Giorgos Kafataris is a graduate Surveyor Engineer and Geoinformatics Engineer of Cyprus University of Technology. Upon completion of the undergraduate degree, he continued with a full scholarship to the postgraduate program in Geoinformatics and Geospatial Technologies at the same university.

From his studies he acquired the basic theoretical knowledge in surveying engineering, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and photogrammetry. In the BSc thesis he dealt with the creation of point cloud from aerial images and a comparison was made with LiDAR elevation data. In the MSc thesis he dealt with the comparison and fusion of UAV and TLS data, to create a 3D photorealistic model of Amathus Roman Baths.

Part of the MSc thesis was the writing of a scientific article in collaboration with the professor Dimitrios Skarlatos and the PhD candidate Marinos Vlachos, which was presented at the Geospatial Week conference of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) in Cairo in September 2023. The title of the scientific article: FUSION OF DIRECT GEOREFERENCED AERIAL DRONE WITH TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNER DATA. THE CASE OF THE ROMAN BATHS OF AMATHUS, CYPRUS.