Spatial Analysis

Geographic Information Systems & Remote Sensing.

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ABOUT

The research in the Spatial analysis, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (SAGISRS) group concentrates on the development of mathematical, statistical and computational tools and methods for generating, analyzing, managing and visualizing geographic (spatial) data. This is a rapidly developing research area often referred to as, Geoinformatics and/or Geotechnology with multiple applications in urban and regional analysis, environmental analysis, climatology, urban climate and air quality, etc.

The tools and methods the group develops are useful for public and private organizations to analyze spatial information and formulate rational economic development, social and environmental policies and evaluate alternative mitigation plans. Specifically, the group develops:

Spatial decision support systems using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) methodologies and mathematical models simulating various environmental and urban processes,
Remote sensing methodologies for: extracting geo-information products and indicators from satellite observations; adjusting machine learning algorithms to estimate sub-pixel fractions; downscaling bio-geophysical parameters derived from satellites synergies; analyzing long time series of satellite images (Big Data) in cloud computing environment; and analyzing UAV hyperspectral and thermal imagery,
Urban climate methods to analyze urban form and function, by combining satellite derived surface parameters with in-situ observations of urban heat fluxes and CO2 emissions from micrometeorological towers (Eddy Covariance and Net Radiation equipment) and standard meteorological and air quality variables from Wireless Sensors Networks.
Methodologies for the analysis of the organization of urban areas with respect the distribution of the land uses and the built-up densities, the socio-economic characteristics of the population, the traffic patterns in the street network etc.
Tools for the visualization and management of digital maps on the web.

Group members include researchers with a wide spectrum of expertise from quantitative geography, remote sensing, statistics, applied informatics, atmospheric physics and urban and regional planning. The research effort has been supported from grants from competitive EU projects and grants from Greek public organizations. EU research programs the group has participated include H2020, INTERREG, ERA.Net, FP7, LIFE, ESA and many others. Funding has been also obtained from the General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece (GSRT), the Hellenic Statistical Authority, the Region of Crete, the Athens Urban Transport Organization, the Ministry of Health, The Municipality of Heraklion and others.

The group was formed in the early 1990’s and until recently its name was “Regional Analysis Division”. Dr. Poulicos Prastacos is head of the group. Dr. Nektarios Chrysoulakis is the scientific director of the research on earth observation.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Urban Analysis: In the last fifty years urban areas worldwide are growing rapidly. Concentration of people leads to easy connectivity, economies of scale and higher productivity, increased buildup densities and changes in lifestyles, it has however, adverse impacts on the environment. Some of the urban analysis research topics studied in the group include:

The distribution of land uses and buildup densities to identify urban form and sprawl characteristics,
Social area analysis, that is the analysis of the socio-economic characteristics of the population to identify neighborhoods with common characteristics, the location of segments of the population in need, etc.,
Urban growth models,
Urban metabolism and the way it affects consumption of various resources,
Urban climate research focusing on: analyzing satellite and UAV observations to derive urban surface morphology, cover and fabric; identifying Local Climate Zones, developing footprint models to deal with urban surface anisotropy; monitoring urban energy balance; analyzing urban heat island, thermal comfort and energy efficiency; analyzing Eddy Covariance observation to estimate CO2 emissions and adjusting methods for pollutants dispersion in the urban boundary layer.
The concentration of air particles in urban areas,
The analysis of traffic patterns in the street networks of urban areas

Spatial decision support system: SDSS are information systems for supporting decision making and have extensive applications in environmental planning, resources allocation, business decision making and other fields. Through an integrated and user-friendly environment, they bring together simulation models, GIS databases, impact assessment methodologies and decision rules. The research of the group concentrates on the integration of simulation models with the GIS systems, the development of various spatial datasets and the design of the end user interface. Application areas studied in the group include:

Simulation of natural disasters such as floods and forest fires,
Leaks detection in municipal water distribution systems,
Mapping noise levels in urban areas.

The Remote Sensing Laboratory: The Remote Sensing Laboratory (http://rslab.gr) concentrates in the field of Earth Observation (EO) and its area of research is the study of environmental phenomena and problems. The Lab operates a Wireless Sensors Network and a Micrometeorological Tower carrying Eddy Covariance and Net Radiation Infrastructures in the city of Heraklion. The Lab owns computational facilities and also it has access to cloud computing Infrastructures, such as Google Earth Engine and European Space Agency Urban-TEP, to analyze long time series of high spatial resolution satellite observations (Big Data). In the last ten years, the Lab has played a leading role in the domain of Urban Remote Sensing at European level, by coordinating relevant FP7, ERA.Net and H2020 projects, by publishing several articles in peer-review journals annually and by organizing and chairing Urban Remote Sensing sessions in the frame of big symposia, such as SPIE and JURSE. The focus of the activities of the Lab are on the analysis of both urban and natural environments.

Concerning urban environment, the main focus is on urban climate and on urban planning, with emphasis on climate change mitigation and adaptation activities. More specifically, areas of research include the estimation of energy, water and carbon exchanges between the surface and the atmosphere. Several city typologies and climatically meaningful urban zoning systems are derived based on satellite observations. EO is used to monitor the dynamic changes of urban surface cover, fabric and morphology, providing quantitative estimates of relevant surface and atmospheric parameters, as well as, environmental indicators for supporting urban planning and management and assessing sustainability.
Concerning natural environment, the Lab activities focus on environmental monitoring and development of methods for exploiting Earth Observation in improving future ecosystems, ecosystems services, as well as in supporting risk management for natural hazards.

Spatial spatiotemporal statistical modeling: The goal of spatial/spatiotemporal statistical modeling is to analyze datasets with spatial/spatiotemporal information to identify the underlying relationships and patterns and to compute predictions of unknown quantities in space and time. Bayesian space-time models, spatial econometrics, eigenvector filtering, and multivariate analysis are some of the techniques used. Areas of applications include:

Short-term traffic forecasting and incident detection,
Epidemiology,
Analysis of environmental data,
Geodemography,
Regional economics.

Spatial Analysis

Geographic Information Systems & Remote Sensing.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

A. ONGOING PROJECTS

EPIRROH: Information system for monitoring the leaks in municipal water systems (2017 - 2019). The objective of the project is the development of an information system for monitoring the Municipal Water Supply Network Monitoring System.
PERAN : Innovative research actions for environmental research and development (2017 - 2020). PERAN is a research program on environmental issues in which all FORTHs institutes are participating.
POLITEIA II: Cultural Heritage - Technology (2017 - 2020). POLITEIA ΙΙ is an integrated interdisciplinary research action for the development and the best use of innovative technologies in the domain of Cultural Heritage.
URBANFLUXES: EU-funded H2020 URBan ANthropogenic heat FLUX from Earth observation Satellites is a Space project on “New ideas for Earth-relevant space applications” aims to investigate the potential of Earth Observation (EO) to retrieve anthropogenic heat fluxes.
THINKNATURE: EU-funded H2020 project ThinkNature is developing of a multi-stakeholder communication platform that will support the understanding and the promotion of nature based solutions in local, regional, EU and International level.
ECOPOTENTIAL: The EU-funded H2020 Improving future Εcosystem benefits through Earth Observations is a large project that focuses its activities on a targeted set of internationally recognised Protected Areas, blending Earth Observations from remote sensing and field measurements, data analysis and modelling of current and future ecosystem conditions and services.
BRIDGE: The EU-funded FP7 sustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism aimed at bridging the gap between bio-physical sciences and urban planners and to illustrate the advantages of accounting for environmental issues on a routine basis in design decisions.
SEN4RUS: The ERA.Net-RUS Plus project SEN4RUS (exploiting Sentinels for supporting urban planning applications at city and regional levels in Russia) aims at taking into account the specific requirements of spatial and urban planning in Russia to develop indicators that effectively and efficiently exploit the information content provided by Copernicus Sentinels mass data streams in support of city and regional planning.
LIFE IGIC: The Life IGIC project will develop Green Infrastructure (GI) and supporting Sustainable Farming Methods in pilot olive orchards, in Western Messara plain, south Crete, Greece.
GEOURBAN: The ERA.Net-RUS project Earth Observation in sUstainable uRBan plAnning & maNagement aimed to bridge the gap between EO scientists and urban planners by demonstrating the ability of current and future EO systems to depict parameters of urban structure and urban environmental quality over large areas at detailed level .
FLIRE: The EU-funded LIFE+ project Floods and Fire risk assessment and management was a demonstration project aiming to the development of an integrated Web-based Decision Support System (DSS) for both flash floods and forest fires risk assessment and management.
TAHOMA: Earth Observation for Surface Energy Balance) was a bilateral collaboration between Greece and France, aimed at reviewing existing (Earth Observation) EO systems and state-of-the-art methods to identify their capabilities and limitations in supporting Surface Energy Balance (SEB) modelling.
PW: Precipitable Water was a bilateral collaboration between Greece and China, aimed at providing accurate precipitable water spatial distribution maps over Greece, capable of being used in regional and local studies.

B. COMPLETED PROJECTS

GEOURBAN: The ERA.Net-RUS project Earth Observation in sUstainable uRBan plAnning & maNagement aimed to bridge the gap between EO scientists and urban planners by demonstrating the ability of current and future EO systems to depict parameters of urban structure and urban environmental quality over large areas at detailed level .
URBANFLUXES: URBan ANthrpogenic heat FLUX from Earth observation Satellites (2015 - 2017) . EU-funded H2020 URBan ANthropogenic heat FLUX from Earth observation Satellites is a Space project on “New ideas for Earth-relevant space applications” aims to investigate the potential of Earth Observation (EO) to retrieve anthropogenic heat fluxes.
PROgRESSIon: PRotOtyping the Retrievals of Energy fluxes and Soil Surface moIsture (2011 - 2013). Understanding Earth system natural processes, as well as the interactions of Earth system components with anthropogenic activities - particularly so in the context of global climate change - has been recognised by the global scientific community as a very urgent and important research direction requiring attention for further investigation.
BRIDGE: The EU-funded FP7 sustainaBle uRban plannIng Decision support accountinG for urban mEtabolism aimed at bridging the gap between bio-physical sciences and urban planners and to illustrate the advantages of accounting for environmental issues on a routine basis in design decisions.

PUBLICATIONS

2018
- Christiaan Hummel, Dimitris Poursanidis, Daniel Orenstein, Michael Elliott, Mihai Cristian Adamescu, Constantin Cazacu, Guy Ziv, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Jaap van der Meer, Herman Hummel,Protected Area management: Fusion and confusion with the ecosystem services approach, Science of The Total Environment, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.033.
- Chrysoulakis, N., Grimmond, S., Feigenwinter, C,. Lindberg, F., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J., Marconcini, M., Mitraka, Z., Stagakis, S., Crawford, B., Olofson, F., Landier, L., Morrison W., and Parlow, E., 2018. Urban energy exchanges monitoring from space, Scientific Reports, 8, 11498; doi:10.1038/s41598-018-29873-x .
- Feigenwinter, C., Vogt, R., Parlow, E., Lindberg, F., Marconcini, M., Del Frate, F. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2018. Spatial Distribution of Sensible and Latent Heat Flux in the City of Basel (Switzerland). IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 99, 1-7; doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2018.2807815 .
- Panagiotakis, E., Chrysoulakis, N., Charalampopoulou, V. and Poursanidis, D. 2018. Validation of Pleiades Tri-Stereo DSM in Urban Areas. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 7, 118.
- Pasetto D, Arenas‐Castro S, Bustamante J, et al. Integration of satellite remote sensing data in ecosystem modelling at local scales: Practices and trends. Methods Ecol Evol. 2018;9:1810–1821. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13018x .
- Poursanidis, D., Topouzelis, K., Chrysoulakis, N. 2018. International Journal of Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1490974 .
- Prastacos, P., Lagarias, A., 2018. Urban form and transportation infrastructure in European cities, Proceedings Conference on sustainable urban mobility 2018, Skiathos, May 2018.
- Traganos, D., Poursanidis, D., Aggarwal, B., Chrysoulakis, N., Reinartz, P. 2018. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 10, 859. .
- Traganos, D.; Aggarwal, B.; Poursanidis, D.; Topouzelis, K.; Chrysoulakis, N.; Reinartz, P. Towards Global-Scale Seagrass Mapping and Monitoring Using Sentinel-2 on Google Earth Engine: The Case Study of the Aegean and Ionian Seas. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1227. doi: 10.3390/rs10081227 .
2017
- Al Bitar A., Landier L., Guilleron J., Lauret N., Gastellu-Etchegorry J.P., Tiangang Y., Feigenwinter C., Mitraka Z. and Chrysoulakis N., 2017. Assessing Urban Canopies 3D Radiative and Energy Budgets with Remote Sensing and DART Model. In Proceeding of Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event JURSE 2017, held in Dubai, UAE, March 30 - April 1 ( 978-1-5090-5808-2/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE).
- Benas, N., Chrysoulakis, N. and Cartalis, C. 2017. Trends of urban surface temperature and heat island characteristics in the Mediterranean. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 130, 807 - 816; doi:10.1007/s00704-016-1905-8 .
- Chrysoulakis N., Marconcini M., Gastellu-Etchegorry J.-P., Grimmond C.S.B., Feigenwinter C., Lindberg F., Del Frate F., Klostermann J., Mitraka Z., Esch T., Landier L., Gabey, A., Parlow E. and Olofson, F., 2017. Anthropogenic Heat Flux Estimation from Space: Results of the second phase of the URBANFLUXES Project. In Proceeding of Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event JURSE 2017, held in Dubai, UAE, March 30 - April 1 (978-1-5090-5808-2/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE).
- Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Vogt, R., Schmutz, M., Chrysoulakis, N., Lindberg, F., Marconcini, M. and Del Frate, F., 2017. Spatial Distribution of Sensible and Latent Heat Flux in the URBANFLUXES case study city Basel (Switzerland). In Proceeding of Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event JURSE 2017, held in Dubai, UAE, March 30 - April 1 (978-1-5090-5808-2/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE).
- Gastellu-Etchegorry, J. P., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Landier, L., Kallel, A., Malenovský, Z., Bitar, A. A., Aval, J., Benhmida, S., Qi, J., Medjdoub, G., Guilleux, J., Chavanon, E., Cook, B., Morton, D., Chrysoulakis, N. and Mitraka, Z., 2017. DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10, 2640 - 2649. . Weblink to the Article
- Gastellu-Etchegorry, J. P., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Landier, L., Kallel, A., Malenovský, Z., Bitar, A. A., Aval, J., Benhmida, S., Qi, J., Medjdoub, G., Guilleux, J., Chavanon, E., Cook, B., Morton, D., Chrysoulakis, N. and Mitraka, Z., 2017. DART: Recent Advances in Remote Sensing Data Modeling With Atmosphere, Polarization, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10, 2640 - 2649; doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2685528 .
- Mitraka, Z., Feigenwinter, C., Chrysoulakis, N., Parlow, E., Grimmond, S., Lindberg, F., Wicki, A. and Marconcini, M., 2017. Towards discriminating between zones with different thermal behaviour in cities. In Proceeding of Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event JURSE 2017, held in Dubai, UAE, March 30 - April 1 (978-1-5090-5808-2/17/$31.00 ©2017 IEEE)..
- Parastatidis, D., Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N. and Abrams, M., 2017. Online Global Land Surface Temperature Estimation from Landsat. Remote Sensing, 9, 1208; doi:10.3390/rs9121208 .
- Poursanidis, D. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2017. Remote Sensing, natural hazards and the contribution of ESA Sentinels missions. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 6, 25 - 38..
- Poursanidis, D. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2017. Remote Sensing, natural hazards and the contribution of ESA Sentinels missions. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 6, 25 - 38; doi:10.1016/j.rsase.2017.02.001 .
- Prastacos, P., Lagarias, A. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2017. Using the Urban Atlas dataset for estimating spatial metrics. Methodology and application in urban areas of Greece, Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography, Regional and Urban Planning, Document 815, doi: 10.4000/cybergeo.28051.
- Tzelidi, D., Stagakis, S., Mitraka, Z., Lantzanakis, G., Panagiotakis, E. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2017. Spectral Unmixing of Sentinel-2 observations based on urban material endmembers from WorldView II imagery. In Proc. of 10th EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) SIG Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop, held in Zurich, Switzwrland, April 19 – 21.
2016
- Beloconi, A., Kamarianakis, Y. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2016. Estimating urban PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations, based on synergistic MERIS/AATSR aerosol observations, land cover and morphology data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 172, 148 - 164..
- Benas, N., Chrysoulakis, N. and Cartalis, C. 2016. Trends of urban surface temperature and heat island characteristics in the Mediterranean. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, doi:10.1007/s00704-016-1905-8..
- Chrysoulakis N., Marconcini M., Gastellu-Etchegorry J.-P., Grimmond C.S.B., Feigenwinter C., Lindberg F., Del Frate F., Klostermann J., Mitraka Z., Esch T., Landier L., Gabey, A., Parlow E. and Olofson, F., 2016. Anthropogenic Heat Flux Estimation from Space: Results of the first phase of the URBANFLUXES Project. In: Proc. SPIE 10008, Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments, 100080C (Edinburg, United Kingdom, September 26-29), doi: 10.1117/12.2239411..
- Chrysoulakis, N. and Grimmond, C.S.B., 2016. Understanding and reducing the anthropogenic heat emission. In: Santamouris, M. and Kolokotsa, D. (Eds)., 2016. Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 978–0‐415–71213–2, pp. 27 - 39..
- Chrysoulakis, N., Feigenwinter, C., Triantakonstantis, D., Penyevskiy, I., Tal, A., Parlow, E., Fleishman, G., Düzgün, S., Esch, T. and Marconcini, M., 2016. A Conceptual List of Indicators for Urban Planning and Management Based on Earth Observation. In: Etingoff, K. (Ed.), 2016. Urban Ecology. Strategies for Green Infrastructure and Land Use. Apple Academic Press, Inc., Oakville, Canada. ISBN-13: 978-1-77188-282-8, pp. 285 - 313..
- Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Gastellu-Etchegorry J.-P., Grimmond, C.S.B., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Del Frate, F., Klostermann, J., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., Al Bitar, A., Gabey, A., Parlow, E. and Olofson, F., 2016. Anthropogenic Heat Flux Estimation from Space: The URBANFLUXES Project. In Wong and Jusuf (Eds): CD-ROM of Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island, organiozed by National University of Singapore, in Singapore, May 30-31 and June .
- Chrysoulakis, N., Marconcini, M., Sazonova, A., Tal, A., Dusgun, S., Parlow, E., Charalampopoulou, V., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., Cavur, M. and Feigenwinter, C., 2016. Copernicus Sentinels for Urban Planning in Russia: The SEN4RUS Project. In Wong and Jusuf (Eds): CD-ROM of Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island, organiozed by National University of Singapore, in Singapore, May 30-31 and June 1..
- Gkadolou Eleni, Prastacos Poulicos, 2016. Documentation of cultural heritage sites using the INSPIRE Directive. Fourth International Conference of Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment. Paphos, Cyprus, April 4‐8, 2016..
- Kochilakis, G., Poursanidis, D., Chrysoulakis, N., Varella, V., Kotroni, V., Eftychidis, G., Lagouvardos, K., Papathanasiou, C., Karavokyros., G., Aivazoglou, M., Makropoulos, C. and Mimikou, M., 2016. A web based DSS for the management of floods and wildfires (FLIRE) in urban and periurban areas. Environmental Modelling & Software, 86, 111 - 115..
- Kochilakis, G., Poursanidis, D., Chrysoulakis, N., Varella, V., Kotroni, V., Eftychidis, G., Lagouvardos, K., Papathanasiou, C., Karavokyros., G., Aivazoglou, M., Makropoulos, C. and Mimikou, M., 2016. FLIRE DSS: A web tool for the management of floods and wildfires in urban and periurban areas. Open Geosciences, 8, 711 - 727..
- Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Lauret, N., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Aubert, S., Mitraka, Z., Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Heldens, W., Kotthaus, S., Grimmond, S., Lindberg, F. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2016. 3D Modeling of radiative transfer and Energy Balance in Urban Canopies combined to Remote Sensing Acquisitions. In Proceeding of IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2016), held in Beijing, China, July 10 - 15..
- Landier, L., Lauret, N., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Al Bitar, A., Mitraka, Z., Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Heldens, W., Kotthaus, S., Grimmond, S., Lindberg, F. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2016. Calibration of DART Radiative Transfer Model with Satellite Images for Simulating Albedo and Thermal Irradiance Images and 3D Radiative Budget of Urban Environment. In Proc. Of 36th EARSeL Symposium, held in Bonn, Germany, June 20-24.
- Landier, L., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Al Bitar, A., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J-P., Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2016. Remote Sensing Studies of Urban Canopies: 3D Radiative Transfer Modeling. In: Ergen, M. (Ed)., 2016. Sustainable Urbanization. Environmental Sciences. InTech, Rijeka, Croatia. ISBN 978-953-51-2653-9, pp. 227 - 247.. Weblink to the Article
- Lantzanakis, G., Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2016. Comparison of Physical & Image based Atmospheric Correction Methods for Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery. In Proc. SPIE 9688, Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2016), 96880A, doi:10.1117/12.2242889..
- Lantzanakis, G., Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2016. Comparison of physically & image based atmospheric correction methods for Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. In: Karacostas, T. and Nastos, P. (Eds): Perspectives on Atmospheric Sciences, e-book of Contributions of the 13th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatology and Physics of the Atmosphere (COMECAP 2016), ISBN 978-3-319-35095-0, pp. 255 - 261..
- Mitraka, Z., Doxani, G., Del Frate, F. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2016. Uncertainty Estimation of Local-Scale Land Surface Temperature Products Over Urban Areas Using Monte Carlo Simulations. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 13, 917 - 921.
2015
- Beloconi, A., Benas, N., Chrysoulakis, N. and Kamarianakis, Y., 2015. Combined use of satellite observations with urban surface characteristics to estimate PM concentrations by employing mixed-effect models. In Proceedings of the ATMOS2015 – Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications, organized by European Space Agency and University of Crete, in Heraklion, Crete, June 8 - 12. Read copy of the Article
- Beloconi, A., Kamarianakis, Y., and Chrysoulakis, N., 2015. Urban aerosol concentrations from MERIS/AATSR synergy: a preparatory study for Sentinel 3. In Book of Abstracts of the Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2015) Conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, November 4 - 5, p. 33. Read copy of the Article
- Benas, N. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2015. Estimation of the land surface albedo changes in the broader Mediterranean area, based on 12 years satellite observations. Remote Sensing, 7, 16150 – 16163. Read copy of the Article
- Benas, N. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2015. Land Surface Temperature and Surface Urban Heat Island characteristics and trends in 17 Mediterranean cities. In Book of Abstracts of the RSCy2015: Third International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment, held in Pafos, Cyprus, March 16 - 19. Read copy of the Article
- Benas, N., Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., Marconcini, M., Esch, T. and Lantzanakis, G., 2015. Global estimates of Urban Surface Albedo time series with the use of cloud computing. In Book of Abstracts of the Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2015) Conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, November 4 - 5, pp. 32 - 33. Read copy of the Article
- Cartalis, C., Stathopoulou, M., Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2015. Use of Earth Observation to support urban modelling parameterization in BRIDGE. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2015. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 58 - 68.
- Chatzaki Maria and Dimitris Poursanidis. Macrothele cretica Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Hexathelidae): a first approach to re-evaluate its conservation status, pg. 102. In "Poulakakis N., Antoniou, A., Karameta, E., Psonis, N., Vardinoyannis K. (eds). 2015. Abstracts of the International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions, 13th ICZEGAR, 7-11October 2015, Irakleio, Crete, Greece. Hellenic Zoological Society, 203 pages. Read copy of the Article
- Chatzigeorgiou Giorgos, Wanda Plaiti, Dimitris Poursanidis, Christos A3rvanitidis. Analyses of hard-bottom benthic communities in Crete, pg. 103. In "Poulakakis N., Antoniou, A., Karameta, E., Psonis, N., Vardinoyannis K. (eds). 2015. Abstracts of the International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions, 13th ICZEGAR, 7-11October 2015, Irakleio, Crete, Greece. Hellenic Zoological Society, 203 pages. Read copy of the Article
- Chrysoulakis N., Esch T., Gastellu-Etchegorry J-P., Grimmond C.S.B., Parlow E., Lindberg F., Del Frate F., Klostermann J. and Mitraka Z., 2015. A novel approach for anthropogenic heat flux estimation from space. In Book of Abstracts of the 36th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment: “Observing the Earth, Monitoring the Change,Sharing the Knowledge”, held in Berlin, Germany, May 11 - 15. Read copy of the Article
- Chrysoulakis N., Esch T., Gastellu-Etchegorry J.-P., Grimmond C.S.B., Parlow E., Lindberg F., Del Frate F., Klostermann J., Mitraka Z., Heldens W., Albitar A. and Feigenwinter C., 2015. A novel approach for anthropogenic heat flux estimation from space. In Proceeding of ICUC9 – 9th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment, organized by Meteo-Fance in Toulouse, July 20 -24. Read copy of the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., 2015. The BRIDGE approach. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2015. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 18 - 26.
- Chrysoulakis, N., and Mitraka, Z., 2015. Copernicus Sentinels observations as a tool to evaluate NBS implementation. In Proceedings of the European Conferences on Biodiversity and Climate Change (ECBCC 2015): Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change in Urban Areas and their Rural Surroundings - Linkages between Science, Policy and Practice. Joint European Conference held by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and the European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies in co-o Read copy of the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2015. Conclusions. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2015. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 209 - 212.
- Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2015. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114
- Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens W., Gastellu-Etchegorry J.-P., Grimmond C.S.B., Feigenwinter C., Lindberg F., Del Frate F., Klostermann J., Mitraka Z., Esch T., Albitar A., Gabey, A., Parlow E., and Olofson F., 2015. The URBANFLUXES Project: Using satellite data to estimate anthropogenic heat flux. In Book of Abstracts of the Rome2015 - Science Symposium on Climate, hosted by FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in Roma, Italy, November 19 - 20. Read copy of the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Grimmond, C.S.B., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Del Frate, F., Klostermann, J., Mitraka Z., Esch T., Albitar, A., Gabey, A., Parlow, E. and Olofson, F., 2015. Urban Energy Budget Estimation from Sentinels: The URBANFLUXES Project. In Book of Abstracts of the Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2015) Conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, November 4 - 5, p. 16. Read copy of the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., Marconcini, M., Sazonova, A., Tal, A., Dusgun, S., Parlow, E., Charalampopoulou, V., Mitraka, Z., Esch, T., Cavur, M. and Feigenwinter, C., 2015. Copernicus Sentinels for Urban Planning in Russia: The SEN4RUS Project. In Book of Abstracts of the Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2015) Conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, November 4 - 5, p. 31. Read copy of the Article
- Corsini-Foka Maria, Argyro Zenetos, Fabio Crocetta, Melih Ertan Çinar, Ferah Koçak, Daniel Golani, Stelios Katsanevakis, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Elizabeth Cook, Carlo Froglia, Maria Triandaphyllou, Sami Lakkis, Gerasimos Kondylatos, Elena Tricarico, Ante Zuljevic, Mariana Almeida, Frederico Cardigos, Senem Çağlar, Furkan Durucan, António M.D. Fernandes, Jasmine Ferrario, Ines Haberle, Paraskevi Louizidou, Josif Makris, Martina Marić, Dragoş Micu, Carmen Mifsud, Chris Nall, Eleni Kytinou, Dimitris Weblink to the Article
- Crocetta F, D Agius, P Balistreri, M Bariche, YK Bayhan, M Cakir, S Ciriaco, M Corsini-Foka, A Deidun, R El Zrelli, D Ergüden, J Evans, M Ghelia, M Giavasi, P Kleitou, G Kondylatos, L Lipej, C Mifsud, Y Özvarol, A Pagano, P Portelli, D Poursanidis, L Rabaoui, PJ Schembri, E Taşkin, F Tiralongo, A Zenetos. New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October 2015). Mediterranean Marine Science, 16 (3): 682-702. Read copy of the Article
- Crocetta Fabio, Dimitrios Poursanidis, Lionello Paolo Tringali, Biodiversity of sea slugs and shelled relatives (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Cretan Archipelago (Greece), with taxonomic remarks on selected species, Quaternary International, Weblink to the Article
- Doxani, G., Mitraka, Z., Gascon, F., Goryl, P., & Bojkov, B. (2015). An Unmixing-based Model for the integration of multi-sensor imagery: a tool for the future synergy of Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 data. In Sentinel-3 for Science Workshop, Venice, Italy, 2-5 June. Read copy of the Article
- Doxani, G., Mitraka, Z., Gascon, F., Goryl, P., & Bojkov, B. R. (2015). A Spectral Unmixing Model for the Integration of Multi-Sensor Imagery: A Tool to Generate Consistent Time Series Data. Remote Sensing, 7, 14000–14018. doi:10.3390/rs71014000 Read copy of the Article
- Evagelopoulos, A., Poursanidis, D., Papazisi, E., Gerovasileiou, V., Katsiaras, N. and Koutsoubas, D. (2015) ‘Records of alien marine species of Indo-Pacific origin at Sigri Bay (Lesvos Island, north-eastern Aegean Sea)’, Marine Biodiversity Records, 8. doi: 10.1017/S1755267215000123. Read copy of the Article
- Foumelis, M., Mitraka, Z., Cuccu, R., Desnos, Y., & Engdahl, M. (2015). Moving from Temporal Coherence to Decorrelation Time of Interferometric Measurements Exploiting ESA’s SAR Archive. In Fringe 2015 Workshop, Frascati, Italy, 23-27 March. Read copy of the Article
- Heldens, W., Del Frate, F., Lindberg, F., Mitraka, Z., Latini, D., Chrysoulakis, N. and Esch, T., 2015. Mapping urban surface characteristics for urban energy flux modelling. In Book of Abstracts of the Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2015) Conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, November 4 - 5, pp. 17 - 18. Read copy of the Article
- Kotroni, V., Lagouvardos, K., Chrysoulakis, N., Makropoulos, C., Mimikou, M., Papathanasiou, C. and Poursanidis, D., 2015. Weather monitoring and forecasting over eastern Attica (Greece) in the frame of FLIRE project. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 17, EGU2015-14509, 2015. EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, April 12 - 17. Read copy of the Article
- Koulouri Panayota, Drosos Koutsoubas, Maria Maidanou, Dimitris Poursanidis, Costas Dounas. Molluscan diversity within the benthic boundary layer (BBL) over the continental shelf of the Cretan Sea, pg. 141. In "Poulakakis N., Antoniou, A., Karameta, E., Psonis, N., Vardinoyannis K. (eds). 2015. Abstracts of the International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions, 13th ICZEGAR, 7-11October 2015, Irakleio, Crete, Greece. Hellenic Zoological Society, 203 pages Read copy of the Article
- Landier, L., Al Bitar, A., Gregoire,T., Lauret, N., Yin, T., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.P., Aubert, S., Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., Feigenwinter, C., Parlow, E., Heldens, W., Kotthaus, S., Grimmond, S. and Lindberg, F., 2015. Modeling Parameters and Remote Sensing Acquisition of Urban Canopies. In Proceeding of ICUC9 – 9th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment, organized by Meteo-Fance in Toulouse, July 20 -24. Read copy of the Article
- Lantzanakis, G., Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2015. The use of Sentinels-3 synergy products for physically based atmospheric correction of Sentinel-2 imagery. In Proceedings of the ATMOS2015 – Advances in Atmospheric Science and Applications, organized by European Space Agency and University of Crete, in Heraklion, Crete, June 8 - 12. Read copy of the Article
- Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., Del Frate, F., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J-P., 2015. Exploiting Earth Observation Data Products For Mapping Local Climate Zones. In Proceeding of Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event JURSE 2015, held in Lausanne, Awitzerland, March 30 - April 1 (978-1-4799-6652-3/15/$31.00~ © 2015 IEEE). Read copy of the Article
- Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., Doxani, G., Del Frate, F. and Berger, M., 2015. Urban Surface Temperature Time Series Estimation at the Local Scale by Spatial-Spectral Unmixing of Satellite Observations. Remote Sensing, 7, 4139 - 4156. Read copy of the Article
- Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J-P. and Del Frate, F., 2015. Exploiting Earth Observation data products for mapping Local Climate Zones. In Proceeding of ICUC9 – 9th International Conference on Urban Climate jointly with 12th Symposium on the Urban Environment, organized by Meteo-Fance in Toulouse, July 20 -24. Read copy of the Article
- Mitraka, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., Heldens, W., Feigenwinter, C., Lindberg, F., Grimmond, S., Del Frate, F. and Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., 2015. Earth Observation for Urban Climate: Mapping the Local Climate Zones. In Book of Abstracts of the Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2015) Conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, November 4 - 5, p. 19. Read copy of the Article
- Mitraka, Z., Diamantakis, M. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2015. The BRIDGE DSS. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2015. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 175 - 184.
- Poursanidis D., Kochilakis G., Chrysoulakis N., Varella V., Kotroni V., Eftychidis G., Lagouvardos K., Papathanasiou, C., Karavokyros, G., Aivazoglou, M., Makropoulos, C. and Mimikou, M., 2015. FLIRE: an EO-based DSS for combined flood and fire risk assessment in peri-urban areas. In Book of Abstracts of the Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2015) Conference, organized by the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, November 4 - 5, pp. 42 - 43. Read copy of the Article
- Poursanidis D., Kochilakis G., Chrysoulakis N., Varella V., Kotroni V., Eftychidis G., Lagouvardos K., Papathanasiou, C., Karavokyros, G., Aivazoglou, M., Makropoulos, C. and Mimikou, M., 2015. Web service systems for the management of natural disasters – The case study of the FLIRE DSS in urban and rural areas. In Book of Abstracts of the SafeChania 2015: “The knowledge triangle in the Civil Protection Service”, held in Chania, Greece, June 10 - 14. Read copy of the Article
- Poursanidis Dimitris & Koutsoubas Drosos. A computerized database on the molluscan fauna from the Mediterranean Reef Ecosystems - Part I, the Coralligenous formations. Quaternary International. Volume 390, 10 December 2015, Pages 29–43. Malacological Studies from the Past and Present: A Special Volume in Honor of Henk K. Mienis. Weblink to the Article
- Poursanidis, D. 2015. Ecological Niche Modeling of the the invasive lionfish Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) in the Mediterranean Sea. 11th Panhellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries, Aquatic Horizons and Challenges, Mytiline, Lesvos, 13-14 May 2015. 621 - 624. Read copy of the Article
- Poursanidis, D., Chrysoulakis, N. and Mitraka, Z., 2015. Landsat 8 vs. Landsat 5: a comparison based on urban and peri-urban land cover mapping. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 35, 259 – 269 Read copy of the Article
- Poursanidis, D., Koutsoubas, D. and C. Arvanitidis. 2015. Molluscan fauna from the photophilic algae of the infralittoral reef ecosystem (habitat code: 1170) of Crete. 11th Panhellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries, Aquatic Horizons and Challenges, Mytiline, Lesvos, 13-14 May 2015. 493 - 496. Read copy of the Article
- Prastacos Poulicos, Gkadolou Eleni, 2015. Adding a geographical component in cultural heritage databases. Apostolos Sarris (ed), Best Practices of GeoInformatic Technologies for the Mapping of Archaeolandscapes. GeoSat Research Lab of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - Foundation of Research & Technology, Archaeopress Archaeology.
- Triantakonstantis, D., Chrysoulakis, N., Sazonova A., Esch, T., Feigenwinter, C., Düzgün, S., Parlow, E., Marconcini, M. and Tal, A., 2015. On-line Εvaluation of Earth Observation Derived Indicators for Urban Planning and Management. Urban Planning and Design Research, 3, 17 - 33. Read copy of the Article
- Zenetos Argyro, Margarita Arianoutsou, Ioannis Bazos, Stavroula Balopoulou, Maria Corsini-Foka, Margarita Dimiza, Paraskevi Drakopoulou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Gerasimos Kondylatos, Nicholas Koutsikos, Eleni Kytinou, Eugenia Lefkaditou, Maria Antonietta Pancucci-Papadopoulou, Maria Salomidi, Nomiki Simboura, George Skoufas, Panayotis Trachalakis, Maria Triantaphyllou, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Nicholas Jason Xentidis and Dimitris Poursanidis. ELNAIS: A collaborative network on Aquatic Alien Species i Weblink to the Article
- Γκαδόλου Ελένη, Πραστάκος Πουλίκος, 2015. Εφαρμογή της οδηγίας INSPIRE για την τεκμηρίωση χώρων πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς. Ημερίδα Παρουσίασης Αποτελεσμάτων του Προγράμματος ΚΡΗΠΙΣ – ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ, Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών – Ίδρυμα Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας. Ρέθυμνο Κρήτης, 18 Δεκεμβρίου 2015.
2014
- Benas N., Chrysoulakis N., Christakis N., Kossioris G. and Plexousakis M., 2014. WRF input parameter updates based on recent and long-term satellite observations. In: Kanakidou, M., Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatolog and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), organized by University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Environmental Sciences in Heraklio. Weblink to the Article
- Benas N., Chrysoulakis N., Christakis N., Kossioris G. and Plexousakis M., 2014. WRF input parameter updates based on recent and long-term satellite observations. In: Kanakidou, M., Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatolog and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), organized by University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Environmental Sciences in Heraklio. Read copy of the Article.
- Benas, N. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Estimation of land surface albedo time series andtrends based on MODIS data. In: Proceedings of SPIE Remote Sensing 2014. SPIE 9239, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVI, 92390Q; doi:10.1117/12.2066473.. Read copy of the Article.
- Benas, N., Chrysoulakis, N. and Poursanidis, D., 2014. The Surface Urban Heat Island in large Mediterranean cities during the last decade: annual characteristics and trends based on EO data. In: Book of Abstracts of the Symposium “The Mediterranean City 2014: Adaptation Strategies to Global Environmental Change in the Mediterranean City and the Role of Global Earth Observations”, p. 1, organized by the European Commission, the Eurisy, the Mediterranean City Climate Change Consortium, the Mariolo. Weblink to the Article
- Benas, N., Chrysoulakis, N. and Poursanidis, D., 2014. The Surface Urban Heat Island in large Mediterranean cities during the last decade: annual characteristics and trends based on EO data. In: Book of Abstracts of the Symposium “The Mediterranean City 2014: Adaptation Strategies to Global Environmental Change in the Mediterranean City and the Role of Global Earth Observations”, p. 1, organized by the European Commission, the Eurisy, the Mediterranean City Climate Change Consortium, the Mariolo. Read copy of the Article.
- Cartalis, C., Stathopoulou, M., Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014, Use of Earth Observation to support urban modelling parameterization in BRIDGE. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 58 - 68.. Read copy of the Article.
- Cartalis, C., Stathopoulou, M., Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Use of Earth Observation to support urban modelling parameterization in BRIDGE. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 58 - 68.. Weblink to the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Earth Observation for urban Planning: The GEOURBAN Project. In: Book of Abstracts of the Workshop on Global Urban Observation and Monitoring from Space, p. 19, organized by the National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, March 31 - April 1. Read copy of the Article.
- Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Earth Observation for urban Planning: The GEOURBAN Project. In: Book of Abstracts of the Workshop on Global Urban Observation and Monitoring from Space, p. 19, organized by the National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, March 31 - April 1.. Weblink to the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. The BRIDGE approach. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 18 - 26. Read copy of the Article.
- Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. The BRIDGE approach. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 18 - 26.. Weblink to the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Conclusions. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 209 - 212.. Read copy of the Article.
- Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Conclusions. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 209 - 212.. Weblink to the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., Esch, T., Parlow, E., Düzgünd, S. H., Sazonova, A. and Tal, A., 2014. Earth Observation in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: the GEOURBAN Project. In Muscio, A. (ed.): Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island, held in Venice, October 13 - 15, pp. 770 - 781.. Read copy of the Article.
- Chrysoulakis, N., Feigenwinter, C., Triantakonstantis, D., Penyevskiy, I., Tal, A., Parlow, E., Fleishman, G., Düzgün, S., Esch, T. and Marconcini, N., 2014. A Conceptual List of Indicators for Urban Planning and Management Based on Earth Observation. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 3, 980 - 1002. . Weblink to the Article
- Lagarias, A., Prastacos, P., 2014, Applying a CA-based model to explore land-use policy scenarios to contain sprawl in Thessaloniki, Greece, Huerta, Schade, Granell (Eds): Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place. Proceedings of the AGILE'2014 International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Castellón, June, 3-6, 2014. ISBN: 978-90-816960-4-3, http://hdl.handle.net/10234/98807. Weblink to the Article
- Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Advanced satellite image fusion techniques for estimating high resolution Land Surface Temperature time series. In: Kanakidou, M., Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatolog and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), organized by University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Environmental Sciences in Heraklion on May 28. Weblink to the Article
- Mitraka, Z. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Advanced satellite image fusion techniques for estimating high resolution Land Surface Temperature time series. In: Kanakidou, M., Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatolog and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), organized by University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Environmental Sciences in Heraklion on May 28. Read copy of the Article.
- Mitraka, Z., Diamantakis, M. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. The BRIDGE DSS. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 175 - 184.. Read copy of the Article.
- Mitraka, Z., Diamantakis, M. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. The BRIDGE DSS. In: Chrysoulakis, N., Castro, E. A. and Moors, E. J. (Eds)., 2014. Understanding Urban Metabolism: A Tool for Urban Planning. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London. ISBN 9780415835114, pp. 175 - 184.. Weblink to the Article
- Mitraka, Z., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.P., Chrysoulakis, N. and Cartalis, C., 2014. Remote sensing techniques to assist the analysis of urban microclimate. In Muscio, A. (ed.): Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island, held in Venice, October 13 - 15, pp. 754 - 765.. Read copy of the Article.
- Poursanidis D., Kochilakis G., Chrysoulakis N., Varella V., Kotroni V., Eftychidis G. and Lagouvardos K., 2014. A web service for the assessment of the behavior and the spread of a forest fire. In: Kanakidou, M., Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatolog and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), organized by University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Env. Weblink to the Article
- Poursanidis D., Kochilakis G., Chrysoulakis N., Varella V., Kotroni V., Eftychidis G. and Lagouvardos K., 2014. A web service for the assessment of the behavior and the spread of a forest fire. In: Kanakidou, M., Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatolog and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), organized by University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Env. Read copy of the Article.
- Poursanidis, D., Kochilakis, G., Chrysoulakis, N., Varella, V., Kotroni, V., Eftychidis, G. and Lagouvardos, K., 2014. Web service tools in the era of forest fire management and elimination. In: Proceedings of SPIE Remote Sensing 2014. Proc. SPIE 9245, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications V, 924513; doi:10.1117/12.2066474.. Read copy of the Article.
- Tzelidi, D., Benas, N. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Analysis of the Land Surface Temperature changes around the Mediterranean during the period 2000-2012. In: Kanakidou, M.,Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatology and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Environmental Sciences in Heraklion on May 28 . Read copy of the Article.
- Tzelidi, D., Benas, N. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2014. Analysis of the Land Surface Temperature changes around the Mediterranean during the period 2000-2012. In: Kanakidou, M., Mihalopoulos, N. and Nastos, P. (Eds): e-book of Contributions of the 12th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatolog and Physics of the Atmosphere (CEMECAP 2014), organized by University of Crete, Hellenic Meteorological Society and Mariolopoulos - Kanaginis Foundation for Environmental Sciences in Heraklion on May . Weblink to the Article
- Ευτυχίδης, Γ., Βαρελά, Β., Πουρσανίδης, Δ., Κοχυλάκης, Γ., Χρυσουλάκης, Ν., Κοτρώνη, Β. and Λαγουβάρδος. K., 2014. Διαδικτυακή υπηρεσία (web service) υποστήριξης σχεδιασμού πρόληψης δασικών πυρκαγιών σε ΟΤΑ. SafeRhodes 2014, Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο “Η χρήση των νέων τεχνολογιών στην πρόληψη και τη διαχείριση φυσικών καταστροφών - Ο ρόλος της Πολιτικής Προστασίας”, δήμο Ρόδου, 24 - 26 Οκτωβρίου.. Read copy of the Article.
- Πουρσανίδης, Δ., Πίττα, Ε., Χρυσουλάκης, Ν. and Χατζάκη, M., 2014, Γεωκωδικοποιώντας τις αράχνες της Ελλάδας. Κατάλογος περιλήψεων του 7ου Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου Οικολογίας, "Οικολογία: συνδέοντας συστήματα, κλίμακες και ερευνητικά πεδία", Ελληνική Οικολογική Εταιρεία στη Μυτιλήνη, 9 - 12 Οκτωβρίου, p. 260.. Read copy of the Article.
- Χατζάκη, M., Κορνήλιος, P., Πίττα, E., Πουρσανίδης, Δ., Καλτσάς, Δ., Μεττούρης, Ο., Χρυσουλάκης, Ν. and Nentwig, W., 2014. SPIDOnetGR - Οι εδαφικές αράχνες ως πρέσβειρες για την ταχεία ανάδειξη πυρήνων βιοποικιλότητας στην Ελλάδα. Κατάλογος περιλήψεων του 7ου Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου Οικολογίας, "Οικολογία: συνδέοντας συστήματα, κλίμακες και ερευνητικά πεδία", Ελληνική Οικολογική Εταιρεία στη Μυτιλήνη, 9 - 12 Οκτωβρίου, p.172. Read copy of the Article.
2013
- Benas N., A. Beloconi, N. Chrysoulakis, Estimation of urban PM10 concentration, based on MODIS and MERIS/AATSR synergistic observations , Atmospheric Environment (2013) . Weblink to the Article
- Benas N., N. Chrysoulakis, G. Giannakopoulou. Validation of MERIS/AATSR synergy algorithm for aerosol retrieval against globally distributed AERONET observations and comparison with MODIS aerosol product. Atmospheric Environment (2013) . Weblink to the Article
- Cartalis, C., Asimakopoulos, D., Petrakis, M., Adaktylou, N., Stathopoulou, M. and Chrysoulakis, N., 2013. Use of Earth Observation in assessing the impact of Major Sport Events. Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics (CEMEPE & SECOTOX), Mykonos, Greece, June 24-28..
- Cartalis, C., Stathopoulou, M., Chrysoulakis, N. and Charalambopoulos, I., 2013. Improving urban planning with the use of environmental indicators. Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics (CEMEPE & SECOTOX), Mykonos, Greece, June 24-28..
- Chrysoulakis Nektarios, Zinovia Mitraka, Marina Stathopoulou, and Constantinos Cartalis, A comparative analysis of the urban web of the greater Athens agglomeration for the last 20 years period on the basis of Landsat imagery . Third International Conference on Environmental Management.Fresenius Environmental Bulletin (2013) . Weblink to the Article
- Chrysoulakis, N., Esch, T., Parlow, E., Düzgünd, S. H., Τal, A., Sazova, A., Feigenwinter, C., Triantakonstantis, D., Marconcini, M. and Kavour, M., 2013. The role of EO in sustainable urban planning and management: the GEOURBAN approach. In Proceeding of the RSCy2013: First International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment, held in Pafos, Cyprus, April 8 - 10..
- Chrysoulakis, N., Lopes, M., San José, R., Grimmond, C.S.B., Jones, M.B., Magliulo, V., Klostermann, J.E.M., Synnefa, A., Mitraka, Z., Castro, E., González, A., Vogt, R., Vesala, T., Spano, D., Pigeon, G., Freer-Smith, P., Staszewski, T., Hodges, N., Mills, G. and Cartalis, C., 2013. Sustainable urban metabolism as a link between bio-physical sciences and urban planning: the BRIDGE project. Landscape and Urban Planning, 112, 100 - 117.. Weblink to the Article
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- González, A., Donnelly, A., Jones, M., Chrysoulakis, N. and Lopes, M., 2013. A Decision-Support System for Sustainable Urban Metabolism in Europe. Environmental Impact Assesment Review, 38, 109 -119.. Weblink to the Article
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PEOPLE

RESEARCHERS

Prastacos, Poulicos, Research Director, Head of Regional Analysis Division
Benas, Nikos, Postdoctoral Researcher
Chrysoulakis, Nektarios, Research Director
Diamandakis, Manolis, Principal Scientist
Doxa, Aggeliki, Postdoctoral Researcher
Gadolou, Eleni, Research Fellow
Kamarianakis, Yiannis, Principal Researcher
Lagarias, Apostolos, Postdoctoral Researcher
Mitraka, Zina, Research Fellow
Nikoloudakis, Nikos, Postdoctoral Researcher
Poursanidis, Dimitris, Collaborating Researcher
Stagakis, Stavros, Postdoctoral Researcher

TECHNICAL SCIENTISTS

Dafermos, Ioannis, Technical Scientist
Kochilakis, George, Technical Scientist
Manioudakis, Nikos, Technical Scientist

CONTACT US

For any information regarding the Spatial Analysis Group, please contact:

Geographic Information Systems & Remote Sensing Group

Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics

Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

Nikolaou Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton,

GR 700 13 Heraklion, Crete

GREECE

Tel: +30 2810 391800

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