Director

Dr. Panagiotis Partsinevelos is a Professor in the area of Space informatics - GIS, Remote Sensing and UAVs. He received his PhD in Spatial Information Science & Engineering from the University of Maine, part of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) in USA and NASA Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Applications. He holds a Dipl. Eng. degree in Surveying Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Academic and Research Computer Technology Institute, Greece and as a GIS expert in the public sector. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Mineral Resources Engineering in the Technical University of Crete. His research interests include Unmanned Aerial Systems, tangible GIS, gestural interfaces, spatial database querying, multitemporal satellite image processing, cognition, spatiotemporal data management, spatial topology, visualization, photogrammetry, etc. His work has been published in several international journals and conferences and he has received various international scientific awards. He has served as a PI and participated as a researcher in numerous national and international research projects (NSF, FP7, etc).