Christos Theocharidis

Mr. Christos Theocharidis

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Biography

Mr Christos Theocharidis is a Forester-Environmentalist and a PhD candidate in "Earth Surveillance & Space Monitoring of the Environment" at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology. He has completed his undergraduate studies at the Democritus University of Thrace in the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources. His research interests focus on forest observation and agricultural crops utilising and integrating various remote sensing technologies. . He specialised in time-series analysis with radar and multi-band for understanding forest density and phenological changes while he also looked into crop classifications. For his doctorate thesis, he is reading about active and optical remote sensing to identify and assess the causes of degradation and its effects in the Cypriot forests due to climate change, which have not been perceived at first sight. It further worth highlighting that he is proficient at processing remote sensing satellite data in GIS software like ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, SNAP, while at the same time he is learning how to use python and R language to automate and ease the processing of big data. It worth mentioning that he used to be a firefighter volunteer, and his training made him a highly motivated person and very passionate about protecting the environment. Therefore, he is interested in using his academic background for tackling related environmental issues.

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