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Ioannis Koukouvelas

Ioannis Koukouvelas

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
4153
World Ranking
5972
National Ranking
7

Overview

Ioannis Koukouvelas is affiliated with the University of Patras in Greece and focuses on research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research prominently covers several subfields including Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Archeology.

The main topics addressed in their work are diverse and interdisciplinary, encompassing:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Ioannis Koukouvelas has contributed to multiple journals, with a frequent publication record in:

  • Geosciences
  • Minerals
  • Remote Sensing
  • Geomorphology
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Their recent selected papers illustrate the scope of their research interests. These include:

  • Post-seismic monitoring of cliff mass wasting using an unmanned aerial vehicle and field data at Egremni, Lefkada Island, Greece, 2020, Geomorphology
  • Earthquake-triggered landslides and mudflows: Was this the wave that engulfed Ancient Helike?, 2020, The Holocene
  • Repeated UAV Campaigns, GNSS Measurements, GIS, and Petrographic Analyses for Landslide Mapping and Monitoring, 2021, Minerals
  • How Image Acquisition Geometry of UAV Campaigns Affects the Derived Products and Their Accuracy in Areas with Complex Geomorphology, 2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Landslide causative factors evaluation using GIS in the tectonically active Glafkos River area, northwestern Peloponnese, Greece, 2024, Geomorphology

Their research collaborations frequently involve several co-authors, including:

  • Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos
  • Aggeliki Kyriou
  • Vasiliki Zygouri
  • George Iliopoulos
  • Dora Katsonopoulou

Best Publications

  • Fault structure and related basins of the North Aegean Sea and its surroundings

    Ioannis K. Koukouvelas;Ioannis K. Koukouvelas;Atilla Aydin

  • Kinematics of the central Hellenides

    T. Doutsos;G. Pe-Piper;K. Boronkay;I. Koukouvelas

  • Kinematic vorticity and strain rate patterns associated with ductile extrusion in the Chelmos Shear Zone (External Hellenides, Greece)

    P. Xypolias;I.K. Koukouvelas

  • UAV vs classical aerial photogrammetry for archaeological studies

    Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos;Konstantina Soura;Ioannis K. Koukouvelas;Nikolaos G. Argyropoulos

  • Postcollisional contractional and extensional deformation in the Aegean region

    Sotirios Kokkalas;Paraskevas Xypolias;Ioannis Koukouvelas;Theodor Doutsos

  • Postorogenic shoshonitic rocks and their origin by melting underplated basalts: The Miocene of Limnos, Greece

    Georgia Pe-Piper;David J.W. Piper;Ioannis Koukouvelas;Lila M. Dolansky

  • A palaeoseismological and geoarchaeological investigation of the Eliki fault, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

    Ioannis K. Koukouvelas;Leonidas Stamatopoulos;Dora Katsonopoulou;Spyros Pavlides

  • Tectonic geomorphology of the easternmost extension of the Gulf of Corinth (Beotia, Central Greece)

    Ioannis M. Tsodoulos;Ioannis K. Koukouvelas;Spyros Pavlides

  • Implications of structural segmentation during earthquakes: the 1995 Egion earthquake, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

    I.K. Koukouvelas;T.T. Doutsos

  • The tectonic setting and earthquake ground hazards of the 1993 Pyrgos earthquake, Peloponnese, Greece

    I. Koukouvelas;A. Mpresiakas;E. Sokos;T. Doutsos

  • TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY OF ESCARPMENTS: THE CASES OF KOMPOTADES AND ΝΕΑ ANCHIALOS FAULTS

    E. Zovoili;E. Konstantinidi;I. K. Koukouvelas

  • An exhumation model of the south Peloponnesus, Greece

    T. Doutsos;I. Koukouvelas;G. Poulimenos;S. Kokkalas

  • A new orogenic model for the External Hellenides

    T. Doutsos;I. K. Koukouvelas;P. Xypolias

  • Structural and seismological segmentation of the Gulf of Corinth fault system: implications for models of fault growth

    G. P. Roberts;I. Koukouvelas

  • Vorticity of flow in ductile thrust zones: examples from the Attico-Cycladic Massif (Internal Hellenides, Greece)

    P. Xypolias;D. Spanos;V. Chatzaras;S. Kokkalas

  • Treatise on the tectonic geomorphology of active faults: The significance of using a universal digital elevation model

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  • Tectonic stages along a traverse cross cutting the Rhodopian zone (Greece)

    Ioannis Koukouvelas;Theodor Doutsos

  • Fractal analysis of normal faults in northwestern Aegean area, Greece

    Theodor Doutsos;Ioannis Koukouvelas

  • Late Holocene evolution of the East Eliki fault, Gulf of Corinth (Central Greece)

    S.B. Pavlides;I.K. Koukouvelas;S. Kokkalas;L. Stamatopoulos

  • The Oligocene Xanthi pluton, northern Greece: a granodiorite emplaced during regional extension

    I. Koukouvelas;G. Pe-Piper

  • The egion fault, earthquake-related and long-term deformation, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

    Ioannis K. Koukouvelas

Frequent Co-Authors

Georgia Pe-Piper
Georgia Pe-Piper Saint Mary's University
Spyros Pavlides
Spyros Pavlides Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
David J.W. Piper
David J.W. Piper Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Efthimios Sokos
Efthimios Sokos University of Patras
Gerald P. Roberts
Gerald P. Roberts Birkbeck, University of London
Atilla Aydin
Atilla Aydin Stanford University
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos Hellenic Mediterranean University

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