Ecv ice Sheets Technical Proposal

11.2IREA-CNR

A laboratory for the processing of remotely sensed data, with particular reference to synthetic aperture radar data (SAR) is available at IREA. It consists of:

• a cluster composed of 16 computing nodes quadcore 64-bit bi-processor characterized by a high degree of scalability and redundancy and intrinsically resistance to fault. The cluster was designed to optimize performance with reference to the specific type of application, processing of stacks of SAR acquisitions, which provides high storage and access to data. The cluster is being upgraded within the framework of the I-AMICA project of the “PON Ricerca e Competitvità 2007-2013” funded by the Ministry of Research and Ministry of Economic Development. The upgraded system will be composed by the beginning of 2014 of 20 computing nodes characterized by high performances in I/O bound and CPU bound processing. Each node consists of two 8-core processors and 64 GB of RAM interfaced to a storage system in a RAID configuration, for a total capacity of 210 TB.

• a software tool for processing of SAR data, made up of algorithms completely developed in-house at IREA, allowing for the generation of maps and time series of deformation with important applications in environmental monitoring. The software is able to process data, starting also from level-0 data (raw data) of almost all past and current SAR sensors (ERS, Envisat, RADARSAT-2, COSMO/SKYMED, TerraSAR-X). It is being upgraded to process data of the future ESA Sentinel-1 sensor.

12Project Management Plan

12.1Project control

The lines of communications which shall operate throughout the project are summarized in Figure .

Figure : Project communication lines

The Project Manager, Dr. J.P. Merryman Boncori, shall act as the main interface with the responsibles for each science team as well as with ESA. Science Lead Dr. Stefano Salvi shall instead be the main interface with national and international bodies, given his involvements with the latter. He shall be avialable to ESA for technical consultations and shall take part in all milestone project meetings.

Team meetings shall be scheduled to be bi-weekly and held via teleconference. They shall involve at least all current WP leaders and, if required, key technical personnel.

The monthly progress reports shall be submitted by Dr. J.P. Merryman Boncori, and shall present the current status of activities in relation to the project schedule. Critical or potentially critical aspects shall be highlighted to provide a basis for discussion with the ESA Technical Officer.

Disagreements within the project team shall be tackled at two levels, in order of increasing hierarchy: science-team level (the responsible shall attempt to find a compomise to the problem and report to the project manager); consortium level (the project manager and science lead shall reach an agreement on the solution, and report to ESA). In the unlikely case that a compromise to the problem cannot be found, the science lead shall take the ultimate decisions, in agreement with the ESA Technical Officer.

12.2Work breakdown structure

The distribution of the WPs among the consortium partners are detailed in Figure .

Figure : Work breakdown structure overview

In the following subsections a Work Package Description (WPD) is provided for each WP.

12.3WP 1000: Requirement Analysis and Product Specification

12.3.1WP 1100: Hazard model generation requirements

PROJECT: CHARMING PHASE:	WP: 1100
WP Title: Hazard model generation requirements Company: INGV WP Manager: C. Meletti Start Event: KO Planned Start Date: KO End Event: PM1 Planned Finish Date: KO+3	Sheet 1 of 1 Issue Ref: 1 Issue Date: 05/11/2013
Inputs: up-date analysis of existing modern methodologies for seismic hazard calculations; collection of existing seismic hazard maps for the chosen areas. Tasks: identifying characteristics to determine appropriate areas for seismic hazard calculations utilizing GPS and InSAR deformations; collection and analysis of existing methods of fault and off-fault long-term slip and strain rate calculations and their possible updates; Identifying appropriate methodologies to convert long-term slip and strain rate in earthquake rates. Outputs: Input to Requirement Baseline (RB)

12.3.2WP 1200: Deformation measurement requirements

PROJECT: CHARMING PHASE:	WP: 1200
WP Title: Deformation measurement requirements Company: INGV WP Manager: J.P. Merryman Boncori Start Event: KO Planned Start Date: KO End Event: PM1 Planned Finish Date: KO+3	Sheet 1 of 1 Issue Ref: 1 Issue Date: 05/11/2013
Inputs: Scientific literature This proposal Tasks: Survey available data sources Establish processing procedures for the development and experimental datasets Outputs: Input to Requirement Baseline (RB)

12.3.3WP 1300: Dataset collection

PROJECT: CHARMING PHASE:	WP: 1300
WP Title: Dataset collection Company: INGV WP Manager: G. Pezzo Start Event: KO Planned Start Date: KO End Event: PM1 Planned Finish Date: KO+3	Sheet 1 of 1 Issue Ref: 1 Issue Date: 05/11/2013
Inputs: This proposal Tasks: Define development and validation test-site(s) Define development and validation dataset Define experimental dataset Acquire development and validation dataset Write development and validation dataset user manual Outputs: Development and validation dataset Development and validation dataset user manual Experimental dataset definition