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In recent years, SAR interferometry has become one of the most popular emerging techniques for the assessment of ground displacements, and, as such, it is of great interest as a possible operational tool for civil protection institutions having to deal with landslide risk. The paper presents some of the results obtained in northern Italy during a research project aimed at testing the potentiality of the application of C‐band space‐borne interferometry and Ku‐band ground based interferometry during different specific civil protection activities. Main research objectives were the detection of the movements of complex earth and rock slides affecting built‐up areas during the 1990s, and the near real‐time monitoring of a reactivated rotational earth slide over an emergency period of 15 days. Results of space‐borne interferometry did qualitatively fit with the geological interpretation of the mass movements and with ground …