Geoinformation in Environmental Management - Research & Studies Coordinator

Dr. Ioannis Manakos      

Summary

Born in 1973 in Athens, he studied Geology (specialization in Physical Geography, GIS and Remote Sensing) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).

He obtained a M.Sc. degree in Land Improvements (specialization in Erosion, Expert Systems, GIS and Remote Sensing) at the School of Agriculture of the same University.

He was then employed as a scientific researcher by the German Research Community at the Faculty of Ecosystem and Landscape Management of the Technical University of Munich (Germany), where he completed his PhD in Remote Sensing and Precision Agriculture in 2003.

The following year he was employed as Assistant Professor at the Technological Educational Institute of Kavala and taught Remote Sensing. Since 2005 he has been working as the Responsible Scientific Officer in Environmental Management at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania.

Education

1999 – 2003
PhD at the Department of Land Use Planning and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Ecosystem and Landscape Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Thesis topic: Information extraction from “off-nadir” reflection acquisition for decision support in “precision agriculture”

1996 – 1998
MSc in Land Improvements at the School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Thesis topic: ” Application of Expert Systems, Remote Sensing and G.I.S. for the solution of agricultural problems : Pilot study in soil erosion. “

1996 Postgraduate training at the German Aerospace Research Establishment (Munich – Oberpfaffenhofen), Institute of Optoelektronics, Department of Optical Remote Sensing.

1991 – 1995
Graduate of the Geological Department, School of Applied Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Thesis topic: “Assessment of land complexes of Santorini island by the use of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems (G.I.S.).”

1993 – 1994
Participation in the EU student exchange programme “Erasmus” at the Institute of Petrology, University of Vienna, Austria.

Awards

1996 – 1998
Scholar at the Foundation of National Scholarships in order to receive the Master of Science Degree.

1992 – 1993
Scholar at the Foundation of National Scholarships having been awarded second best place among fellow-students in this particular academic year.

Employment

2005 – present
Responsible Scientific Officer (Post – Graduate Program and Research)
Environmental Management
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece
International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (ICAMAS), Paris, France

2004 – 2005
Assistant Professor
Department of Forestry & Department of Landscape Architecture
Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, Greece

1998 – 2003
Scientific Researcher
Precision agriculture project “IKB – Duernast” (Information System Site Specific Crop Management Duernast) financed by the German Research Community, employed by the Faculty of Ecosystem and Landscape Management of the Technical University of Munich (Germany).

1997 – 1998
Scientific Researcher
Project “ASTERISMOS” (Application of Space Technology to Environmental aspects of suRface mIning. A Surface Mining decisiOn support System), financed by the EU (ENV4-CT97-373), employed by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

1997
Scientific Researcher
Project “Restoration of Lake Mavrouda”, employed by the Greek Biotope/Wetlands Centre.

1996 – 1997
Scientific Researcher
Project “Assessment damage of agricultural crops by the use of space technology and G.I.S.”, financed by the Organization of the Greek Agricultural Insurances, employed by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

1996
External Collaborator
Development of the “know how” about Address Geocoding for the city of Thessaloniki, private firm “INFODHM”.

1993 – 1995
Researcher
Subproject “Land classification and multitemporal monitoring of the Santorini volcano by the use of visual, near infrared and thermal infrared images of TM (LANDSAT-5) and field observations” within the framework of a wider project entitled “Volcanic Risk, Santorini Volcano Laboratory”, financed by the EU (EEC/DXXII-Environment).

Languages

Greek (mother tongue)

English (IELTS – Academic)

German (Grosses Deutsches Sprachdiplom)

Publications

Sekuloska, T., Sarakiotis, I., Manakos, I., Vardoulaki, E., Koukoula, E., and Karydas, C.: Fine scale mapping of an irrigation network and related sensitive areas for soil erosion and water pollution in an olive oil production area in Crete. Annual Greek Users’ Meeting of Arc/Info, Athens, Greece, November 2005.

Sarakiotis, I., Manakos, I., Karydas, C., and Zalidis, G.: Risk assessment modeling of water pollution caused by olive oil factories in Crete. Oral presentation in the annual Greek Users’ Meeting of Arc/Info, Athens, Greece, November 2005.

Sekuloska, T., Manakos, I., Karydas, C., and Silleos, N.: Risk assessment of soil erosion in an olive cultivation area in Crete, utilising QuickBird imagery within RUSLE model. Oral presentation in the annual Greek Users’ Meeting of Arc/Info, Athens, Greece, November 2005.

Manakos, I., and Karydas, C.: Site – specific water management in Mediterranean agriculture. PPT presentation, Management of the Greek Water Resources conference, Citizen’s Movement for an open society, Athens, Greece, 2005.

Karydas, C., Manakos, I., Sarakiotis, I., and Sekuloska, T.: Minimum dataset for risk management of water pollution caused by olive oil factories in Crete. Global Developments in Environmental Earth Observation from Space. In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL), Porto, Portugal, June 6-11, 2005.

Karydas, C., Manakos, I., Sekuloska, T., and Sarakiotis, I.: Environmental Status/ Impact Assessment associated to olive farming and olive oil production in Crete, Greece. 25th EARSeL Symposium, Porto, Portugal, 2005.

Manakos, I., Schneider, T. & M. Bekakos, 2004. A Mobile Unit for Field SPEctroradiometric Measurements (MUFSPEM). International Journal: Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations (in print).

Schneider, Th. & Ι. Manakos, 2003. BRDF Approximation of maize and canopy parameter retrieval by ProSail inversion. Prοceedings of the 3rd EARSel Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy, Herrsching, Germany, pp. 569-579.

Schneider, T., Manakos, J., Ammer, U. & C. Bacour, 2003. BRDF Approximation from Field Measurements and Surface Parameter Extraction with Prosail – A Module in a Precision Farming Decision Support System. Third International Workshop on «Multiangular Measurements and Models (IWMMM-3), Conference Abstracts, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA, p. 49.

Manakos, Ι., 2001. eCognition and Precision Farming. eCognition Application Notes, Vol. 2, No 2.

Manakos, I., Schneider, T. & U. Ammer, 2001. Angular spectroradiometric field measurements for precision farming purposes. Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Precision Agriculture, Montpellier, France, pp. 253-258.

Manakos, I. & T. Schneider, 2001. Field Spectroscopic Measurements for the approximation of the BRDF in the Frame of Precision Farming. Proceedings: International Workshop on Spectroscopy Application in Precision Farming, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, pp. 68-73.

Manakos, I., Schneider, T. & U. Ammer, 2000. A comparison between the ISODATA and the eCognition classification methods on basis of field data. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. XXXIII, Supplement B7, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 133-139.

Linseisen, H., Spangler, A., Hank, K., Wagner, P., Steinmayr, T., Demmel, M., Auernhammer, H., Manakos, I., Schneider, T. & J. Liebler, 2000. Daten, Datenströme und Software in einem Informationssystem zur teilflächenspezifischen Pflanzenproduktion (Data, data flow and software in an information system for site-specific plant production). Zeitschrift für Agrarinformatik, 8(2), pp. 36-43.

Schneider, T. & I. Manakos, 2000. Anisotropie der Rückstrahlung – Störfaktor oder Informationsquelle? Erörterung anhand des Beispiels “precision farming”. Berichte der GIL. Band 13., Berlin/Weihenstephan, pp. 187-190 (ISBN 3-932987-02-0).

Manakos, I., Liebler, J. & T. Schneider, 2000. Parcel based calibration of remote sensing data for precision farming purposes (Eichung von Fernerkungungsdaten anhand von Testparzellen für ‘precision farming’ Anwendungen). Angewandte Geographische Informationsverarbeitung XII, Wichmann Verlag, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 333-344 (ISBN 3-87907-349-X).

Κolejka, J. & I. Manakos, 2000. Eroze půdy hrozí. Jak identifikovat a kvantifikovat škody pomocí DPZ a GIS (Soil erosion threats. How to identify and quantify damages with Remote Sensing and GIS). GEOinfo, roč. 7, č. 1, Czech Republic, pp. 12-15 (ISSN 1212-4311).

Kolejka, J. & I. Manakos, 2000. Integrace dat DPZ a GIS při identifikaci erozního poškození půdy (Remotely sensed and GIS integration for identification of erosional damages of soils). DPZ a GIS se zaměřením na technické aplikace (Remote Sensing and GIS in technical applications). Seminář “Organizační a obchodní aspekty GIS (Organisational and Business Aspects of GIS), Sborník příspěvků z konference s mezinárodní účastí (Proceedings of the International Conference), TU Ostrava, Institute of Geoinformatics.

Schneider, T., Manakos, I., Reinartz, P. & R. Müller, 1999. Anisotropy information from MOMS-02/PRIRODA stereo datasets – an additional physical parameter for land surface characterisation. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 32, Part 7-4-3 W6, Valladolid, Spain, pp. 97-105.

Schneider, T., Manakos, I., Reinartz, P. & R. Müller, 1999. The evaluation of spectral and angular signatures from MOMS-2/P mode D data sets – an application case study for land use purposes. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop von ISPRS Working Groups I/1, I/3 and I V/4: «Sensors and Mapping from Space 1999», Hanover, Germany.

Schneider, T., Manakos, I. & F. Ruthenkolk, 1999. BRDF approximation by field measurements for precision farming purposes. Second International Workshop on «Multiangular Measurements and Models (IWMMM-2)», Abstracts, Ispra, Italy, p. 109.

Silleos, N., Dalezios, N., Trikatsoula, A., Petsanis, G. / Research Team : Misopolinos, N., Perakis, K., Konstantinidis, A. & I. Manakos, 1998. Assessment crop damages using space Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS). Control Applications and Ergonomics in Agriculture, International Federation of Automatic Control, pp. 75-79.

Perakis, K., Manakos, I. & N.Silleos, 1998. Qualitative and spatial comparatative study of satellite images classified by supervised and fuzzy logic based classification algorithms: A case study in Kilkis prefecture, Central Macedonia, Greece”. Control Applications and Ergonomics in Agriculture, International Federation of Automatic Control, pp. 195-200.

Kolejka, J., Silleos, N., Manakos, Y. & A. Konstadinidis, 1998. Getting standardized spectral information about eroded soil by integration of GIS and remotely sensed data. Proceedings II: Geographic Information Systems: Information Infrastructures and Interoperability for the 21st Century Information Society, Vol.A4, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 23-40.

Astaras, Th., Lambrinos, N. & I. Manakos, 1998. Integration of remote sensing data in G.I.S. for the assessment of land complexes of Santorini island. Proceedings of 2nd Workshop «Volcanic Risk. The European Laboratory Volcanoes», Santorini, Science research develpoment, European Comission, IUR 18161 EN, pp. 259-269.

Peer reviewed publications

Manakos, I., Schneider, T., & Bekakos, M., 2004. A Mobile Unit for Field SPEctroradiometric Measurements (MUFSPEM). International Journal: Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations. NPC, Vol 12, No. 4, pp 525-544 ISSN 1061 5369.

Book chapters

Schneider, T., de Kok, R., Buck, A. & I. Manakos, 2000. Objektorientierte Bildanalyse – Paradigmenwechsel in der thematischen Auswertung von Erdbeobachtungsdaten? In: Lehrstuhl für Landnutzungsplanung und Naturschutz der TU München (Hrsg.), Aktuelle Forschungsberichte, Festschrift zur Emeritierung von Prof. Dr. U. Ammer, Freising, pp. 234-258.

Lectures

2004 – 2005 (Sep – Jan)
Remote Sensing at the Technological Educational Institute of Kavala, Greece.

1998 – 2001 (Dec – Nov)
Remote Sensing, GIS, Precision Agriculture at the Technical University of Munich, Germany (not on regular basis).

1996 – 1997 (Nov/ Dec)
GIS, Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Invited speaker on topics of expertise

2001

“Reflection anisotropy and Precision Agriculture”
Public scientific lecture at the Department of Bio Resources and Land Use Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany

2001
“Application of Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture”
Geographical «Kolloquium» at the Department of Geography, University of Regensburg, Germany

Citations (name & origin summary)

Germany

U. Ammer, A. Buck, R. de Kok, C. Loeffl, C. Mott, T. Schneider, Institute of Land Use Planning and Nature Conservation, Technical University of Munich

H. Linseisen, Chair of Operations Research and Information Management, Technical University of Munich

M. Neubert, G. Meinel, Institute for Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden, Scientific Community Leibniz

P.Gege, German Aerospace Centre

Definiens Imaging GmbH

Italy

Μ.Μ. Verstraete & B. Pinty, Space Applications Institute, European Comission Joint Research Center, Ispra

Malay

T.H. Wong, S.B. Mansor, M.R. Mispan, N. Ahmad, A.R.M. Shariff, W.N.A. Sulaiman, Spatial and Numerical Modeling Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Technology, University Putra, and Strategic, Environment and Natural Resources Research Center (SENR), Kuala Lumpur

U.S.A.

G. Lawson (& E. Horvath, director), United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Natural Resources Inventory and Analysis Institute

Sweden

Μ. Schwarz, C. Steinmeier, F. Holecz, O. Stebler, H. Wagner, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf

Conference organization

Organization committee member of the «International Workshop on Spectroscopy Application in Precision Farming», Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany (16th – 18th January 2001).

Organization committee member of the workshop on “Introduction of new Technologies and Methods to the Organization of the Greek Agricultural Insurances: The challenge of 2000”, Thessaloniki, Greece (April 1997).

Organization committee member of the 7th Conference of the Geological Society of Greece, Thessaloniki (May 1994).