GIS and Earth Observation University

The Quiz makers

Dimitris Sykas is a Remote Sensing and Surveying Engineer with a Ph.D. in hyperspectral remote sensing from the National Technical University of Athens (2016). He has spent fifteen years turning satellite data into operational products: at the NTUA Remote Sensing Laboratory, at Planetek Hellas as Senior EO Engineer, at Neuropublic building machine-learning models for smart farming and CAP monitoring, as a postdoctoral researcher on deep learning for agricultural Earth observation at the National Observatory of Athens, and as CTO of the cloudeo group. In 2024 he co-founded GOVADI, an Athens-based company building sovereign, on-premises AI systems for the Greek public sector and large enterprises, where he leads the technical direction of its products: Greek speech-to-text, retrieval-augmented generation with local models and embedding stores, document OCR and PII anonymisation. He has taken part in more than 25 funded EU and ESA projects, has authored over 23 peer-reviewed publications in remote sensing, and holds an international patent in hyperspectral data compression. He founded GEO University to bring hands-on GIS and Earth observation training online.

The Quiz makers

Krassakis Pavlos is a PhD candidate in Geospatial Intelligence for Risk Assessment and works as Geologist - GIS specialist at Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). He has studied Geology and Geoenvironment at University of Athens and holds a Master's degree in Environmental Design of Infrastructure Works, specialized in assessment of landslides via geospatial methods and satellite data, in collaboration with the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Main objective of his scientific work is Applied Geographical Information Systems (Applied GIS) in various fields. He has been involved in many research projects related to GIS applications. Also he has corporated with Hellenic Institute of Geological and Mineral Research (I.G.M.E.) in various projects related to GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques. Moreover, he has trained members of I.G.M.E. and I.E.K.E.M T.E.E in the field of Geographic Information Systems such as (Basic elements and presentation of advantages and basic elements for the layout of geographic data, topology and thematic cartography).