Laboratory Profile

The Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory at the University of Aegean (RSLUA) is located at beautiful island of Lesvos Greece and it is hosted at the first floor of the Xenia B' building of the Department of the Environment. It is a member of the network: European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) and develops activities in the area of geospatial information science and technology (GIS&T) such as: Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Photogrammetry, Surveying, Cartography, Digital Terrain Models, GPS, and new technologies LIDAR and IFSAR. Its destination is to provide education and research support to most specialized fields of the Department of the Environment which use of GIS&T methods in accordance to the Department interdisciplinary program. Most laboratory activities deal with: (a) Collect geospatial data and information with methods of: Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry, and New Technologies, (b) Manage geospatial information using GIS, (c)  Use geospatial information for environmental applications, (d) Interconnection of environmental models with GIS.

Description

The Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory was established officially in 1995, It belongs to the Department of the Environment and it is located in the city of Mytilene of Greece.

Former Lab Director: Professor John N. Hatzopoulos

Personnel

• Karasmanoglou - Hatzopoulou, Instructor on Environmental Drawing
• Evagelos Papapanagiotou, Ph. D., Post doctoral researcher
• Kontos Themis, Ph. D., Post doctoral researcher, Instructor of Topographic Mapping, GIS
• Vasilakos Christos, Ph. D., Post doctoral researcher
• Santorinaiou Athina, Ph. D., Post doctoral researcher
• Paronis Dimitrios, Ph.D. Post doctoral researcher
• Christakopoulos Pavlos, Ph. D., Post doctoral researcher
• Filintas Agathos, Ph. D., Post doctoral researcher
• Bouranda Evaggelia, Ph.D., Post doctoral researcher
• Retsilidou Olga, Ph.D. candidate
• Stefanakis Dimitrios, Ph.D. candidate
• Evaggelou Fokion, Lab secretary

Ph.D. degrees worked out at the Laboratory

1. Kitsiou Dimitra,1998, (supervisor Prof. Karydis)
2. Gazis Dimitrios, 1999 (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
3. Papapanagiotou Evaggelos 2000 (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
4. Dimitriou Konstadinos  2002 (supervisor Prof. Kokkosis)
5. Chatzichristofas Fratzis, 2005 (supervisor Prof. Karydis)
6. Xristos Vasilakos, 2007 (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
7. Athina Santorinaiou, 2008 (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
8. Paronis Dimitrios, 2008 (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
9. Christakopoulos Pavlos, 2010, (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
10. Filintas Agathos, 2011, (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
11. Bouranda Evaggelia, 2015, (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)
12. Retsilidou Olga, 2017, (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos)

Equipment

The Laboratory is equipped with latest development on H/W, S/W including large collection of workstations under MS - Windows and several Unix workstations. Among specialized software available to the Laboratory includes the following:

• Erdas Imagine (10 licenses), 
• ArcGis (25 licenses), 
• Intergraph Geomedia GIS (11 licenses),
• IDRISI 32 (11 licenses) 
• MS Development Studio (11 licenses)
• Photomodeler (1-license)
• Autocad (1-license)

The Laboratory has at its disposal the following equipment:

• Spectrophotometers and instruments for Photogrammetry and remote sensing
• Two systems of Softcopy photogrammetry of Intergraph ImageStation together with al software for remote sensing and GIS.
• Surveying systems with compasses, Total Station - theodolite, and many GPS receivers.
• Many digital image cameras
• One digital video camera for thermal infrared photography

Laboratory activities