Despoina Makri
Despina Makri is research associate at Cyprus University of Technology and a member of Excelsior team. She holds a bachelor’s degree on Marine Sciences and a MSc in Geography and Applied Geo-informatics. Her MSc thesis concerns the mapping of different sea bottom types with the use of satellite Sentinel-2 data in Lesvos. She was involved in national and European projects and participated in Marine Spatial Planning in the Aegean Sea.
Her research interests include remote sensing techniques, object-based image analysis, data acquisition, image processing, GIS analysis and coastal habitat mapping with high resolution imagery (UAV). Since November 2019 she has been working on land movements with the use of Sentinel-1 satellite data.
- Tsatiris, A., Papadopoulos, V., Makri, D., Topouzelis, K., Manoutsoglou, E., Hasiotis, T., & Katsanevakis, S. (2018). Spatial distribution, abundance and habitat use of the endemic Mediterranean fan mussel Pinna nobilis in Gera Gulf, Lesvos (Greece): comparison of design-based and model-based approaches. Mediterranean Marine Science, 0. DOI: 10.12681/mms.14156.
- K. Topouzelis, D. Makri, N. Stoupas, A. Papakonstantinou, S. Katsanevakis (2018) Seagrass mapping in Greek territorial waters using Landsat-8 satellite images, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation & Geoinformation, 2018, v 67, Pages 98-113. DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.12.013.
