BEYOND Centre of Earth Observation Research & Satellite Remote Sensing

Joined May 2016
🛰️ Our colleague Iason Tsardadidis presented Space2Ground 2.0 at the 45th EARSeL Symposium on 29 September. The work combines satellite and crowdsourced street-level imagery to improve parcel-level crop classification.
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Meet #BioHUB, the newest Hub of the BEYOND Centre! Combining Life Sciences, #EarthObservation & AI, BioHUB will monitor and forecast biodiversity and ecosystem change, supporting conservation and resilience. 🔗More: beyond-eocenter.eu/biohub.ht…
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BEYOND’s Aggelos Georgakis presented work on real-time 3D cloud maps using MTG data, as part of the Obs3RvE project, at the @IEEE_GRSS IADF School on Computer Vision for Earth Observation took place from September 8–11, 2026, at the University of Sannio in Italy.
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🛰️ BEYOND at the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair! Satellite data, Digital Twins and Earth Intelligence in action. Read more: shorturl.at/bYVpt
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🥂A great midsummer achievement for the @E_DREAM_PROJECT! Congrats to the team for bringing the project's work to #IGARSS2026!
August may be slowing things down, but E-DREAM is still on the move! E-DREAM travelled to #IGARSS2026 by @IEEEorgin at Washington, D.C., bringing the challenge of renewable energy droughts in the Mediterranean to an international Earth observation community.
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🌍 BEYOND at @IEEE_GRSS Rizos-Theodoros Chadoulis presented a poster on using deep learning & satellite imagery to detect agro-pastoral enclosures in Somalia, supporting enhanced land cover/land use mapping. #IGARSS2026 #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
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🌍 BEYOND at @IEEE_GRSS ! Alexia Tsouni, Ioannis Kontogiorgakis & Rizos-Theodoros Chadoulis will present BEYOND research on #EarthObservation, from floods and soil moisture to renewable energy, land cover & hyperspectral imaging. #IGARSS2026
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📢 Οι πρόσφατες πυρκαγιές ανέτρεψαν τα δεδομένα για αυτο το καλοκαίρι στην Αττική. Στο @ertnewsofficial, ο Δρ Χάρης Κοντοές αναλύει τον χάρτη των πυρκαγιών της Αττικής και τις συνέπειες για το περιβάλλον και την κοινωνία. 🔗shorturl.at/6Gs94 #BEYOND #wildfires #fireHUB
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🌳 Πόσο πράσινο μπορούμε να χάσουμε ακόμη; Ο Δρ. Χάρης Κοντοές, επικεφαλής της Επιχειρησιακής Μονάδας BEYOND, μίλησε στο @ertecho & @ertnews_radio για τις επιπτώσεις των επαναλαμβανόμενων πυρκαγιών και την ανάγκη για ουσιαστική πρόληψη. shorturl.at/drQbm
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📺 Ο Δρ. Χάρης Κοντοές, Διευθυντής Ερευνών της Επιχειρησιακής Μονάδας BEYOND, μίλησε στην @ertofficial_ για τη μεγάλη πυρκαγιά στη Δυτική Αττική, παρουσιάζοντας δορυφορικά δεδομένα και αναλύσεις της Μονάδας. 🔗shorturl.at/j6vzZ
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BEYOND Centre participated in the Civil Society Consultations on the Implementation of the Pact for the Mediterranean in Brussels. 🔊The discussions highlighted the importance of cooperation, resilience and inclusive policies to address shared challenges across the Mediterranean.
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📢 The 1st workshop on the 1st version of the @E_DREAM_PROJECT platform successfully took place! @beyond_center, the project's coordinator, proudly opened the workshop through Dr Haris Kontoes, Scientific Coordinator of the project. 👏 Thanks to all partners and end users!
📣A major milestone for E-DREAM has been achieved! The 1st release for the operational version of the E-DREAM platform has received strong validation from our end users, during a dedicated online Workshop! Explore more: beyond-eocenter.eu/new_singl…
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🚨 Τι βλέπει το #BEYOND πριν ξεσπάσει μια πυρκαγιά; 🎙️ Ο Χάρης Κοντοές μιλά στη Φωτεινή Πιπιλή στον Αlpha Radio 98.9 για το BEYOND #FireHUB και το κομβικό του ρόλο στην πρόβλεψη και την παρακολούθηση των δασικών πυρκαγιών. 🎧 H συνεντευξη ακολουθεί: shorturl.at/FGBDc
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BEYOND at the 7th Athens Causal Data Science Meetup! 💥 Ilias Tsoumas presented his latest work on causal inference, while our accepted #IJCAI2026 paper, HighFM, was showcased as a poster, highlighting AI for high-frequency #EarthObservation data.
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Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Georgios Giannopoulos on his appointment as Researcher B at IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens. We wish him every success in his new role and look forward to his continued contributions to Earth Observation research at the BEYOND Centre.
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🆕BEYOND is proud to contribute to the new UN-SPIDER GeoAI Best Practices Compendium 2026, launched at @AIforGood. Discover how #GeoAI and #EarthObservation strengthen disaster resilience: un-spider.org/about/mapping-…
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🆕 Our colleagues Giorgos Giannopoulos and Dimitris Kyriakopoulos contributed to the tutorial "Spatial Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making: Concepts, Detection, and Mitigation" in collaboration with partners from @ULBruxelles and @athenaRICinfo.
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Ο Χάρης Κοντοές, Διευθυντής Ερευνών του ΙΑΑΔΕΤ/ΕΑΑ, μίλησε στο ACTION ΤΩΡΑ του @action24tv για τους ολοένα συχνότερους καύσωνες, τονίζοντας τη σημασία της δορυφορικής Παρατήρησης της Γης και των προηγμένων μοντέλων πρόβλεψης. 📺 Δείτε το βίντεο: youtube.com/watch?v=D6FJHEvh…
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NatCat Summit 2026 by @Money_Review_ |@Kathimerini_gr «Η διαχείριση της κρίσης για τους επιστήμονες ξεκινά πριν συμβεί η καταστροφή» αναφέρει ο Χάρης Κοντοές - Διευθυντής Ερευνών του ΕΑΑ Περισσότερα🔗beyond-eocenter.eu/new_singl…
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BEYOND/NOA participated in the 2026 GEO Symposium & GEO-21 Plenary in Geneva (26–28 May), represented by Dr. Haris Kontoes and Alexia Tsouni as members of the Greek delegation, EuroGEO and GEO-CRADLE. 🔗beyond-eocenter.eu/new_singl…
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