## 1 Introduction  
The change in the energy model and the growing technology and environmental awareness are, currently, the main challenges facing society, all of which impose the need for a safe and sustainable supply of mineral resources, especially critical metals. Over the last few decades, several principles and strategies to promote sustainability through the whole mining cycle have been proposed by organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), and notably the European Union [1; 2; 3; 4; 5]. These actions are intended to establish a commitment to resource development in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. In addition to this, the prominence of the Social License to Operate (SLO) for any mining project can determine its viability. In this context, the mining industry must minimize its impact, improve transparency, and work to ensure the safe and sustainable supply of mineral resources that social challenges require. Ground motion is one of the major hazards that the mining industry confronts. Earthquworks, digging, and pumping affect ground mechanical integrity that may cause subsidence, landslides, and collapses; disasters that often have serious consequences, economically,environmentally, and in terms of human life. Typically, ground stability monitoring uses ground-based instruments such as inclinometers, extensometers, and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers, which are of very high accuracy but provide discreet measurements as full coverage with 1D sensors is not feasible. By contrast, satellites allow extensive monitoring with each acquisition, covering areas where other sensors do not reach: intermediate and peripheral zones of a terrestrial network, zones of limited or dangerous access, or zones that were considered of low priority for monitoring. Furthermore, satellites are reliable, autonomous, non-invasive, and provide high-quality unbiased data repeatedly at low cost, all of which are ideal characteristics for a monitoring system. For these reasons, we have been working in recent years to promote the use of radar satellites, especially Sentinel-1, as a complementary tool to improve the monitoring capacity of mining stakeholders. In orbit since 2014, Sentinel-1 has shaken up the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) world with a wide range of capabilities, especially long interferometric series (InSAR). The Sentinel mission belongs to the Copernicus program, which is the result of a collaboration between the European Commission and the European Space Agency. Sentinel aims to provide free access to Earth's global coverage at a medium resolution and high revisit time, up to 6 days with a constellation of two satellites (Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B). It is worth mentioning that since December 2021 a technical anomaly is affecting the Sentinel-1B SAR electronic subsystem that is causing the interruption of data acquisition. At the time of writing this article, it is unknown if the satellite will be able to resume its operation plan. For this reason, an effort is underway to advance the launch of Sentinel-1C to the first half of 2023. Sentinel-1 carries on board a C-band radar sensor that, although not designed for high-resolution studies, we will see that it is a precious tool for continuous ground motion monitoring at a mining scale. Several studies show the ability of Sentinel-1 to effectively measure surface deformation at an engineering scale [6; 7; 8]. However, this technology is not normalized as a continuous ground instability monitoring tool due to the complex processing and high computational demands required. Our project InTarsis aims to bridge this gap and improve the monitoring capacity of the mining sector by standardizing the use of Sentinel-1 as a monitoring tool. Our strategy is to devise an algorithm that automates the processing of Sentinel-1 data, providing to the end-user a regular update of the surface deformation in the mining area.