Nikos Koutsias | Department of Sustainable Agriculture

Koutsias Nikos

Office

1st floor

Phone

(+30) 26410-74201

Scopus Link

Studies

Undergraduated Studies

Department of Environmental Studies, University of Aegean (1993)

Ph.D. Thesis

Satellite Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems for the Spectral Evaluation and Mapping of Burned Surfaces in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Research Interests

Remote sensing, Geographical information systems & Spatial analysis
Applications on wildland fires, natural disasters and landscape ecology
Applied multivariate methods
Geostatistics and point pattern analysis with special emphasis on spatio-temporal analysis of wildland fire ignition points
Positional uncertainty and data modeling

Selected Publications

N. KOUTSIAS, M. PLENIOU. 2015. Comparing the spectral signal of burned surfaces between Landsat-7 ETM+ and Landsat-8 OLI sensors. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(14): 3714-3732
KOUTSIAS, N., G. XANTHOPOULOS, D. FOUNDA, F. XYSTRAKIS, F. NIOTI, M. PLENIOU, G. MALLINIS, M. ARIANOUTSOU. 2013. On the relationships between forest fires and weather conditions in Greece from long-term national observations (1894-2010). International Journal of Wildland Fire 22:493-507
KOUTSIAS N, ARIANOUTSOU M, KALLIMANIS AS, MALLINIS G, HALLEY JM, DIMOPOULOS P. 2012. Where did the fires burn in Peloponnisos, Greece the summer of 2007? Evidence for a synergy of fuel and weather. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 156: 41-53
MALLINIS N, KOUTSIAS N, TSAKIRI-STRATI M, KARTERIS M. 2008. Object-based classification of a Quickbird high spatial resolution imagery for delineating forest vegetation polygons in a Mediterranean test site. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 63(2): 237-250
KOUTSIAS N, KARTERIS M, CHUVIECO E. 2000. The use of intensity-hue-saturation transformation of Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper data for burned area mapping. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 66(7): 829-839
KOUTSIAS N, KARTERIS M. 1998. Logistic regression modeling of multitemporal Thematic Mapper data for burned area mapping. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19(18): 3499-3514

Curriculum Vitae (CV)