Awards & Distinctions

• Copernicus Masters 2022 - Federal Ministry 4 Digital and Transport of Germany: Finalists in the Copernicus Masters competition, recognized by the Federal Ministry of Germany.

• Featured paper International Journal of Geo-Information 2021: Recognized for the paper "Automated Geolocation in Urban Environments Using a Simple Camera-Equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: A Rapid Mapping Surveying Alternative?" in the International Journal of Geo-Information.

• Journal: Drones, Highlighted 2021: "Aerial and Ground Robot Collaboration for Autonomous Mapping in Search and Rescue Missions" was highlighted as the title story on the landing page of the Journal: Drones.

• Copernicus Masters 2021 - National representative: Chosen as the national representative in the Copernicus Masters competition.

• Galileo Masters 2018-2021 - National representative: Selected as the national representative in the Galileo Masters competition.

• Airbus Earth Observation Challenge 2019, Toulouse - 1st place Globally: Awarded 1st place globally in the Airbus Earth Observation Challenge.

• RMIT Innovation for Refugees 2018 - 1st place Europe: Secured 1st place in Europe in the RMIT Innovation for Refugees competition.

• NVIDIA GPU Grant research 2018

• NBG Business seeds 2018 - Finalists: Selected as finalists in the NBG Business seeds competition for their innovative "Moving ART VR" project in Greece.

• Healthcare Business Awards 2017 - Silver Medal: Awarded a Silver Medal in the Healthcare Business Awards for the "Drones4all" project.

• European Space Oscars 2017 - Big Data Challenge - 1st place Globally: Recognized with 1st place globally in the European Space Oscars - Big Data Challenge.

• European Commission Government Earth Observation Contest 2017 - 3rd place Globally: Achieved 3rd place globally in the European Commission Government Earth Observation Contest.

• Honor Prize for Research Innovation & Outreach 2016 from the Technical University of Crete: Awarded the Honor Prize for Research Innovation & Outreach in recognition of team's research contributions and outreach efforts. Commencement talk to the 2016 Graduate students.

• European Satellite Navigation Competition 2016 - 1st place Globally: Secured 1st place globally in the European Satellite Navigation Competition for their groundbreaking project, "Message in a Bubble," a novel viral communication platform.(http://www.esnc.info/index.php?anzeige=uni16.html) 

• ESNC European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) 2016 - 1st place Globally: Awarded 1st place globally in the ESNC European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency competition with the most innovative application idea for Galileo Initial Services for the project Drones2GNSS (http://www.esnc.info/index.php?anzeige=gsa16.html)

• European Satellite Masters 2016 - 2nd Overall Winner: Recognized as the 2nd Overall Winner in the European Satellite Masters competition, among 413 expert teams for the project Drones2GNSS. (http://www.esnc.info/newsletter/2016/nl8/newsletter.html)

• Drones for Good International Award 2016 - 1st in Europe, 3rd globally: Awarded 1st place in Europe and 3rd place globally in the Drones for Good International Award competition among 1017 teams & 165 countries for  "Save_ME" project in emergency response (https://dronesforgood.ae/finals/save-me-smartphone-uav-emergency-response)

• DJI Developer Challenge 2016 - Shortlisted: developer.dji.com/challenge2016/

• Healthcare Business Awards 2016 - Gold Medal: Awarded Gold Medal in the Healthcare Business Awards for the "smartDrone" project (http://www.healthcareawards.gr/)

• MyGEOSS 2015, Joint Research Center EU, Global Earth Observation System of Systems - Winner: Winner in the MyGEOSS for smart internet applications.

• Copernicus Masters & National Cadastre and Mapping Agency (NCMA) 2015 - 1st Winner: Awarded 1st place in the Copernicus Masters & NCMA Spatio-temporal data visualization Challenge.

• European Space Agency and Copernicus Earth Monitoring Competition 2015 - Finalist: Finalist in the European Space Agency and Copernicus Earth Monitoring Competition.

• Infocom World Conference Innovation Award 2015: Received the Innovation Award at the Infocom World Conference from the National Cadastre and Mapping Agency & Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies.

• Microsoft Kinect II sensor 2014 - International pre-release program qualifiers: Qualified for the international pre-release program for the Microsoft Kinect II sensor.