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Remote Sensing, Land Cover, Mapping, Classification, Earth Observation, Machine Learning, Precision Agriculture, Bush Encroachment, Land Degradation, Savannah Degradation
Greece

Biography

I am a Surveyor engineer with a MSc in Geoinformatics and I got my Doctoral Degree in Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens on the topic of Land Cover and Crop Type Mapping using Remote Sensing Data. I have participated in several research and industrial projects on the topics of Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, Land Cover, Vegetation and Crop type Mapping and Precision Agriculture.

I am currently working as a Research Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Manchester Metropolitan University under the EU-funded SAV-EO project, that targets mapping and monitoring of the fractional woody cover over the entire southern African savannah region employing optical and radar satellite data and novel remote sensing methodologies

Activities

Employment (11)

Manchester Metropolitan University: Manchester, Manchester, GB

2022-05-02 to present | Postdoctoral Researcher - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (Department of Natural Sciences)
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Christina Karakizi

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, GR

2022-01-01 to 2022-04-01 | Research Associate, RAMONES project: Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (FET-H2020, 2021-2024) (Remote Sensing Laboratory)
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School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA: Athens, Attiki, GR

2016-10-03 to 2022-04 | Teaching Assistant of SRSE courses: I. Digital Image Analysis for Remote Sensing, II. Photo- interpretation and Remote Sensing, III. Summer Field Course in Remote Sensing, IV. Special Applications of Photo-interpretation and Remote Sensing
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Christina Karakizi

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, GR

2021-07 to 2021-12 | Research Associate, iToBoS project: Intelligent Total Body Scanner for Early Detection of Melanoma (H2020, 2021-2025) (Remote Sensing Laboratory)
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Christina Karakizi

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, GR

2020-06 to 2021-02 | GIS/Remote Sensing expert, Carbon-Regions Transition Master Plan project (Ref: 62389200)
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Christina Karakizi

Elliniki Etairia - Sustainable Urban Planning Consultants (SUPCO) - National Technical University of Athens: Athens, Attiki, GR

2019-04 to 2020-10 | GIS/Remote Sensing expert, Assessment of social, economic and environmental aspects for the estimation of the bearing capacity of Thira (Santorini) Municipality project
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Christina Karakizi

Hellenic Cadastre - Copernicus land monitoring services : Athens, Attiki, GR

2018-04-02 to 2018-12-31 | GIS expert/Image Interpreter for CORINE Land Cover 2018 production - HRL's 2015 verification and Urban Atlas 2012 Enrichment for Greece
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Christina Karakizi

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, GR

2016-03-01 to 2017-08-31 | Researcher on Multitemporal Land Use/ Land Cover Mapping at a National Scale from High Resolution Satellite Data with Deep Learning, Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) - Research Projects for Excellence/ SIEMENS (Remote Sensing Laboratory)
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Christina Karakizi

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, Attiki, GR

2016-04-26 to 2017-05-31 | Researcher on Land cover products’ validation and intercomparison in the SCERIN (South Central and Eastern European Regional Information Network) area – Mediterranean Region: The Case of Thessaly (Remote Sensing Laboratory NTUA – SCERIN/ GOFC-GOLD)
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Christina Karakizi

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, GR

2014-06-16 to 2015-09-30 | Research Associate on Urban Monitor: Automatic Detection and Modelling of 2D and 3D changes in the urban environment from multi-modal, multi-temporal remote sensing data, THALES Programme, MIS 380134
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Christina Karakizi

Region of Attica - Department of Urban Planning: Athens, Attiki, GR

2013-12-30 to 2014-05-29 | Surveyor Engineer for National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Public Benefit Program
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Education and qualifications (6)

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, GR

2016-02-26 to 2022-04-04 | Doctor of Engineering (Remote Sensing Laboratory)
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Christina Karakizi

School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA: Athens, Attiki, GR

2014-01-23 to 2015-10-30 | Master's degree on Geoinformatics as postgraduate studies
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School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA: Athens, Attiki, GR

2007-09-26 to 2013-07-25 | Five Year Diploma/ Intergrated Master of Rural and Surveying Engineering
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NTUA - University of the Basque Country: La Rioja - Athens, ES

2011-06-28 to 2011-10-07 | Member of working team - " Intensive Program ERASMUS: Geometric Documentation of Heritage: European Integration of Technologies, TOPCART" for the Documentation of the Medieval Monastery of San Prudencio, La Rioja, Spain – 4 ECTS. Working practice for Summer Field Course in Photogrammetry, SRSE NTUA
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School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA : Sikinos - Athens, GR

2010-06-28 to 2010-07-23 | Member of working team - " Topographic and Cadastral Survey of Sikinos village". Working practice for Summer Field Course in Geodesy II, SRSE NTUA
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Regional and Urban Planning Department, Greek ministry of Environment and Climate Change : Athens, Attiki, GR

2009-06-01 to 2009-06-30 | Surveyor Engineering practice - " Topographic and Surveying Applications"
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Professional activities (3)

National Technical University of Athens: Athens, GR

Thomaidion NTUA Award for the years: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021 & 2022
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4th Pan-Hellenic Conference in Rural and Surveying Engineering: Thessaloniki, GR

2014-09-27 | Best Conference Paper Award
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9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture : Lleida, ES

2013-07-11 | Best Poster Communication Conference Award
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Funding (4)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Land Degradation Neutrality: Towards an Earth Observation-based Early Warning System for Savannah Degradation

2022-01 to 2024-05 | Grant
HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme (Brussels, BE)
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Scholarship for PhD studies

2017-08 to 2021-07 | Contract
Special Accounting for Research Office NTUA (ΕΛΚΕ ΕΜΠ) (Athens, Attiki, GR)
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Christina Karakizi

Research Projects for Excellence/ SIEMENS

2016-03 to 2017-08 | Contract
State Scholarships Foundation (Athens, Attiki, GR)
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Fellowships of Excellence for post-graduate studies in Greece – Siemens Program

2014-01 to 2015-08 | Contract
State Scholarships Foundation (Athens, Attiki, GR)
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Works (28)

Exploiting multitemporal multispectral high-resolution satellite data towards annual land cover and crop type mapping: A case study in Greece (in press)

Book Chapter in Time Series of Images in Remote Sensing, Multitemporal Earth Observation Image Analysis. ISTE/Wiley
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Konstantinos Karantzalos; Zacharias Kandylakis
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Christina Karakizi

Assessing the Contribution of Optical and SAR Data for Fractional Savannah Woody Vegetation Mapping

IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
2023-07-16 | Conference paper
Contributors: C. Karakizi; O. Gounari; E. Sofikiti; G. Begkos; K. Karantzalos; E. Symeonakis
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Optimisation οf Regional-Scale Woody Vegetation Mapping in Savannahs

39th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE 39)
2023-04-25 | Conference poster
Contributors: Symeonakis, E.; Korkofigkas, A.; Christina Karakizi; Arnau-Rosalen, E.; Boyd, J.; Karantzalos, K.
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Annual Land Cover and Crop Type Mapping At High Thematic And Spatial Resolution for Greece

39th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE 39), Antalya
2023-04-24 | Lecture
Contributors: Christina Karakizi; Konstantinos Karantzalos; Zacharias Kandylakis; Olympia Gounari; Eleni Sofikiti
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Joint exploitation of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 temporal composites for land cover and crop type mapping

41st EARSeL Symposium 2022, Sep 13, Paphos, Cyprus
2022-09-13 | Conference poster
Contributors: Begkos, G.; Christina Karakizi; Karantzalos, K.
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FILTERING LPIS DATA FOR BUILDING TRUSTWORTHY TRAINING DATASETS FOR CROP TYPE MAPPING: A CASE STUDY IN GREECE

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
2022-05-30 | Conference paper
Part of ISSN: 2194-9034
Contributors: O. Gounari; C. Karakizi; Konstantinos Karantzalos
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Land cover and crop type mapping at national scale from multitemporal high resolution satellite data

2022-04-14 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors: Christina Karakizi
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JOINT LAND COVER AND CROP TYPE MAPPING USING MULTI-TEMPORAL SENTINEL-2 DATA FROM VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ZONES IN GREECE

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
2021-06-28 | Conference paper
Part of ISSN: 2194-9034
Contributors: C. Karakizi; Z. Kandylakis; A. D. Vaiopoulos; Konstantinos Karantzalos
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ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF SPECTRAL AND TEMPORAL FEATURES FOR ANNUAL LAND COVER AND CROP TYPE MAPPING

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
2020-08-22 | Conference paper
Part of ISSN: 2194-9034
Contributors: C. Karakizi; I. A. Tsiotas; Z. Kandylakis; A. Vaiopoulos; Konstantinos Karantzalos
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Water Stress Estimation in Vineyards from Aerial SWIR and Multispectral UAV Data

Remote Sensing
2020-08-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
Contributors: Zacharias Kandylakis; Alexandros Falagas; Christina Karakizi; Konstantinos Karantzalos
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Challenges in annual land-cover mapping at national scale: the case of Greece

International Land Use Symposium 2019
2019-12-04 | Lecture
Contributors: Christina Karakizi; Konstantinos Karantzalos
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Annual Land Cover and Crop Type Mapping at Central Greece from Sentinel- 2 Data

9th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing: Agriculture
2019-09-16 | Conference poster
Contributors: Christina Karakizi; Tsiokou, K. ; Karantzalos, K.
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Detailed Land Cover Mapping from Multitemporal Landsat-8 Data of Different Cloud Cover

Remote Sensing
2018-08-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
Contributors: Christina Karakizi; Konstantinos Karantzalos; Maria Vakalopoulou; Georgia Antoniou
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Towards Joint Land Cover and Crop Type Mapping with Numerous Classes

IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
2018-07 | Conference paper
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Christina Karakizi

Annual Land Cover and Crop Type Mapping from Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Multi-temporal Data

Joint EARSeL/ NASA Workshop on Land Cover Mapping
2018-07-11 | Conference poster
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Christina Karakizi

Hyrank Hyperspectral Satellite Dataset I

2018-04-20 | Dataset
Contributors: Konstantinos Karantzalos; Christina Karakizi; Zacharias Kandylakis; Georgia Antoniou
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Annual Land Cover and Crop-type Mapping from Multi-temporal Multispectral Satellite Data of High Resolution

5th Pan-Hellenic Conference in Rural and Surveying Engineering
2017-10-14 | Conference paper
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Christina Karakizi

Comparing Land Cover Maps derived from all Annual Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Data at Different Spatial Scales

ESA WorldCover Conference
2017-05-13 | Conference poster
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Christina Karakizi

Validation and Inter-Comparison of Spaceborne Derived Global and Continental Land Cover Products for the Mediterranean Region: The Case of Thessaly

Land
2017-05-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2073-445X
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Christina Karakizi

Annual Crop-type Classification from Multitemporal Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 Data based on Deep-learning

37th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE-37)
2017-05-09 | Conference poster
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Christina Karakizi

Comparing Atmospherically Corrected Products from SENTINEL-2, LANDSAT-8 and MODIS

EUFAR ESA Workshop on Atmospheric Correction of Remote Sensing Data
2016-10-28 | Conference poster
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Christina Karakizi

Vineyard Detection and Vine Variety Discrimination from Very High Resolution Satellite Data

Remote Sensing
2016-03-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2072-4292
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Christina Karakizi

Detecting and classifying vine varieties from very high resolution multispectral data

2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
2015-07 | Conference paper
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Spectral Discrimination and Reflectance Properties of Various Vine Varieties from Satellite, UAV and Proximate Sensors

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
2015-04-28 | Conference paper
Part of ISSN: 2194-9034
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Christina Karakizi

Precision Viticulture: Vineyard Detection and Vine Variety Discrimination Using Remote Sensing Techniques

4th Pan-Hellenic Conference in Rural and Surveying Engineering
2014-09-26 | Conference paper
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Christina Karakizi

Evaluating Spectral Indices from WorldView-2 satellite data for Selective Harvesting in Vineyards

9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA 2013)
2013-07-09 | Conference poster
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Christina Karakizi

Vineyard Detection and Vine Variety Discrimination from high resolution Satellite Data

9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture
2013-07-08 | Conference poster
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Christina Karakizi

Advanced remote sensing techniques and high spatial and spectral resolution data for precision viticulture

Ampelos 2013 International Symposium, Trends in world viti/vini-culture development
2013-05-30 | Conference paper
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