ATHENA at EuroMED 2016 conference
ATHENA’s first year activities have been presented in the EuroMED 2016 conference under the title “Establishing a remote sensing science center in Cyprus: first year of activities of ATHENA project”.
November 2016
ATHENA project first year’s annual meeting
The first annual meeting of ATHENA project has been successfully accomplished during the EuroMED 2016 international conference taken place in Nicosia, Cyprus. ATHENA consortium partners placed particular focus on the work plan for 2017 and discussed amongst other forthcoming training and knowledge transfer activities. Decisions regarding the deliverables and future communication for promoting the ATHENA vision have been also made.
ATHENA project team members meeting with local stakeholders
ATHENA presented to the Ministry of Communications and Works ATHENA mission and objectives have been presented to the General Director of the Ministry of Communications and Works Mr. Alecos Michaelides. The Ministry is responsible for Space Strategy in Cyprus and Cultural Heritage. In the meeting Dr. Anthi Kaldeli from the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus as well as the Director of the Department of Electronic Communications, Mr. George Komodromos have participated along with and the Officer Mr. Anastasios Elia from the...
October 2016
ATHENA-Training “Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Analyses”
The second virtual training from DLR was held in the premises of Cyprus University of Technology in the Remote Sensing and Geoenviroment Lab of “Eratosthenes”. Dr. Ursula Gessner from DLR/ Earth Observation Center presented the “Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Analyses” training event demonstrating the potential use of optical datasets for large scale applications and phenological studies. (more…)
Educational Activities of Remote Sensing Archaeology Presented at the SPIE
Educational Activities of Remote Sensing Archaeology Presented at the SPIE - Remote Sensing (Edinburgh International Conference Centre - Edinburgh, Scotland - 26 - 29 September 2016) (more…)
September 2016
ATHENA…back to school!
ATHENA researchers are visiting elementary and high schools promoting the benefits of Earth Observation for Cultural Heritage. These visits are part of the Researcher Week organized by the Researcher Promotion Foundation. (more…)
Researchers from the Eratosthenes Lab will meet you in Filoxenia Conference Centre in Nicosia, on Friday 30 September.
Topic: Cyprus from above: History and Heritage About "Researcher's Night": The European Researchers' Nights are events dedicated to popular science and fun learning. They are a unique opportunity to meet researchers, talk to them, and find out what they really do for society, in interactive and engaging ways. This can be through hands-on experiments, science shows, learning activities for children, guided visits of research labs, science quizzes, games, competitions with researchers and more. (more…)
Φεστιβάλ Περιβάλλοντος και Πολιτισμού
Το Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου (ΤΕΠΑΚ) έλαβε μέρος στο 10ο ολοήμερο φεστιβάλ Περιβάλλοντος και Πολιτισμού στις 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016. Το φεστιβάλ πραγματοποιήθηκε στο Δημοτικό Κήπο Λευκωσίας από τις 11π.μ. μέχρι τις 8μ.μ. Με αφορμή το σύνθημα «σκέψου τις επόμενες γενιές» ως το κεντρικό θέμα του φεστιβάλ, το ΤΕΠΑΚ μοίρασε ενημερωτικό υλικό και πληροφορίες για διάφορα ερευνητικά προγράμματά του που σχετίζονται με θέματα περιβάλλοντος και πολιτισμού. (more…)
ATHENA project presents to archaeologists
The Archaeological Research Unit (ARU) of the University of Cyprus is hosting ATHENA consortium members for one day lecturing. Further details: Date: Wednesday 01/11/2016 Time: 7.30 p.m. Venue: 12 Gladstonos street Nicosia Speakers/Title: Prof. Rosa Lasaponara, IMAA-CNR (Italian Research Council, Institute for Environmental Monitoring). “Living in the golden age of Digital Heritage: from discovery to documentation, management and tourist exploitation” and Dr. Gunter Schreier, German Aerospace Center Earth Observation Center. “The European Earth Observation Programme COPERNICUS: a contribution to the preservation of cultural heritage” Read more ...
6TH GEOBIA – SOLUTIONS & SYNERGIES
Poster presentation at GEOBIA 2016 conference taken place at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, in Enschede, The Netherlands, from 14-16 September 2016
