Dr. Ioannis Papoutsis Profile

Dr. Ioannis Papoutsis

at National Observatory of Athens

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Proceedings Article | 26 August 2020 Paper

A Sentinel based agriculture monitoring scheme for the control of the CAP and food security

Vasileios Sitokonstantinou, Antonios Koutroumpas, Thanassis Drivas, Alkiviadis Koukos, Vassilia Karathanassi, Haris Kontoes, Ioannis Papoutsis

Proceedings Volume 11524, 1152407 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571721

KEYWORDS: Agriculture, Vegetation, Clouds, Satellites, Earth observing sensors, Data modeling, Remote sensing, Climatology

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Proceedings Article | 24 April 2020 Paper

The ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence (ECoE) as a digital innovation hub for Earth observation

Diofantos Hadjimitsis, Gunter Schreier, Haris Kontoes, Albert Ansmann, George Komodromos, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Kyriacos Neocleous, Silas Michaelides, Rodanthi Mamouri, Ioannis Papoutsis, Johannes Bühl, Egbert Schwarz, George Melillos, Stelios Tziortzis, Chris Danezis, Argyro Nisantzi, Christodoulos Mettas, Christiana Papoutsa, Marios Tzouvaras, Evagoras Evagorou, Athos Agapiou, Milto Miltiadou, Andreas Christofe, Maria Prodromou, Eleni Loulli, Anastasia Yfantidou, Maroula Alverti, Vasiliki Lysandrou, Thomaida Polydorou, Phaedon Kyriakidis, Nicholas Kyriakides, Evangelos Akylas, Andreas Anayiotos, Vincent Ambrosia, Marcello Maranesi, Peter Zeil, Lena Halounova, Daniel Barok, Simonetta Cheli

Proceedings Volume 11418, 114180F (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567070

KEYWORDS: Satellites, Data acquisition, Solar energy, Environmental monitoring, Data storage, Ecosystems, Atmospheric monitoring, Climate change, Clouds, Data communications

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The "EXCELSIOR" H2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 Project: ERATOSTHENES: EXcellence Research Centre for Earth SurveiLlance and Space-Based MonItoring Of the EnviRonment is supported from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 857510 for a 7 year project period to establish a Centre of Excellence in Cyprus. As well, the Government of the Republic of Cyprus is providing additional resources to support the establishment of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence (ECoE) in Cyprus. The ECoE seeks to fill the gap by assisting in the spaceborne Earth Observation activities in the Eastern Mediterranean and become a regional key player in the Earth Observation (EO) sector. There are distinct needs and opportunities that motivate the establishment of an Earth Observation Centre of Excellence in Cyprus, which are primarily related to the geostrategic location of the European Union member state of Cyprus to examine complex scientific problems and address user needs in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and Northern Africa (EMMENA), as well as South-East Europe. An important objective of the ECoE is to be a Digital Innovation Hub and a Research Excellence Centre for EO in the EMMENA region, which will establish an ecosystem where state-of-the-art sensing technology, cutting-edge research, targeted education services, and entrepreneurship come together. It is based on the paradigm of Open Innovation 2.0 (OI2.0), which is founded on the Quadruple Helix Model, where Government, Industry, Academia and Society work together to drive change by taking full advantage of the cross-fertilization of ideas. The ECoE as a Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) adopts a two-axis model, where the vertical axis consists of three Thematic Clusters for sustained excellence in research of the ECoE in the domains of Atmosphere and Climate, Resilient Societies and Big Earth Data Management, while the horizontal axis is built around four functional areas, namely: Infrastructure, Research, Education, and Entrepreneurship. The ECoE will focus on five application areas, which include Climate Change Monitoring, Water Resource Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, Access to Energy and Big EO Data Analytics. This structure is expected to leverage the existing regional capacities and advance the excellence by creating new programs and research, thereby establishing the ECoE as a worldclass centre capable of enabling innovation and research competence in Earth Observation, actively participating in Europe, the EMMENA region and the global Earth Observation arena. The partners of the EXCELSIOR consortium include the Cyprus University of Technology as the Coordinator, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and the Department of Electronic Communications, Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy.

Proceedings Article | 5 October 2017 Presentation + Paper

ERATOSTHENES: excellence research Centre for Earth surveillance and space-based monitoring of the environment, the EXCELSIOR Horizon 2020 teaming project

Diofantos Hadjimitsis, Haris Kontoes, Gunter Schreier, Albert Ansmann, George Komodromos, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Rodanthi Mamouri , Silas Michaelides, Argyro Nisantzi, Christiana Papoutsa, Kyriacos Neocleous, Christodoulos Mettas, Marios Tzouvaras, Evagoras Evagorou, Andreas Christofe, George Melillos, Ioannis Papoutsis

Proceedings Volume 10428, 104280F (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2279500

KEYWORDS: Environmental monitoring, Surveillance, Remote sensing, Environmental sensing, Water, Cultural heritage, Observatories, Applied research, Aerospace engineering, Climate change

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The aim of this paper is to present the strategy and vision to upgrade the existing ERATOSTHENES Research Centre (ERC) established within the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) into a sustainable, viable and autonomous Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Earth Surveillance and Space-Based Monitoring of the Environment, which will provide the highest quality of related services on the National, European and International levels. EXCELSIOR is a Horizon 2020 Teaming project which addresses a specific challenge defined by the work program, namely, the reduction of substantial disparities in the European Union by supporting research and innovation activities and systems in low performing countries. It also aims at establishing long-term and strategic partnerships between the Teaming partners, thus reducing internal research and innovation disparities within European Research and Innovation landscape. The proposed CoE envisions the upgrading of the existing ERC into an inspiring environment for conducting basic and applied research and innovation in the areas of the integrated use of remote sensing and space-based techniques for monitoring the environment. Environment has been recognized by the Smart Specialization Strategy of Cyprus as the first horizontal priority for future growth of the island. The foreseen upgrade will regard the expansion of this vision to systematic monitoring of the environment using Earth Observation, space and ground based integrated technologies. Such an approach will lead to the systematic monitoring of all three domains of the Environment (Air, Land, Water). Five partners have united to upgrade the existing ERC into a CoE, with the common vision to become a world-class innovation, research and education centre, actively contributing to the European Research Area (ERA). More specifically, the Teaming project is a team effort between the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT, acting as the coordinator), the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), the German Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) and the Cyprus Department of Electronic Communications of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works (DEC-MTCW).

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