Abstract The Earth Observation (EO) techniques are becoming increasingly important in risk
management activities not only for natural hazards and natural disaster monitoring but also
to ride out industrial and natech accidents. The latest developments in the aerospace
industry such as sensors miniaturization and high spatial and temporal resolution missions,
devoted to monitoring areas of specific interest, have made the use of EO techniques more
efficiently and are vready to be used in near real time conditions. This paper summarize the …