Prof. Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos

Dr. Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Geology, University of Patras. He earned a BSc degree in geology and a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing. He performed Post Doc research in the field of hyperspectral data processing. He worked in the private sector from 1998 to 2005. He worked at the Greek Geological Survey (IGME) from 2005 to 2011. His areas of specialty are remote sensing and geographic information systems for geological applications. Since 2012, he has been the Chairman of the Special Interest Group Geological Applications of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories: (http://www.earsel.org/SIG/Geology/index.php). He also acts as Associate Editor for the European Journal of Remote Sensing. Dr. Nikolakopoulos has been involved in R&D projects funded by organizations such as the European Union, the European Space Agency, and the Ministry of Education. He has considerable experience in the area of Earth Observation, GIS, and GPS measurements. His main research interests include geological mapping, engineering geology, risk analysis, 3D mapping, and coastal area mapping. He has more than 170 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences proceedings, with an H index of 20, and more than 1600 references.