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EXCELSIOR H2020 Teaming Project publications:

Conference Papers:

April

  1. Hadjimitsis, D., Leventis, G., Cerra, D., Themistocleous, K., Kyriakidis, P., Agapiou, A., … & Komodromos, G. (2020, November). ‘EXCELSIOR’H2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 Project: Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Research and Innovation Agenda for Cultural Heritage. In Euro-Mediterranean Conference (pp. 150-161). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_13, [Download PDF] 

[2020]

September

  1. Hadjimitsis, D. G., Kyriakides, P., Danezis, C., Akylas, E., Kyriakides, N., Papoutsa, C., et al. (2020) ‘Exploring the importance for promoting Earth observation in education’, in Schulz, K., Nikolakopoulos, K. G., and Michel, U. (eds) Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XI. SPIE, p. 39. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2574134. [Download PDF]
  2. Melillos, G., Themistocleous, K., Danezis, Christos, Michaelides, S., Hadjimitsis, D. G., Jacobsen, S. and Tings, B. (2020a) ‘Detecting migrant vessels in the Cyprus region using Sentinel-1 SAR data’, in Bouma, H., Stokes, R. J., Yitzhaky, Y., and Prabhu, R. (eds) Counterterrorism, Crime Fighting, Forensics, and Surveillance Technologies IV. SPIE, p. 20. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2573744. [Download PDF]
  3. Melillos, G., Themistocleous, K., Danezis, Christos, Michaelides, S., Hadjimitsis, D. G., Jacobsen, S. and Tings, B. (2020b) ‘Mashup tools for big data analysis in maritime surveillance’, in Bouma, H., Stokes, R. J., Yitzhaky, Y., and Prabhu, R. (eds) Counterterrorism, Crime Fighting, Forensics, and Surveillance Technologies IV. SPIE, p. 5. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2573749.[Download PDF]
  4. Themistocleous, K., Hadjimitsis, D. G., Schreier, G., Krauss, T. and Kontoes, H. (2020) ‘The contribution of the EXCELSIOR Project for cultural heritage’, in Schulz, K., Nikolakopoulos, K. G., and Michel, U. (eds) Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XI. SPIE, p. 33. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2574004.[Download PDF]

August

  1. Themistocleous, K., Hadjimitsis, D. G., Michaelides, S., Neocleous, K., Schreier, G., Ansmann, A., Kontoes, H. and Komodromos, G. (2020) ‘Excelsior: Earth observation opportunities for excellence in the Emmena Region’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 82. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571837.[Download PDF]

April

  1. Hadjimitsis, D. G., Schreier, G., Kontoes, H., Ansmann, A., Komodromos, G., Themistocleous, K., et al. (2020) ‘The ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence (ECoE) as a digital innovation hub for Earth observation’, in Isaacs, J. C. and Bishop, S. S. (eds) Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXV. SPIE, p. 29. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567070. [Download PDF]
  2. Melillos, G., Themistocleous, K., Danezis, Chris, Michaelides, S., Hadjimitsis, D., Jacobsen, S. and Tings, B. (2020) ‘The use of remote sensing for maritime surveillance for security and safety in Cyprus’, in Isaacs, J. C. and Bishop, S. S. (eds) Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXV. SPIE, p. 30. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567102. [Download PDF]

Abstracts in Conferences:

[2021]

September 

  1. Tzouvaras M., Papoutsa C., Mamouri R. E., Nisantzi A., Mettas C., Evagorou E., Prodromou M., Loulli E., Melillos G., Akylas E., Danezis C., Kyriakidis P., Themistocleous K., Schreier G., Kontoes H., Ansmann A., Bühl J., Komodromos G. and Hadjimitsis D. G.: Environmental Monitoring from Space & Geoinformation through the Excelsior H2020 Teaming Project, 17th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Athens, Greece, 1 – 4 September 2021, 2021

[2020]

May

  1. Hadjimitsis, D., Schreier, G., Kontoes, H., Ansman, A., Komodromos, G., Themistocleous, K., Neocelous, K., Michaelides, S., Mamouri, R., Papoutsis, I., Bühl, J., Schwarz, E., Tziortzis, S., Nisantzi, A., Mettas, C., Papoutsa, C., Danezis, C., and Tzouvaras, M.: The “Excelsior” H2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 Project: ERATOSTHENES: EXcellence Research Centre for Earth SurveiLlance and Space-Based MonItoring Of the EnviRonment, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-21836, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21836, 2020
  2. Themistocleous, K., Hadjimitsis, D., Schreier, G., Kontoes, H., Ansmann, A., Komodromos, G., Michaelides, S., Neocleous, K., Papoutsa, C., Mamouri, R., Schwarz, E., Papoutsis, I., Bühl, J., Nisantzi, A., Mettas, C., Danezis, C., and Tzouvaras, M.: Cyprus enters the space arena with “Excelsior ” H2020 Teaming project and the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence: Why Cyprus? Why Excelsior? What are the needs and opportunities?, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-21801, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21801, 2020
  3. Mamouri, R.-E., Ansmann, A., Nisantzi, A., Bühl, J., Seifert, P., Wandinger, U., Hadjimitsis, D.G, The ERATOSTHENES Remote Sensing Supersite: Ground-truth and CAL/VAL activities for atmospheric satellite missions in Cyprus, EGU General Assembly  2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-17658, 2020
  4. Nisantzi, A., Mamouri, R.-E., Michaelides, S., Ansmann, A., Bühl, J., Seifert, P., Engelman, R., Wandinger, U., Hadjimitsis, D.G, (2020),The ERATOSTHENES Remote Sensing Supersite: Understanding the atmospheric system in the EMMENA region, EGU General Assembly  2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-17658, 2020

Publications under the auspices of the EXCELSIOR H2020 Teaming Project/Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence:

Book Section:

[2022]

January

  1. Polydorou, T., Kyriakides, N., Neocleous, K., & Hadjimitsis, D. (2022). Use of quarry waste in concrete and cementitious mortars. In Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management (pp. 289-304). Woodhead Publishing.  https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821730-6.00016-4  [Download PDF]

[2021]

April

  1. Neocleous, K., Polydorou, T., & Pilakoutas, K. (2021). Reuse of tire constituents in concrete. In Tire Waste and Recycling (pp. 547-564). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820685-0.00002-8  [Download PDF]

[2019]

October

  1. Melillos, G., Themistocleous, K., Agapiou, A., Michaelides, S. and Hadjimitsis, D. (2019) ‘Detecting Underground Military Structures Using Field Spectroscopy’, in Military Engineering. IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.86690.[Download PDF]

 Journals:

  1. [2022]

    January

    1. Hadjipetrou, S., Liodakis, S., Sykioti, A., Katikas, L., Park, N. W., Kalogirou, S., … & Kyriakidis, P. (2022). Evaluating the suitability of Sentinel-1 SAR data for offshore wind resource assessment around Cyprus. Renewable Energy, 182, 1228-1239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.100
    2. Escribano, J., Di Tomaso, E., Jorba, O., Klose, M., Gonçalves Ageitos, M., Macchia, F., … & Pérez García-Pando, C. (2022). Assimilating spaceborne lidar dust extinction can improve dust forecasts. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(1), 535-560. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-535-2022 

    [2021]

    December

    1. Radenz, M., Bühl, J., Seifert, P., Baars, H., Engelmann, R., Barja González, B., … & Ansmann, A. (2021). Hemispheric contrasts in ice formation in stratiform mixed-phase clouds: Disentangling the role of aerosol and dynamics with ground-based remote sensing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(23), 17969-17994. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17969-2021
    2. Alexakis, D. D., Manoudakis, S., Agapiou, A., & Polykretis, C. (2021). Towards the Assessment of Soil-Erosion-Related C-Factor on European Scale Using Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2 Images. Remote Sensing, 13(24), 5019.  https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245019
    3. Agapiou, A., Vionis, A., & Papantoniou, G. (2021). Detection of Archaeological Surface Ceramics Using Deep Learning Image-Based Methods and Very High-Resolution UAV Imageries. Land, 10(12), 1365. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121365

    October

    1. Miltiadou, M., Antoniou, E., Theocharidis, C., & Danezis, C. (2021). Do People Understand and Observe the Effects of Climate Crisis on Forests? The Case Study of Cyprus. Forests, 12(9), 1152. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091152 [Download PDF]
    2. Mazi, K., Akylas, E., & Koussis, A. D. (2021). Algebraic estimation of the specific storage from slug tests in confined aquifers in the overdamped case. Hydrogeology Journal, 29(7), 2545-2553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-021-02382-4.  [Download PDF]
    3. Tzouvaras, M. (2021). Statistical time-series analysis of interferometric coherence from sentinel-1 sensors for landslide detection and early warning. Sensors, 21(20), 6799.  https://doi.org/10.3390/s21206799
    4. Morsy, M., Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, R., Michaelides, S., Scholten, T., Dietrich, P., & Schmidt, K. (2021). Optimization of Rain Gauge Networks for Arid Regions Based on Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing, 13(21), 4243.  https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214243
    5. Moutsiou, T., Reepmeyer, C., Kassianidou, V., Zomeni, Z., & Agapiou, A. (2021). Modelling the Pleistocene colonisation of Eastern Mediterranean islandscapes. Plos one, 16(10), e0258370.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258370

    September

    Gravanis, E., & Akylas, E. (2021). Blackbody radiation, kappa distribution and superstatistics. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 578, 126132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2021.126132

    June

    1. Milidonis, K., Blanco, M. J., Grigoriev, V., Panagiotou, C. F., Bonanos, A. M., Constantinou, M., … & Asselineau, C. A. (2021). Review of application of AI techniques to Solar Tower Systems. Solar Energy, 224, 500-515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.06.009  [Download PDF]

    May

    1. Gravanis, E., Akylas, E., & Livadiotis, G. (2021). Stochastic dynamics and superstatistics of the many-particle kappa distribution. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2021(5), 053201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/abf7b5 [Download PDF]
    2. Katikas, L., Dimitriadis, P., Koutsoyiannis, D., Kontos, T., & Kyriakidis, P. (2021). A stochastic simulation scheme for the long-term persistence, heavy-tailed and double periodic behavior of observational and reanalysis wind time-series. Applied Energy, 295, 116873.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116873  [Download PDF]

    April

    1. Popov, M., Michaelides, S., Stankevich, S., Kozlova, A., Piestova, I., Lubskiy, M., et al. (2021) ‘Assessing long-term land cover changes in watershed by spatiotemporal fusion of classifications based on probability propagation: The case of Dniester river basin’, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 22, p. 100477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100477. [Download PDF]
    2. Gravanis, E., Akylas, E., Michailides, C., & Livadiotis, G. (2021). Superstatistics and isotropic turbulence. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 567, 125694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2020.125694 [Download PDF]

    February

    1. Morsy, M., Scholten, T., Michaelides, S., Borg, E., Sherief, Y. and Dietrich, P. (2021) ‘Comparative Analysis of TMPA and IMERG Precipitation Datasets in the Arid Environment of El-Qaa Plain, Sinai’, Remote Sensing, 13(4), p. 588. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040588.[Download PDF]

    January

    1. Miltiadou, M., Campbell, N. D. F., Cosker, D. and Grant, M. G. (2021) ‘A Comparative Study about Data Structures Used for Efficient Management of Voxelised Full-Waveform Airborne LiDAR Data during 3D Polygonal Model Creation’, Remote Sensing, 13(4), p. 559. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040559.[Download PDF]
    2. Melios, C., Demetriou, A., Christofe, A., Neocleous, K., Polydorou, T., Hadjimitsis, D., … & Charalambous, C. A. (2020, November). PVrosion: ACCELERATED CORROSION BLIND SPOTS INHERENT TO PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS’OPERATION AND UNDETECTED DC FAULTS-TROJAN HORSE FOR DETERIORATING THE INTEGRITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND BUILDINGS. In The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion (MEDPOWER 2020) (Vol. 2020, pp. 324-329). IET. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2021.1230  [Download PDF]

[2020]

December

  1. Michaelides, S. (2020) ‘Editorial for Special Issue “Remote Sensing in Applications of Geoinformation”’, Remote Sensing, 13(1), p. 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13010033.[Download PDF]

November

  1. Agapiou, A. (2020) ‘Damage Proxy Map of the Beirut Explosion on 4th of August 2020 as Observed from the Copernicus Sensors’, Sensors, 20(21), p. 6382. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20216382.[Download PDF]
  2. Mettas, C., Evagorou, E., Agapiou, A. and Hadjimitsis, D. (2020) ‘The Use of Colorimeters to Support Remote Sensing Techniques on Asphalt Pavements’, Remote Sensing, 12(23), p. 3911. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12233911.[Download PDF]

October

  1. Agapiou, A. and Lysandrou, V. (2020) ‘Detecting Displacements Within Archaeological Sites in Cyprus After a 5.6 Magnitude Scale Earthquake Event Through the Hybrid Pluggable Processing Pipeline (HyP3) Cloud-Based System and Sentinel-1 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Analysis’, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 13, pp. 6115–6123. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2020.3028272.[Download PDF]

September

  1. Polydorou, T., Constantinides, G., Neocleous, K., Kyriakides, N., Koutsokeras, L., Chrysostomou, C. and Hadjimitsis, D. (2020) ‘Effects of pre-treatment using waste quarry dust on the adherence of recycled tyre rubber particles to cementitious paste in rubberised concrete’, Construction and Building Materials, 254, p. 119325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.119325.
  2. Evagorou, E., Mettas, C., Agapiou, A., Themistocleous, K., Papavasileiou, S. and Hadjimitsis, D. (2020) ‘Digital camera calibration for cultural heritage documentation: the case study of a mass digitization project of religious monuments in Cyprus’, European Journal of Remote Sensing, pp. 1–12.  https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2020.1810131.[Download PDF]

August

  1. Agapiou, A. (2020) ‘Detecting Looting Activity through Earth Observation Multi-Temporal Analysis over the Archaeological Site of Apamea (Syria) during 2011–2012’, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 3(1), pp. 219–237. https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.56.[Download PDF]
  2. Themistocleous, K., Papoutsa, C., Michaelides, S. and Hadjimitsis, D. (2020) ‘Investigating Detection of Floating Plastic Litter from Space Using Sentinel-2 Imagery’, Remote Sensing, 12(16), p. 2648. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162648.[Download PDF]

July

  1. Agapiou, A. (2020) ‘Estimating Proportion of Vegetation Cover at the Vicinity of Archaeological Sites Using Sentinel-1 and -2 Data, Supplemented by Crowdsourced OpenStreetMap Geodata’, Applied Sciences, 10(14), p. 4764. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10144764.[Download PDF]

June

  1. Agapiou, A. (2020f) ‘Vegetation Extraction Using Visible-Bands from Openly Licensed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery’, Drones, 4(2), p. 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones4020027. [Download PDF]
  2. Gravanis, E., Akylas, E. and Livadiotis, G. (2020) ‘Physical meaning of temperature in superstatistics’, EPL (Europhysics Letters), 130(3), p. 30005. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/130/30005.
  3. Themistocleous, K., Danezis, C. and Gikas, V. (2020) ‘Monitoring ground deformation of cultural heritage sites using SAR and geodetic techniques: the case study of Choirokoitia, Cyprus’, Applied Geomatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12518-020-00329-0.[Download PDF]
  4. Tzouvaras, M., Danezis, C. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Differential SAR Interferometry Using Sentinel-1 Imagery-Limitations in Monitoring Fast Moving Landslides: The Case Study of Cyprus’, Geosciences, 10(6), p. 236. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10060236.[Download PDF]

May

  1. Tzouvaras, M., Danezis, C. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Small Scale Landslide Detection Using Sentinel-1 Interferometric SAR Coherence’, Remote Sensing, 12(10), p. 1560. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101560.[Download PDF]
  2. Yeseul, K., Kyriakidis, P. C. and Park, N.-W. (2020) ‘A Cross-Resolution, Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Fusion Model for Combining Satellite Image Time-Series of Different Spatial and Temporal Resolutions’, Remote Sensing, 12(10), p. 1553. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101553.[Download PDF]

April

  1. Agapiou, A., Lysandrou, V. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020c) ‘Earth Observation Contribution to Cultural Heritage Disaster Risk Management: Case Study of Eastern Mediterranean Open Air Archaeological Monuments and Sites’, Remote Sensing, 12(8), p. 1330. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12081330. [Download PDF]
  2. Christodoulou, P., Pantelidis, L. and Gravanis, E. (2020b) ‘The Effect of Targeted Field Investigation on the Reliability of Axially Loaded Piles: A Random Field Approach’, Geosciences, 10(5), p. 160. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10050160.[Download PDF]

March

  1. Danezis, C., Chatzinikos, M. and Kotsakis, C. (2020) ‘Linear and Nonlinear Deformation Effects in the Permanent GNSS Network of Cyprus’, Sensors, 20(6), p. 1768. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20061768.[Download PDF]

February

  1. Agapiou, A. (2020) ‘Evaluation of Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Level-2 and Sentinel 2 Level-1C Fusion Techniques Intended for Image Segmentation of Archaeological Landscapes and Proxies’, Remote Sensing, 12(3), p. 579. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030579.[Download PDF]
  2. Agapiou, A., Lysandrou, V. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘A European-Scale Investigation of Soil Erosion Threat to Subsurface Archaeological Remains’, Remote Sensing, 12(4), p. 675. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12040675. [Download PDF]
  3. Alverti, M. N., Themistocleous, K., Kyriakidis, P. C. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘A Study of the Interaction of Human Smart Characteristics with Demographic Dynamics and Built Environment: The Case of Limassol, Cyprus’, Smart Cities, 3(1), pp. 48–73. https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities3010004.[Download PDF]
  4. Christodoulou, P., Pantelidis, L. and Gravanis, E. (2020) ‘A Comparative Assessment of the Methods-of-Moments for Estimating the Correlation Length of One-Dimensional Random Fields’, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-020-09408-2.[Download PDF]

January

  1. Agapiou, A. (2020) ‘Optimal Spatial Resolution for the Detection and Discrimination of Archaeological Proxies in Areas with Spectral Heterogeneity’, Remote Sensing, 12(1), p. 136. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12010136.[Download PDF]
  2. Miltiadou, M., Agapiou, A., Gonzalez Aracil, S. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Detecting Dead Standing Eucalypt Trees from Voxelised Full-Waveform Lidar Using Multi-Scale 3D-Windows for Tackling Height and Size Variations’, Forests, 11(2), p. 161. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11020161.[Download PDF]

[2019]

December 

  1. Ansmann, A., Mamouri, R.-E., Bühl, J., Seifert, P., Engelmann, R., Hofer, J., et al. (2019) ‘Ice-nucleating particle versus ice crystal number concentrationin altocumulus and cirrus layers embedded in Saharan dust:a closure study’, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(23), pp. 15087–15115. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15087-2019. [Download PDF]
  2. Baars, H., Ansmann, A., Ohneiser, K., Haarig, M., Engelmann, R., Althausen, D., et al. (2019) ‘The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET’, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(23), pp. 15183–15198. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15183-2019.[Download PDF]

November

  1. Agapiou, A. (2019) ‘Enhancement of Archaeological Proxies at Non-Homogenous Environments in Remotely Sensed Imagery’, Sustainability, 11(12), p. 3339. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123339.[Download PDF]
  2. Christodoulou, P., Pantelidis, L. and Gravanis, E. (2019) ‘The Effect of Targeted Field Investigation on the Reliability of Earth-Retaining Structures in Active State’, Applied Sciences, 9(22), p. 4953. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9224953. [Download PDF]
  3. Gravanis, E., Akylas, E., Panagiotou, C. and Livadiotis, G. (2019) ‘Kappa Distributions and Isotropic Turbulence’, Entropy, 21(11), p. 1093. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21111093.[Download PDF]

Conference Papers:

[2021]

December

  1. Miltiadou, M., Theocharidis, C., Karathanassi, V., Agapiou, A., Nikolaidis, M., & Danezis, C. (2021, December). Understanding phenological changes of coniferous forests in Cyprus using time-series of SAR data from 2015 till 2020. In # PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE# (pp. 145-147). https://doi.org/10.34726/wim.1962

September

  1. Evagorou, E., Mettas, C., & Hadjimitsis, D. (2021, September). Satellite-derived bathymetry for shallow coastal waters in Cyprus. In Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2021 (Vol. 11857, pp. 9-23). SPIE.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599911   [Download PDF]
  2. Themistocleous, K. (2021, September). Monitoring aquaculture fisheries using Sentinel-2 images by identifying plastic fishery rings. In Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XII (Vol. 11863, pp. 232-238). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2600225 [Download PDF]
  3. Themistocleous, K., & Anayiotos, A. (2021, September). Investigating the past using remote sensing techniques. In Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XII (Vol. 11863, pp. 68-74). SPIE.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2600227   [Download PDF]
  4. Eliades, F., Hadjimitsis, D., & Danezis, C. (2021, September). Detecting changes in vegetation and climate that serve as early warning signal on land degradation using remote sensing: a review. In Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXIII (Vol. 11856, pp. 234-247). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2600284  [Download PDF]

July

  1. Kyriakidis, P., Kavroudakis, D., Fayad, P., Hadjipetrou, S., Leventis, G., & Papakonstantinou, A. (2021). Promoting the adoption of agent-based modelling for synergistic interventions and decision-making during pandemic outbreaks. AGILE: GIScience Series, 2, 1-5.  https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-2-44-2021 [Download PDF]

April

  1. Melillos, G., & Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2021, April). Oil spill detection using sentinel 1 SAR data at Cyprus’s coasts. In Automatic Target Recognition XXXI (Vol. 11729, p. 117290M). International Society for Optics and Photonics. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2585886  [Download PDF]
  2. Makri, D., Agapiou, A., Hadjimitsis, D., & Papoutsa, C. (2020, November). Land movements estimation in Amathus archaeological site in Limassol district with In-SAR DIn-SAR methodologies. In Euro-Mediterranean Conference (pp. 554-561). Springer, Cham.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_47  [Download PDF]
  3. Cerra, D., Gege, P., Evagorou, E., Agapiou, A., & Reyes, R. D. L. (2020, November). Monitoring Marine Areas from the International Space Station: The Case of the Submerged Harbor of Amathus. In Euro-Mediterranean Conference (pp. 127-137). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_11 [Download PDF]
  4. Georgiou, Z., Philokyprou, M., & Themistocleous, K. (2020, November). Photogrammetric Survey for the Architectural Restoration of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage Monuments: The Case Study of the Church of the Holy Cross in Tochni. In Euro-Mediterranean Conference (pp. 511-522). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_43  [Download PDF]
  5. Papageorgiou, N., & Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020, November). Evaluation of soil loss by water in archaeological landscapes by using the (R) USLE Model and GIS. The case study of Paphos district, Cyprus. In Euro-Mediterranean Conference (pp. 64-77). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_6  [Download PDF]

[2020]

November

  1. Cerra, D., Gege, P., Evagorou, E., Agapiou, A. and de los Reyes, R. (2020) ‘Monitoring Marine Areas from Space: the Case of the Sunken Harbor of Amathous’, in 8th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2020). Cyprus.
  2. Makri, D., Agapiou, A., Papoutsa, C. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Land movements estimation in Amathous archaeological site in Limassol district, Cyprus based on In-SAR methodologies’, in 8th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2020). Cyprus.

October

  1. Agapiou, A., Lysandrou, V. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020b) ‘Analysing the thermal conditions of historic buildings in Cyprus using archive Landsat satellite data and Google Earth Engine big data cloud platform’, in 2020 IMEKO TC-4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Trento, Italy. 

September

  1. Hadjimitsis, D. G., Kyriakides, P., Danezis, C., Akylas, E., Kyriakides, N., Papoutsa, C., et al. (2020) ‘Exploring the importance for promoting Earth observation in education’, in Schulz, K., https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2574134 
  2. Melillos, G. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘DETECTION UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES IN CYPRUS USING LANDSAT-8 BANDS’, in IGARSS 2020 – 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323447
  3. Papoutsa, C., Theocharidis, C., Prodromou, M., Papadavid, G., Sykas, D., Michailides, S., et al. (2020) ‘Smart Water Management for Irrigation Purposes: The SWSOIP project’, in Vlontzos, G. and Koutsou, S. (eds) 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food & Environment (HAICTA). Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 215–226. Available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2761/.
  4. Themistocleous, K., Evagorou, E., Mettas, C. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘The documentation of ecclesiastical cultural heritage sites in Cyprus’, in Schulz, K., Nikolakopoulos, K. G., and Michel, U. (eds) Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications XI. SPIE, p. 31. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2574015.[Download PDF]

August

  1. Christofe, A., Danezis, C. and Hadjimitsis, D. (2020) ‘ASSESSING AGING IN REINFORCED CONCRETE USING NOVEL REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES’, in Vacanas, Y., Danezis, C., Singh, A., and Yazdani, S. (eds) Proceedings of International Structural Engineering and Construction. https://doi.org/10.14455/ISEC.res.2020.7(1).MAT-32.
  2. Fotiou, K. and Danezis, C. (2020) ‘An overview of electronic corner reflectors and their use in ground deformation monitoring applications’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 84. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571886.
  3. Hadjipetrou, S., Liodakis, S., Sykioti, A., Fayad, P., Akylas, E., Park, N.-W. and Kyriakidis, P. (2020) ‘Preliminary assessment of offshore wind speed around Cyprus based on Sentinel-1 Level 2 OCN data’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 89. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571945.
  4. Kakoullis, D. and Danezis, C. (2020) ‘Permanent infrastructures for continuous space-based monitoring of natural hazards’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 65. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571201.
  5. Kosta, A., Paraskevopoulos, I., Agapiou, A., Battistin, F., Serpetti, M., Waldoch, F., et al. (2020) ‘Remote sensing techniques for archaeology: a state of art analysis of SAR methods for land movement’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 79. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571722.
  6. Melillos, G., Themistocleous, K. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Detecting underground structures in vegetation indices: MSR, RDVI, OSAVI, IRG, time series using histograms’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 5. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2569930.
  7. Nikolaidis, M. and Danezis, C. (2020) ‘An initial overview of tidal and sea level variability in Cyprus’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 60. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571166.
  8. Pekri, M. and Danezis, C. (2020) ‘Estimation of sea level height variability in Cyprus using Sentinel-3 satellite altimetry data’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 90. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571949.
  9. Riedler, B., Lang, S., Zeil, P., Miguel-Lago, M., Schröder, C., Politi-Stergiou, N., Kerschbaumer, M., Tramutoli, V. and Tzouvaras, M. (2020) ‘COPERNICUS KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION HUBS’, ISPRS – International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B5-2, pp. 35–42. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B5-2020-35-2020.[Download PDF]
  10. Themistocleous, K., Evagorou, E., Mettas, C., Prodromou, M. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘The documentation of cultural heritage sites in Cyprus using integrated techniques: the case study of the Church of Agios Athanasios and Kyrillos’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 73. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571640.[Download PDF]
  11. Themistocleous, K., Prodomou, M., Mettas, C., Evagorou, E. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Ship detection in Cyprus EEZ using Sentinel 1 data’, in Themistocleous, K., Michaelides, S., Ambrosia, V., Hadjimitsis, D. G., and Papadavid, G. (eds) Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020). SPIE, p. 70. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571308.[Download PDF]

May

  1. Leventis, G. (2019) ‘Spatial ABM to model maritime connectivity in the pre-historic Eastern Mediterranean’, in 5th AGILE PhD School. Tartu, Estonia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3835767

April

  1. Melillos, G. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Detecting underground structures in vegetation indices time series using histograms’, in Isaacs, J. C. and Bishop, S. S. (eds) Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXV. SPIE, p. 21. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2557889.
  2. Melillos, G. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2020) ‘Using simple ratio (SR) vegetation index to detect deep man-made infrastructures in Cyprus’, in Isaacs, J. C. and Bishop, S. S. (eds) Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXV. SPIE, p. 22. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2557893.

[2019]

October

  1. Melillos, G. and Themistocleous, K. (2019) ‘Evaluation of several vegetation indices to detect deep man-made bunkers using field spectroscopy’, in Stein, K. U. and Schleijpen, R. (eds) Target and Background Signatures V. SPIE, p. 17. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2532462.
  2. Papageorgiou, N., Hadjimitsis, D. G. and Themistocleous, K. (2019) ‘Assessment of the existing multi-hazard methods: intended for monitoring natural threats on archaeological sites’, in Schulz, K., Nikolakopoulos, K. G., and Michel, U. (eds) Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications X. SPIE, p. 16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2532621.
  3. Themistocleous, K., Mettas, C., Evagorou, E. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2019) ‘The use of satellite remote sensing and UAV for the mapping of coastal areas for the use of marine spatial planning’, in Schulz, K., Nikolakopoulos, K. G., and Michel, U. (eds) Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications X. SPIE, p. 36. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2533064.
  4. Themistocleous, K., Mettas, C., Evagorou, E. and Hadjimitsis, D. G. (2019b) ‘The use of UAVs and photogrammetry for the documentation of cultural heritage monuments: the case study of the churches in Cyprus’, in Schulz, K., Nikolakopoulos, K. G., and Michel, U. (eds) Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications X. SPIE, p. 18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2533056.

Abstracts in Conferences:

[2021]

December

  1. Miltadou, M. (invited speaker) Understanding Phenological Changes of Coniferous Phaphos Forest in Mediterranean using Time Series SAR data – “Forestry & Allied Subject Topics”, Web Conference by Dolphin (P.G.) Institute of Biomedical & Natural Sciences, Dehradun (DIBNS), India 18-19 December 2021

September

  1. Prodromou M., Danezis C., Gitas I., Hadjimitsis D. The development of a Forest Canopy Density (FCD) model in Akamas National Forest Park in Cyprus, using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellite data, 17th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Athens, Greece, 1 – 4 September 2021, 2021
  2. Miltiadou, M., Theocharidis, C., Karathanassi, V, Agapiou, A., Nikolaidis, M., Danezis, C., Understanding phenological changes of coniferous forests in Cyprus using time-series of SAR data from 2015 till 2020, Silvilaser 2021, 28-30 September 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.34726/wim.1962 2021
  3. Eliades, F., Hadjimitsis, D., and Danezis, C. : Detecting changes in vegetation and climate that serve as early warning signal on land degradation using remote sensing: a review, SPIE Remote Sensing – Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXIII 2021, Online, 13–17 September 2021, SPIE11856, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2600284,2021
  4. Loulli E., Bühl J., Mıchaelıdes S., Loukas A. and Hadjımıtsıs D.G.: Intercomparison of satellite and ground-based precipitation in the area of Cyprus, 17th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Athens, Greece, 1 – 4 September 2021, 2021
  5. Evagorou E., Mettas C., Tzouvaras M., Loulli E., Prodromou M., Papoutsa C., Themistocleous K., Danezis C., Pekri M., Kyriakidis P., Akylas E., Aliouris K., Ioannou N., Hadjimitsis D., Implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in Cyprus focusing on the European MSPs’ good practices, 17th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Athens, Greece, 1 – 4 September 2021, 2021
  6. Melillos, G. and  Hadjimitsis, D. G.: Oil spill detection using Sentinel 1 SAR data at Cyprus’s coasts. In Automatic Target Recognition XXXI (Vol. 11729, p. 117290M). International Society for Optics and Photonics, Online April, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2585886, 2021.

June

  1. Prodromou M., Danezis C., Gitas I., Hadjimitsis D.: Rapid assessment of post-fire forest regeneration based on burn severity gradient using the Google Earth Engine, EARSeL 2021, European Remote Sensing-New Solutions for Science and Practice, Online, 7 – 10 June 2021, 2021
  2. Prodromou M., Danezis C., Gitas I., Hadjimitsis D.: Rapid assessment of post-fire forest regeneration in Coniferous ecosystems using the Google Earth Engine, Joint MedRIN and SCERIN Virtual Capacity Building Workshop , Online, 15–17, June 2021
  3. M. Pekri, D. Kakoullis, M. Nikolaidis, E. Akylas, and C. Danezis. Estimation of Mean Sea Surface Height Variability in Cyprus using Tide Gauge and Sentinel-3 Satellite Altimetry Data. In 40th earsel symposium. Earsel, jun 2021.
  4. Fotiou, K., Kakoullis, D., Pekri, M., Melillos, G., Brcic, R., Eineder, M., Hadjimitsis, D.G., Danezis, C. : Space-Based Deformation Monitoring of Coastal Urban Areas: The Case of Limassol’s Coastal Front, EARSeL 2021, European Remote Sensing-New Solutions for Science and Practice, Online, 7–10 June 2021, 2021
  5. Loulli E., Bühl J., Mıchaelıdes S., Loukas A. and Hadjımıtsıs D.G.: Calibration of ground-based radar data for precipitation estimation in the area of Cyprus, EARSeL 2021, European Remote Sensing-New Solutions for Science and Practice, Online, 7 – 10 June 2021, 2021

February

  1. Tsioulou, O., Lampropoulos, A., Neocleous, K., Kyriakides, N., Polydorou, T., Development of an innovative one-part green concrete, IABSE CONGRESS 2020, https://iabse.org/Portals/iabse/Documents/Conferences/Christchurch2020/IABSE%20Virtual%20Programme%202%20Feb%202021.pdf?ver=1ysPPqi13Pi3OFTlHY4aIQ%3D%3D, 2021

[2020]

May

  1. Akylas, E., Gravanis, E., Nikolaidis, A., Panagiotou, C. F., Mettas, C., Kyriakidis, P. and Hadjimitsis, D. G., Off-shore wind potential in Cyprus: Towards an integrated representative geospatial database, EGU General Assembly 2020, https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-21656.html?pdf, 2020

January

  1. Georgiou, R., and Dcn Fr Papavasileiou, S., The Digital Aposphragisma Project, New Methods and Approaches to the Digitization of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage of Cyprus and Crete, Third International Conference on Byzantine and Medieval Studies, http://www.byzantinistsociety.org.cy/cbms2020/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CBMS_2020_Programme_Final.pdf, 2020

[2019]

December

  1. Akylas, E., Gravanis, E., Panagiotou, C. F., Livadiotis, G., Velocity Fluctuations in Isotropic Turbulence and their Statistical Dependence, AGU Fall Meeting 2019, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/578554, 2019
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