Dr Thomas Alexandridis
Institute for Global Sustainable Development
Associate professor in Remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Agriculture
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Dr. Thomas Alexandridis is an associate professor in the Lab of Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy and Geographic Information Systems, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. He is an agronomist with a specialization in Applied Remote Sensing that started with a Masters Degree in Cranfield University (United Kingdom) in 1996 and continued with a PhD from the School of Agriculture (AUTH) in 2003, in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (Pakistan and Sri Lanka). His research interests include agricultural and environmental resources monitoring and modelling using Earth observation, and spatial analysis of geographic data in GIS. He has extensive experience in mapping vegetation, soil and water parameters at wide scales using low resolution satellite images in several European countries, Brazil, Pakistan and Mozambique, as well as local scales with very high resolution satellite images, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and in-situ measurements for precision farming. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal and conference papers, and has participated in more than 30 research projects funded by the EU, European Space Agency, and national sources, in several of them as Principal Investigator.