The Laboratory serves all research and educational needs of the Department of the Environment in the area of Topographic Mapping which is the wider area of Geospatial Information Science & Technology (GIS&T) with emphasis to Remote Sensing methods and it includes most fields of applications such as: cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), digital terrain models, Global Positioning Systems (GNSS-GPS), photo interpretation, Photogrammetry, new technologies Lidar / IfSar, Topographic mapping with Drones, Augmented reality, as well as their contribution in the observation, study and monitoring of the earth’s natural environment for the management, processing and visualization of environmental information.

A TYPICAL PROJECT IN THE LABORATORY A first estimate of Peloponisos fires using satellite images AVHRR-18 Preparation: Dr. Evaggelos Papapanagiotou (Sept. 10, 2007)
Today's and Previous Satellite Images of MODIS Aqua/Terra  In the following screen select resolution of: 10Km | 5km | 1km | 500m | 250m Point Weather and Sea Wave Height Prediction From the Group of Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Athens. Left click and hold the mouse button on the cursor and move to the point you wish to get the weather prediction. Move the cursor to the sea to get prediction of the wave height and the wave characteristics.	Satellite image AVHRR 18 (Bands 1,2,4) September (2-9-2007 12:26 GMT) of Southern Greece.
Part of a Satellite image AVHRR in August of the wider area in Peloponnesus after been georeferenced to the Greek datum EGSA87. The white areas are clouds, while it is visible with brown color the burned areas (A) in Aigialeia and (B) in Parnitha.	Part of a Satellite image AVHRR in September of the wider area in Peloponnesus after been georeferenced to the Greek datum EGSA87. The white areas are clouds, while the dark green colored areas are recently burned areas.
Result of automated recognition of burned areas (red color) between August 20th and September 2, 2007 (the background is an AVHRR image of September). The results do not show the burned areas of Aigialeia and Parnitha as been before the image acquisition period.	A/A Land Cover Type Area/1000m2 1 Urban Environment 7.728 2 Places for athletes with vegetation 457 3 Non watered agriculture 20.923 4 Vine yards 8.361 5 Orchards 449 6 Olive groves 80.427 7 Complex agriculture areas 128.939 8 Substitution of agriculture areas with shrub 321.352 9 Broad leave forests 70.547 10 Conifer forests 67.152 11 Mixed conifer and broad leave forests 68.200 12 Grasslands 98.656 13 Brush 205.785 14 Areas between forest and brush 152.274 15 Coastal vegetation 3.411 16 Wetlands of salt and sweet water 1.875 17 River vegetation 988 18 Lake vegetation 4.710   TOTAL 1.248.523