Eolo: software for the automatic on-line treatment and analysis of GPS data for environmental monitoring

Geodetic measurements based on GPS satellite technology allow monitoring of the state of deformation with great precision. Geodetic studies through GPS have proven to be of strategic importance in risk evaluation of various phenomena such as landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes or for the evaluation of the stability of large structures (dykes, bridges, etc.). For control and surveillance purposes, continuous monitoring with real-time acquisition and analysis of data is required. We have developed a software, called Eolo, which allows the management of data from a GPS network using automatic acquisition. The software is the fruit of 5 years experience of working with continuous GPS and has been designed with a modular object-based structure to be extremely flexible and adaptable to different needs. The software allows treatment of raw data, their storage in a database, calculation of the main strain parameters, and the visualisation of all the results. In this sense the software is a powerful tool in the field of environmental monitoring with GPS geodetic techniques. The software is in use for the continuous monitoring of active Sicilian volcanoes. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]