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George P. Petropoulos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on environmental applications of remote sensing technologies.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, Petropoulos has contributed extensively to subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Media Technology

Their work often addresses topics related to remote sensing and its applications, including:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Climate variability and models
  • Remote-Sensing Image Classification
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Among recent publications by Petropoulos are:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade (2021), published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Geoinformation Technologies in Support of Environmental Hazards Monitoring under Climate Change: An Extensive Review (2021), published in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Use of Hyperion for Mangrove Forest Carbon Stock Assessment in Bhitarkanika Forest Reserve: A Contribution Towards Blue Carbon Initiative (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • Drought Identification and Trend Analysis Using Long-Term CHIRPS Satellite Precipitation Product in Bundelkhand, India (2021), published in Sustainability
  • Soil erosion in future scenario using CMIP5 models and earth observation datasets (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology

Petropoulos collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Prashant K. Srivastava
  • Spyridon E. Detsikas
  • Yansong Bao
  • Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos
  • Christina Lekka

Frequent venues for Petropoulos's research publications include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Water

Best Publications

  • Surface soil moisture retrievals from remote sensing: Current status, products & future trends

    George P. Petropoulos;Gareth Ireland;Brian Barrett

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • A review of Ts/VI remote sensing based methods for the retrieval of land surface energy fluxes and soil surface moisture.

    George Petropoulos;T.N. Carlson;M Wooster;S Islam

  • Support vector machines and object-based classification for obtaining land-use/cover cartography from Hyperion hyperspectral imagery

    George P. Petropoulos;Chariton Kalaitzidis;Krishna Prasad Vadrevu

  • A new synergistic approach for monitoring wetlands using Sentinels -1 and 2 data with object-based machine learning algorithms

    Andrew Whyte;Konstantinos P. Ferentinos;George P. Petropoulos;George P. Petropoulos

  • Land use/land cover in view of earth observation: data sources, input dimensions, and classifiers—a review of the state of the art

    Prem Chandra Pandey;Nikos Koutsias;George P. Petropoulos;Prashant K. Srivastava

  • Co-Orbital Sentinel 1 and 2 for LULC Mapping with Emphasis on Wetlands in a Mediterranean Setting Based on Machine Learning

    Andromachi Chatziantoniou;Emmanouil Psomiadis;George P. Petropoulos

  • Burnt area delineation from a uni-temporal perspective based on Landsat TM imagery classification using Support Vector Machines

    George P. Petropoulos;Charalambos Kontoes;Iphigenia Keramitsoglou

  • Towards improved spatio-temporal resolution soil moisture retrievals from the synergy of SMOS and MSG SEVIRI spaceborne observations

    María Piles;María Piles;George P. Petropoulos;Nilda Sánchez;Ángel González-Zamora

  • Hyperion hyperspectral imagery analysis combined with machine learning classifiers for land use/cover mapping

    George P. Petropoulos;Kostas Arvanitis;Nick Sigrimis

  • A Comparison of Spectral Angle Mapper and Artificial Neural Network Classifiers Combined with Landsat TM Imagery Analysis for Obtaining Burnt Area Mapping

    George P. Petropoulos;Krishna Prasad Vadrevu;Gavriil Xanthopoulos;George Karantounias

  • Surface soil moisture retrievals over partially vegetated areas from the synergy of Sentinel-1 and Landsat 8 data using a modified water-cloud model

    Yansong Bao;Libin Lin;Shanyu Wu;Khidir Abdalla Kwal Deng

  • Application of Taguchi design for quality characterization of abrasive water jet machining of TRIP sheet steels.

    John Kechagias;John Kechagias;George Petropoulos;Nikolaos Vaxevanidis

  • Exploring the relationships between post-fire vegetation regeneration dynamics, topography and burn severity: A case study from the Montane Cordillera Ecozones of Western Canada

    Gareth Ireland;George P. Petropoulos

  • Landscape transform and spatial metrics for mapping spatiotemporal land cover dynamics using Earth Observation data-sets

    Sudhir Kumar Singh;Prashant K. Srivastava;Szilárd Szabó;George P. Petropoulos

  • Quantifying land use/land cover spatio-temporal landscape pattern dynamics from Hyperion using SVMs classifier and FRAGSTATS®

    Salim Lamine;George P. Petropoulos;Sudhir Kumar Singh;Szilárd Szabó

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing in precision agriculture: present status, challenges, and future trends

    Prachi Singh;Prem Chandra Pandey;George P. Petropoulos;Andrew Pavlides

  • A New Synergistic Approach for Monitoring Wetlands Using 1 Sentinels-1 and 2 data With Object-based Machine Learning 2 Algorithms 3

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  • Examining the Capability of Supervised Machine Learning Classifiers in Extracting Flooded Areas from Landsat TM Imagery: A Case Study from a Mediterranean Flood

    Gareth Ireland;Michele Volpi;George P. Petropoulos

  • Change detection of surface mining activity and reclamation based on a machine learning approach of multi- temporal Landsat TM imagery

    George P. Petropoulos;Panagiotis Partsinevelos;Zinovia Mitraka

  • Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content

    George P. Petropoulos

  • Erosion rate predictions from PESERA and RUSLE at a Mediterranean site before and after a wildfire: Comparison & implications

    Mina Karamesouti;George P. Petropoulos;George P. Petropoulos;Ioannis D. Papanikolaou;Orestis Kairis

  • Influence of local soil conditions on mouldboard ploughshare abrasive wear

    A. Natsis;G. Petropoulos;C. Pandazaras

Frequent Co-Authors

Prashant K. Srivastava
Prashant K. Srivastava Banaras Hindu University
Toby N. Carlson
Toby N. Carlson Pennsylvania State University
Martin J. Wooster
Martin J. Wooster King's College London
Pramod K. Srivastava
Pramod K. Srivastava University of Connecticut
Sudhir Kumar Singh
Sudhir Kumar Singh University of Allahabad
Marko Scholze
Marko Scholze Lund University
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
Dawei Han
Dawei Han University of Bristol
Dimitrios Melas
Dimitrios Melas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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