Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing

FMRS laboratory carries out graduate and postgraduate teaching and is involved in research in the fields of environmental monitoring and management of natural ecosystems by using modern analysis methods and techniques including Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems, and Digital Photogrammetry. The Laboratory also organises lectures and seminars, national and international conferences, and encourages scientific cooperation and exchange with corresponding laboratories of Greek and foreign organisations, institutes, universities, companies and other public and private enterprises. http://fmrs.web.auth.gr/

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	Dr. Ioannis Gitas is Associate Professor in the School of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment of A.U.Th. He is a graduate of A.U.Th. with postgraduate and doctoral studies in the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge. He is the head of the special interest group of the European Union Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL FFSIG), deputy editor of the journal Remote Sensing, editor of special issues of international scientific journals with a high impact factor, author of a large number of articles, and a member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He has previously worked at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) as head of the Environmental Management Department.
	Dr. Dimitris Karamanolis is associate professor in the School of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment of A.U.Th., and director of the Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing. He is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a doctorate from the same university. He has a long research experience in forest management.
	Dr. George Mallinis completed his doctoral thesis in 2006 at the Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing of A.U.Th., specializing in Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing of forest ecosystems. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental and Natural Resources of D.U.Th. He has published research papers in international journals on issues concerning the application of remote sensing and GIS the environment and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He has participated in the implementation of several international research programs.
	Dr. Christos Karydas studied agriculture, specializing in the management of soil resources (MSc) and has a PhD in geoinformatics. He works as a leading scientific researcher in remote sensing projects in the natural and agricultural environments, including land use mapping, soil erosion modeling, mapping biomass in forest ecosystems , evaluation cultivation parameters, assessing environmental risks and impacts, etc. He also teaches, Remote Sensing, GIS and Soil Resources Management in higher education institutions, such as the Environmental Management Department of MAICh and the College 'Perrotis' American Farm School.
	Dr. Dimitris Stavrakoudis is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, A.U.Th. and has a PhD from the same school. He works as a researcher in the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of A.U.Th., and his research interests include fuzzy systems, recurrent fuzzy neural networks, remote sensing and genetic algorithms.
	Dr. Georgia Galidaki is a graduate of the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of A.U.Th., with post-graduate and doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Trieste, respectively. She works as a researcher in the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of A.U.Th., and her research interests include remote sensing, environmental monitoring, hyperspectral analysis, and land cover and forest species mapping.
	Dr. Periklis Toukiloglou