European Supersites Coordination Workshop Rapporteurs' Reports Session 1: Key Technologies for the Monitoring of Geologically Active Regions Prone to Natural Hazards

In the Supersites endeavour, Earth Observation (EO) is a key contribution with many national and european missions, with an important research contribution in the operable frame of GMES/Copernicus. Although the projects are incubators with the data and the geo-information they use or generate, they provide resources of key value to users for both response and prevention purposes. In particular, a given Supersite will use or generate monitoring data and information that includes unique capabilities (e.g. precise terrain deformation measurements of seismic or volcanic hazards). Users are encouraged to provide requirements and feedback in these incubation activities. While the three EC Supersites projects are R&D-related and the Supersites users primarily are science users, there is a need to identify operational requirements that will be the targets of the projects.