Despina Makri is research associate at Cyprus University of Technology and a member of Excelsior team. She holds a bachelor’s degree on Marine Sciences and a MSc in Geography and Applied Geo-informatics. Her MSc thesis concerns the mapping of different sea bottom types with the use of satellite Sentinel-2 data in Lesvos. She was involved in national and European projects and participated in Marine Spatial Planning in the Aegean Sea.
Her research interests include remote sensing techniques, object-based image analysis, data acquisition, image processing, GIS analysis and coastal habitat mapping with high resolution imagery (UAV). Since November 2019 she
[...]has been working on land movements with the use of Sentinel-1 satellite data.