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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Dr. Periklis Toukiloglou

                                                                 

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LPRS laboratory is one of the four laboratories of the Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering. The scientific staff of the laboratory is very experienced in both education and research in surveying, visualization and interpretation of photographs and digital images for the production of graphs(in digital and analog form), maps and 3D models of the natural environment, urban and individual objects of various sizes and in a variety of different scales. http://perslab.topo.auth.gr/about-el/
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Dr. Maria Tsakiri-Strati is a Professor at the Department of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Faculty of Rural and Surveying Engineering, School of Engineering, AUTH. She is a graduate of the Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, AUTH and she has a doctorate from the same section of AUTH. Expert in Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing and Remote Sensing Environmental Applications. She holds National representation of Greece Commission post Satellite Image Mapping with the International Cartographic Association (ICA Commission on Mapping from Satellite Imagery).

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Dr. Petros Patias is a Professor at the Department of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Faculty of Rural and Surveying Engineering, School of Engineering, AUTh.

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Dr. Tsioukas Vassilios obtained Ph.D in 'Digital Photogrammetry' from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a specialist in Digital Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Laser Scanning and CAD for Surveying Applications, and since 1993 has been working in many national and international Research Programmes. He was an assistant professor in the Dept. of Architectural Engineering in the Democritos University of Thrace (2003-11) and since 2011 is an associate professor in the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is an invited Professor since 2005 in the "Environmental Management" Postgraduate Programme of The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (M.A.I.Ch).

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Dr. Dimitris Kaimaris is Lecturer of Remote Sensing and GIS in the School of Spatial Planning and Development (Eng.), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. He graduated from the School of Rural & Surveying Engineering, AUTh (2000), and later obtained an MSc (2002) and a PhD (2006) in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GIS. Since 2010 he was elected as Faculty member at AUTh. He teaches Remote Sensing, GIS etc. He has participated in numerous research projects, national and international, on Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GIS. He has been instructor and organizer in national and international Conferences, Seminars and Workshops. He has published more than 50 scientific articles in proceedings and peer reviewed journals, and 2 scientific books. He is associate editor in South-Eastern European Journal of Earth Observation and Geomatics.

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Dr. Charalampos Georgiadis is an Assistant professor in the School of Civil Engineering, Division of Geotechnical Engineering AUTH. He received his diploma and Master from the Faculty of Engineering (AUTH), and his Ph.D. from the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine (USA). His research interests include among others Photogrammetry, GIS, Remote Sensing, Laser Scanner, Mobile Mapping systems, and 3D modelling.

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Dr. Aikaterini Stamou received her Diploma in Engineering from the Faculty of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and received her Msc and PhD from the same Faculty, in the field of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. She is a researcher at AUTH PERS-lab (www. perslab.topo.auth.gr) and her research work concerns the environmental use of satellite imagery for sustainable urban planning. Dr Aikaterini Stamou has participated in 5 Research Projects funded by National Organizations and she has many publications in Scientific Conferences and Journals.

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Dr. Georgia Doxani is a graduate of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of the AUTh, from which she also received her MSc and PhD degree. Currently she is a post-doc researcher in European Space Agency and she is involved in studies related to multisensor data fusion and intercomparison of atmospheric correction models.

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Dr. Panagiota Stournara is a graduate of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of the AUTh and holds an MSc degree in Geoinformatics and a PhD degree from the same School. Currently she is a researcher in the Laboratory of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (AUTh). She has been involved in the extraction of parameters for forested areas with the use of satellite imagery and airphotos, as well as with other scientific subjects, such as atmospheric correction, hyperspectral data analysis etc.

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Siachalou Sofia holds a Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) since 2002. In 2003 she received an MSc degree from the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University Geomatics program, entitled "Managing Photogrammetric Production and Remote Sensing in GIS". Currently she is a PhD candidate in the Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, AUTH. Since 2005 she is working at the Paying Agency and Community Aid Guidance and Guarantee Fund (OPEKEPE) of the Ministry of Agriculture, responsible of checks on the payments' eligibility of Community aid, under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union, with site visits and Remote Sensing methods.

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Lampros Papalampros is a graduate of the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006). He has significant experience in scientific areas such as forest management, cadastre, research programs, LIFE programs, environmental subjects, etc., as he is professionally active since 2004. He has acquired an M.Sc. degree in "photogrammetric production and remote sensing management in GIS environment" (2013) from the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2013, he is studying towards a Ph.D. in the area of Geodesy and Surveying, in the field of 3D capturing and monitoring of natural environments through novel technologies.

fri

The mission of the Forest Research Institute is the development of technology and the transfer of knowledge, for the sustainable management of natural terrestrial ecosystems (forest, woodland, and grassland), the qualitative and quantitative increase of forest products and services and the protectionof the natural environment. http://www.fri.gr/index.php/el/arxiki)
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Dr. Kalliopi Radoglou, is a full Professor in Forest Ecophysiology, in the Department of Forestry and Management of Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace. She Obtained MSc and PhD at Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. She has been Coordinator of LIFE project "Verenike" (LIFE09 NAT GR 000326) and scientific responsible for several research programs (FP4- EU-VIT, FP5-FORSEE FP6 PREFOREST and FP7- FunDivEurope, REGENFOREST) She has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals. She was senior researcher at Forest Research Institute NAGREF in Thessaloniki until 2012.

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Dr. Ioannis Meliadis is associate researcher at the Forest Research Institute NAGREF, specializing in remote sensing and geographical information systems. He is a graduate of the School of Forestry and Natural Environment of A.U.Th., and the School of Agriculture, and has o PhD of the first.

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Dr. Nat. Techn. Gavriil Spyroglou was born at 20/07/1965 in Xanthi. Studied for-estry in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated in 1990. In 2004 got his doctoral degree in individual tree growth modelling from Universität für Bodenkul-tur, Wien - Österreich. Since 1993 works in the laboratory of silviculture and has long experience in the field of stand tending, growth and yield and use of allometry on tree biomass estimation and seed quality assessment.

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Dr. Dimitris Zianis obtained his BSc degree in Forestry (TEI Kavalas) and pursued MSc studies in Forest Ecology and Management (University of Aberdeen, UK). His PhD diploma was awarded by the University of Edinburgh and participated in several research projects funded by EU and National bodies. He was a research fellow in the University of Edinburgh, METLA, MAICh, ΑUTH, FRI, ΤΕΙ Kavalas and TEI Larisas. He has published eight scientific papers in international journals. He is also a reviewer in Forest Ecology and Management, Annals of Botany, Silva Fennica, Trees and PLoS for articles related to forest biomass and productivity and on the application of fractal geometry in modeling structure and function of forested ecosystems. At present, he is a civil servant in Naousa Forest Department.

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Dr. Apostolos Karteris

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Dr. Argiro Zerva

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The Remote Sensing Laboratory of the National Technical University was established in 1987 and belongs to the Department of Topography of NTUA. The main purpose of the RSL is to serve the educational needs in the areas of photo-interpretation and remote sensing and their applications in observing and monitoring our planet, in integrated surveys of the natural and socioeconomic environment and in the development of integrated cadastral land information systems.
http://www.survey.ntua.gr/el/departments/topo/topo-labs/rslab.html
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Dr. Vassilia Karathanassi is an Associate Professor in the School of Rural & Surveying Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. She received an MSc in Rural and Surveying Engineer at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), an MSc. in Geography at the University Paris IV, and a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing at NTUA. Since 1998 she has been a faculty member within the Remote Sensing laboratory at NTUA. Her research interests include the processing of multispectral, hyperspectral and SAR data. In recent years, her main research area is SAR and hyperspectral remote sensing. She is the author of more than thirty articles in referred international journals and more than fifty papers in proceedings of international congresses. She has more than 300 citations. She has participated in more than 27 research projects, in many of them as principal researcher and project leader.

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Dr. Konstantinos Karanztalos                                                                                                   

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Dr. Konstantinos Topouzelis

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Dr. Polychronis Kolokoussis is a graduate of the Rural and Surveying Engineering department of the NTUA (1993) and a PhD from the same university (2008). Since 1998, he is a senior research assistant at the Remote Sensing Laboratory, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA. He participates in lectures on Remote Sensing at the under and post graduate level and has significant expertise in the fields of Photo-Interpretation, Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing, their applications and their integration with GIS. During the last years his research interest has been focused on acquisition and processing of hyperspectral and thermal remote sensing imagery as well as object based image analysis (OBIA), with emphasis on techniques used for identifying changes and protecting the natural environment. He has published his work in several international journals and conferences, and has participated in more than twenty National and European Research Projects. He is reviewer in a range of international journals of Springer, Elsevier and Wiley Publications.

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Dr. Charoula Andreou

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PhD candidate Vassilis Andronis holds a Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from NTUA (1991) and he is a PhD candidate of the Remote Sensing Laboratory of the NTUA. Since 1993, he is senior research assistant at the Remote Sensing Laboratory, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA. He participates in lectures on Remote Sensing at the under and post graduate level and has significant expertise in the fields of Photo-Interpretation, Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing, their applications and their integration with GIS. He has publications in several international journals and conferences, and has participated in many National and European Research Projects.

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PhD candidate Dimitrios Sykas is a graduate of the Rural and Surveying Engineering department of the NTUA (2010) and a PhD candidate in the same department. He has been a Research Associate with the Laboratory of Remote Sensing, NTUA, since 2010. Since 2013 he works as a Senior Earth Observation Engineer in Planetek Hellas. His research interest include multi and hyperspectral remote sensing (theory and applications) integrated with algorithm/methodology implementation and optimization. He has worked in more than 12 research and R&D programs.

teistereas

The Department of Forestry &NEA is part of the Karpenisi Branch of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Central Greece. The Department aims at providing top-level education of applied scientific knowledge in Forestry and Natural Environment, while promoting modern forestry technology skills. The department participates actively in European Research Programmes and contributes significantly to applied forest research in Greece.
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Dr. Yannis Raftoyannis is professor at the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management, School of Agricultural Technology and Food Technology and Nutrition of Central Greece University of Applied Sciences. He graduated from the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a doctorate (Ph.D.) from the School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, UK. He teaches courses in Forest Protection and Forest Fires, he has published numerous works in scientific journals and conferences and participates in research projects with a special interest on the protection and restoration of forest ecosystems.

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Dr. Andreas Papadopoulos is professor at the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management, School of Agricultural Technology and Food Technology and Nutrition of Central Greece University of Applied Sciences. He is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with postgraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Aix-Marseille III of France and his research includes forest ecology, dendroecology and dendroclimatology.                                                                                      

metaklitoi

The project involved invited distinguished researchers from abroad, who contributed with their expertise. The transfer of know-how, which took place through meetings and seminars, was a key factor in the innovative nature of the project.                                                                                                                    
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Dr. Steffen Kuntz has more than 20 years of experience in remote sensing and GIS. Working since 1993 in industry his activities included for instance product marketing and project management in Europe, the Near East, South America and Indonesia. Since 2002 he is employed by Infoterra GmbH as senior advisor for geo-information systems and climate change programs (Kyoto Protocol, REDD+, etc). Since 1997 he was Assistant Professor for remote sensing and GIS at the University of Freiburg, Faculty for Forestry and Natural Resources Management. His teaching activities comprise introductory courses in remote sensing and GIS, sampling statistics and ground truth assessment. He gave MSc courses in the Univ. Thessaloniki, MAICh, and at the University of Münster. Since 2005 he is Honourable Professor at the Univ. of Freiburg, Faculty for Forestry and Environmental Science for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.

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Dr. Iain Woodhouse is interested in active remote sensing of forests using physical models, rather than statistical models or classification with the aim of sustaining forests worldwide, with a focus to Africa. This included the first linking of a plant structure model from macroecology with radar simulation models. In the UK, his research focuses on new instruments for forest mapping developed by his own team, highlighted by ESA as "very innovative mission concept". In Africa, he is leading the REDD Horizon project in Malawi. This followed on from my Scotland-Malawi Partnership Academic Fellowship that he undertook during sabbatical in 2007. This research aims to establish the best methods of monitoring forest and their carbon content, combining satellite data and community level measurements. It is within the context of ongoing continental scale mapping of African forests using satellites, which Edinburgh is now developing internationally recognised expertise (with Williams, Ryan, Mitchard, Grace). He is currently a Lecturer in Earth Observation (SL from 2006), University of Edinburgh, UK.

  • February 17th, 2015 – Research group meeting
    The research groups met and discussed the hitherto progress of the project, and the next steps that will lead to the successful project completion.  
  • July 25th, 2014 – Article publishing
    Part of the project’s results were published in the article "Decision Fusion Based on Hyperspectral and Multispectral Satellite Imagery for Accurate Forest Species Mapping" in the Remote Sensing...
  • March 31st, 2014 - Article publishing
    Part of the project’s results were published in the article"Mediterranean forest species mapping using classification of Hyperion imagery" in the Geocarto International journal...
  • February 20th, 2014 - Article publishing
    Part of the project’s results were published in the article "A Comparative Analysis of EO-1 Hyperion, Quickbird and Landsat TM Imagery for Fuel Type Mapping of a Typical Mediterranean Landscape" in...
  • December 11th, 2013 – Workshop
    As part of the project, FMRS organized a workshop called 'Active Earth Observation', with both theoretical and practical parts. The training was held in English by Prof. Dr. Iain Woodhouse(University...
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