Environment

In the last decade, extreme events such as flood disasters are becoming more frequent and more destructive compared with the old ones, especially in developing countries, causing loss of human lives and properties. Official researches reveal that the majority of all disaster events from 2000 to 2019 concern flooding events that have impacted 1.6 billion people worldwide. The main reasons that cause flood events to escalate to disaster are climate changes and anthropogenic factors. Therefore, proper monitoring and identification of areas that are prone to floods and also the effective mitigation countermeasures are considered very important to risk reduction.

M4D, having actively participated in several projects, develops solutions that support the identification and classification of crisis events by considering data from satellites, social media, weather forecast, and other sources. Information fusion and intelligent machine learning and deep learning methods are employed for exploiting the synergy in the acquired information and produce timely and accurate estimations of crisis level and the risk assessment.


Flood Risk map for Trieste on September 23, 2019

Flood Hazard map for Trieste on September 23, 2019

PROJECTS

PUBLICATIONS

  1. E. Valla, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Wildfire Event Detection using Social Media and Earth Observation Data.", in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment, RSCy2025 (RSCy2025), Paphos, 17-19 March 2025, (Poster).
  2. K. Stavrothanasopoulos, K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "CylinDeRS: A Benchmark Visual Dataset for Robust Gas Cylinder Detection and Attribute Classification in Real-World Scenes.", Sensors, vol. 25, no. 4, 2025.
  3. G. Xekalakis, P. M. Lopez, M. A. Ruiz, T. Tötzer, P. Kaleta, K. Karystinakis, A. Moumtzidou, R. Forjan, P. Christou, C. Anastasiou, V. Pavone, G. D’Angelo, F. Solano Cobos, M. Bügelmayer-Blaschek, S. Boutsis, M. Vurnek, I. Murano, P. Del Prete, P. Kutschera, D. Leonidis, E. Kazamia, A. Warde, J. Hawkes, P. Colonna, V. Petruso, B. Russo, M. F. Leone, M. Schneider, A. Hochebner, G. Zuccaro, D. Havlik, "User-Driven Climate Resilience Across Southern European Regions.", Climate, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli13010002 OPEN ACCESS
  4. M. Pegia, B. Þ. Jónsson, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Comparative Analysis of Learning-Based Approaches for Change Detection in Satellite Images.", IEEE Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 18, pp. 3766-3781, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3522350
  5. D. F. Mantsis, A. Moumtzidou, I. Lioumbas, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Christodoulou, A. Mentes, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Detection of Complex Formations in an Inland Lake from Sentinel-2 Images Using Atmospheric Corrections and a Fully Connected Deep Neural Network.", Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 20, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16203913
  6. N. Nagkoulis, G. Vasiloudis, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Forecasting lakes' chlorophyll concentrations using satellite images and generative adversarial networks.", Water Resources Research, vol. 60, no. 10, October 2024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037138
  7. D. Valsamis, A. Oikonomidis, C. Chatzichristaki, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Towards Advanced Wildfire Analysis: A Siamese Network-Based Change Detection Approach through Self-Supervised Learning.", in Proceedings of the Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Reykjavik, Iceland, 18-20 September 2024, pp. 1-7. DOI: 10.1109/CBMI62980.2024.10858874 OPEN ACCESS
  8. C. Psychalas, K. Vlachos, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "MUDDAT: A Sentinel-2 image-based muddy water benchmark dataset for environmental monitoring.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024), Athens, Greece, 07-12 July 2024, pp. 2902-2907. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10642051
  9. E. Michail, A. Bozas, D. Stefanopoulos, S. Paspalakis, G. Orfanidis, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Incorporating Social Media Sensing and Computer Vision Technologies to Support Wildfire Monitoring.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024), Athens, Greece, 07-12 July 2024, pp. 2082-2085.
  10. E. Tziviloglou, C. Stentoumis, J. I. Alvarez, E. Stathopoulos, S. Diplaris, A. Sfetsos, D. Vlachogiannis, I. Karatasios, "Resilient and adaptive renovation of 20th century buildings towards net-zero carbon built heritage - The approach of the SINCERE research project.", In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin (MONUBASIN), Athens, Greece, June 17-19, 2024. OPEN ACCESS
  11. E. Michail, P. Giannakeris, I. Koulalis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Innovative Visual Analysis Solutions to Support Disaster Management.", in Responding to Extreme Weather Events, D. Sempere-Torres, A. Karakostas, C. Rossi, P. Quevauviller, Eds., 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119741374.ch10
  12. P. Masa, S. Kintzios, Z. Vasileiou, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Semantic Framework for Decision Making in Forest Fire Emergencies.", Appl. Sci., vol. 13, no. 16, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13169065 OPEN ACCESS
  13. Α. Bozas, G. Sakkas, Y. Kouloglou, A. Moumtzidou, N. Kalopodis, K. Demestichas, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Giordanis, I. Vourvachis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Social media sensing for forest wildfires- a case study from Greece.", in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies (SafeAttica), War Museum, Athens, Greece, 20-30 June, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10101880 OPEN ACCESS
  14. M. G. Scarpino, M. Matera, P. Bauer, I. Manakos, A. Kita, K. Vlachos, A. Bozas, I. Serral, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis,"WQEMS platform for inland surface water bodies' monitoring: serving user communities and supporting expert analyses", in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2023), vol. 1278615, SPIE, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 3-5 April, 2023.
  15. K. Vlachos, C. Psychalas, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "TOWARDS A PARADIGM SHIFT ON MAPPING MUDDY WATERS IN WATER RESERVOIRS WITH SENTINEL-2 USING MACHINE LEARNING.", in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2023), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 3-5 April, 2023. (Poster) OPEN ACCESS
  16. G. Scarpino, M. Matera, P. Bauer, I. Manakos, A. Kita, K. Vlachos, A. Bozas, I. Serral, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, "WQeMS Platform for Insland and Surface Water Bodies' Monitoring: Serving User Communities and Supporting Experts' Analyses.", in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of Environment, Cyprus, 3-5 April, 2023.
  17. C. Psychalas, K. Vlachos, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Towards a Paradigm Shift on Mapping Muddy Waters with Sentinel-2 Using Machine Learning.", Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 18, September 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813441 OPEN ACCESS
  18. G. Sakkas, V. Varela, I. Vourvachis, A. Giordanis, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, K. Demestichas, S. Kaloudis, R. Kechri, K. Meletis, "SILVANUS: An Integrated Technological and Information Platform for Wildfire Management – North Evia Pilot Area.", in Proceedings of the SafeThessaloniki 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 September - 1 October 2022. OPEN ACCESS
  19. P. Masa, G. Tzanetis, S. Kintzios, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Vourvachis, L. Nerantzis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery.", in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies (SafeThessaloniki 2022), Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 September - 1 October 2022. OPEN ACCESS
  20. M. Pegia, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, B. T. Johnsson, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "BiasUNet: Learning Change Detection over Sentinel-2 Image Pairs.", in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2022), Graz, Austria, 14-16 September 2022. OPEN ACCESS
  21. P. Masa, G. Meditskos, S. Kintzios, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Ontology-based Modelling and Reasoning for Forest Fire Emergencies in Resilient Societies.", in Proceedings of the 12th EETN Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2022), Corfu, Greece, September 7-9, 2022.
  22. K. Vlachos, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A tempοral Deep Convolutional Neural Network model on Sentinel-1 Image Time Series for pixel-wise Flood Classification.", in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2022), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 17-22 July 2022. OPEN ACCESS
  23. S. Andreadis, M. Elias, T. Mavropoulos, C. Papadopoulos, N. Pantelidis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "SPARQL querying for validating the usage of automatically georeferenced social media data as human sensors for air quality.", in Proceedings of the IEEE 14th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP 2022), Nafplio, Greece, 26-29 June, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/IVMSP54334.2022.9816191
  24. M. Sdraka, I. Papoutsis, B. Psomas, K. Vlachos, K. Ioannidis, K. Karantzalos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, "Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Image Downscaling: Fusion and Super-Resolution.", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 202-255, 02 June 2022. DOI: 10.1109/MGRS.2022.3171836 OPEN ACCESS
  25. N. I. Dourvas, A. Papagianni, I. Koulalis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "An early-warning system for fire spreading by monitoring simple climate conditions and combining Cellular Automata with Digital Twins.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Living Environment (MetroLivEn), 25-27 May, 2022, pp. 252-257. DOI: 10.1109/MetroLivEnv54405.2022.9826950
  26. D. F. Mantsis, M. Bakratsas, K. Vlachos, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Detection of oil spills in an inland lake using Multi-Spectral Satellite Images.", in Proceedings of the 2022 Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 23-27 May 2022. OPEN ACCESS
  27. T. Papadimos, N. Pantelidis, S. Andreadis, A. Bozas, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Real-time Alert Framework for Fire Incidents Using Multimodal Event Detection on Social Media Streams.", in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Tarbes, France, 22-25 May 2022. OPEN ACCESS © © 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
  28. P. Masa , G. Meditskos, A. Karakostas , S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "On the Use of Semantic Web Technologies for Forest Fire Emergencies in Resilient Societies.",in Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'21), Las Vegas, USA, July 26-29, 2021. OPEN ACCESS
  29. W. Yao, A. Moumtzidou, C. O. Dumitru, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, M. Datcu, I. Kompatsiaris, "Early and Late Fusion of Multiple Modalities in Sentinel Imagery and Social Media Retrieval.", in Proceedings of the 11th IAPR International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing (PRRS 2020⁄2021), in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020), 10 January, 2021. OPEN ACCESS
  30. A. Chatzimichail, E. Stathopoulos, D. Ntioudis, A. Tsanousa, M. Rousi, A. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "IoT and Semantic Web Technologies.", in Semantic IoT: Theory and Applications - Interoperability, Provenance and Beyond, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2020, p. 3-33. OPEN ACCESS
  31. M. Rousi, V. Sitokonstantinou, G. Meditskos, I. Papoutsis, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Koukos, V. Karathanassi, T. Drivas, S. Vrochidis, C. Kontoes, I. Kompatsiaris, "Semantically enriched crop type classification and Linked Earth Observation Data to support the Common Agricultural Policy monitoring.", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 14, pp. 529-552, November 2020. OPEN ACCESS
  32. D. Mantsis, M. Bakratsas, S. Andreadis, P. Karsisto, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Karppinen, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Multimodal Fusion of Sentinel-1 images and Social media Data for Snow Depth estimation.", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 19, pp. 1-5, 2020. OPEN ACCESS
  33. G. Antzoulatos, C. Mourtzios, P. Stournara, I. O. Kouloglou, N. Papadimitriou, D. Spyrou, A. Mentes, E. Nikolaidis, A. Karakostas, D. Kourtesis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Making urban water smart: the SMART-WATER solution.", Water Science & Technology, vol. 82, no. 12, December 2020. OPEN ACCESS
  34. A. Moumtzidou, G. Orfanidis, S. Andreadis, K. Ioannidis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris. A space-based solution for oil spill detection. NEREUS/ESA/EC “The Ever Growing use of Copernicus across Europe’s Regions” (p. 277). OPEN ACCESS
  35. M. Riga, E. Kontopoulos, K. Ioannidis, S. Kintzios, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "EUCISE-OWL: An Ontology-based Representation of the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) for the Maritime Domain.", Semantic Web, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1-13, 2020. OPEN ACCESS
  36. M. Mpakratsas, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Deep Neural Network Slope Reduction Model on Sentinel-1 Images for Water Mask Extraction", 40th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS 2019), Daejeon, Korea, 2019. OPEN ACCESS
  37. M. Krestenitis, G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris. "Oil Spill Identification from Satellite Images Using Deep Neural Networks". Remote Sensing, 11(15), 1762, 26 July 2019. OPEN ACCESS
  38. M.Krestenitis, G. Orfanidis, K.Ioannidis, K.Avgerinakis, S.Vrochidis, & I.Kompatsiaris,"Oil spill identification from satellite images using deep neural networks", Remote Sensing, 11(15), 1762, 26 July 2017. OPEN ACCESS
  39. I. Gialampoukidis, E. Chatzilari, S. Nikolopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris. “Multimodal Fusion of Big Multimedia Data, in Book: Big Data Analytics for Large-Scale Multimedia Search”. 15 March 2019. OPEN ACCESS
  40. A. Moumtzidou, M. Bakratsas, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris,"Road passability estimation using deep neural networks and satellite image patches", in Proc. of the 2019 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’19), Munich, Germany, 2019, pp. 1–4. OPEN ACCESS
  41. M. Krestenitis, G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris,"Early Identification of Oil Spills in Satellite Images Using Deep CNNs", In International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (pp. 424-435), Springer, Cham, January 2019. OPEN ACCESS
  42. S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, R. Fiorin, F. Lombardo, D. Norbiato, A. Karakostas, M. Ferri, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "Social Media Observations for Flood Event Monitoring in Italy over a One-Year Period", in 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), 27-30 November 2018, Venezia, Italy. OPEN ACCESS
  43. E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, S. Dasiopoulou, J. Mossgraber, S. Mille, P. Hertweck, T. Hellmund, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, L. Wanner, I. Kompatsiaris, "Applying Semantic Web Technologies for Decision Support in Climate-Related Crisis Management", in 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), 27-30 November 2018, Venezia, Italy. OPEN ACCESS
  44. A. Moumtzidou, P. Giannakeris, S. Andreadis, A. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, I. Gialampoukidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "A multimodal approach in estimating road passability through a flooded area using social media and satellite images", multimedia satellite task MediaEval 2018. In Proceedings of the Working Notes Proceeding MediaEval Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, 29-31 October, 2018. OPEN ACCESS
  45. G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "A deep neural network for oil spill semantic segmentation in SAR images", in IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2018), Athens, Greece, October 2018. OPEN ACCESS
  46. D. C. Hilbring, J. Mossgraber, P. Hertweck, T. Hellmund, H. van der Schaaf, A. Karakostas, E. Kontopoulos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Andreadis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Harmonizing Data Collection in an Ontology for a Risk Management Platform", in proceedings of Enviroinfo 2018, Shaker-Verlag.
  47. A. Joly, S. Vrochidis, K. Karatzas, A. Karppinen, P. Bonnet (2018). Multimedia Tools and Applications for Environmental & Biodiversity Informatics.  221 pages, Springer.
  48. Spyromitros-Xioufs, A. Moumtzidou, S. Papadopoulos, S. Vrochidis, Y. Kompatsiaris, A. K. Georgoulias, G. Alexandri, K. Kourtidis. "Towards improved air quality monitoring using publicly available sky images". In Multimedia Technologies for Environmental & Biodiversity Informatics, 20 June 2018. OPEN ACCESS
  49. M. Riga, E. Kontopoulos, K. Karatzas, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "An Ontology-based Decision Support Framework for Personalized Quality of Life Recommendations", in 4th International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST2018), 22-25 May 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. OPEN ACCESS
  50. E. Kosmidis, P. Syropoulou, S. Tekes, P. Schneider, E. Spyromitros-Xioufis, M. Riga, P. Charitidis, A. Moumtzidou, S. Papadopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Stavrakas, G. Hloupis, A. Loukidis, K. Kourtidis, A.Georgoulias, and G. Alexandri. "hackAIR: Towards raising Awareness about Air Quality in Europe by developing a Collective Online Platform". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information , 7, 12 May 2018. OPEN ACCESS
  51. K. Avgerinakis, A. Moumtzidou, S. Andreadis, E. Michail, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Visual and textual analysis of social media and satellite images for flood detection", in Multimedia Satellite task of MediaEval 2017.
  52. A. Moumtzidou, S. Papadopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, K. Kourtidis, G. Hloupis, I. Stavrakas, K. Papachristopoulou, and C. Keratidis,"Towards Air Quality Estimation Using Collected Multimodal Environmental Data", 1st International Workshop on Internet and Social media for Environmental Monitoring (In conjunction with the 3rd international conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2016), Florence, Italy, 12 September 2016. OPEN ACCESS
  53. A. Moumtzidou, S. Papadopoulos, S. Vrochidis I. Kompatsiaris, K. Kourtidis, G. Hloupis, I. Stavrakas, K. Papachristopoulou, C. Keratidis, "Collection of Multimodal Environmental Data for Air Quality Estimation", in Proc. of 1st International Workshop on the Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring (SWEEM), Cologne, Germany, 17 May 2016. OPEN ACCESS
  54. S. Vrochidis, K. Karatzas, A. Karppinen, A. Joly (Eds). (2016). Guest Editorial: Environmental Multimedia Retrieval. Multimedia Tools Appl. 75(3): 1557-1562, 28 January 2016. OPEN ACCESS
  55. L. Wanner, M. Rospocher, S. Vrochidis, L. Johansson, N. Bouayad-Aghae, G. Casamayor, A. Karppinen, I. Kompatsiaris, S. Millee, A. Moumtzidou, L. Serafini. "Ontology-centered environmental information delivery for personalized decision support". Expert Systems With Applications, Volume 42, Issue 12, 15 July 2015, Pages 5032–5046. OPEN ACCESS
  56. S. Vrochidis, K. Karatzas, A. Karppinen, A. Joly, A. B. Albu (Eds.). (2015). EMR ’15: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval. Shanghai, China,Association for Computing Machinery, 30 June 2015.
  57. T. Tsikrika, A. Latas, A. Moumtzidou, E. Chatzilari, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris,"Discovery of Environmental Web Resources Based on the Combination of Multimedia Evidence", in 2nd International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval (EMR 2015), Shanghai, China, June 23, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2764873.2764876
  58. A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris. "Discovery, Analysis and Retrieval of Multimodal Environmental Information". Third Edition. IGI Global, 1 June 2015. 4528-4542. OPEN ACCESS
  59. T. Tsikrika, A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris. "Focussed Crawling of Environmental Web Resources Based on the Combination of Multimedia Evidence, Multimedia Tools and Applications". May 2015, pp 1-25, 31 May 2015. OPEN ACCESS
  60. V. Epitropou, T. Bassoukos, K. Karatzas, A. Karppinen, L. Wanner, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, J. Kukkonen. "Environmental data extraction from heatmaps using the AirMerge system". Multimedia Tools and Applications, May 2015. pp. 1-25, 7 May 2015. OPEN ACCESS
  61. L. Wanner, H. Bosch, N. Bouayad-Agha, G. Casamayor, T. Ertl, D. Hilbring, L. Johansson, K. Karatzas, A. Karppinen, I. Kompatsiaris, T. Koskentalo, S. Mille, J. Mossgraber, A. Moumtzidou, M. Myllynen, E. Pianta, M. Rospocher, L. Serafini, V. Tarvainen, S. Tonelli, S. Vrochidis. "Getting the environmental information across: From the web to the user". Expert Systems, 15 December 2014. OPEN ACCESS
  62. L. Johansson, V. Epitropou, K. Karatzas, A. Karppinen, L. Wanner, S. Vrochidis, A. Bassoukos, J. Kukkonen, I. Kompatsiaris. "Fusion of meteorological and air quality data extracted from the web for personalized environmental information services". Environmental Modeling and Software Journal, 2015, Volume 64, February 2015, pp. 143–155, 12 December 2014. OPEN ACCESS
  63. T. Tsikrika, A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "Focused Crawling of Environmental Web Resources: A Pilot Study on the Combination of Multimedia Evidence", in Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval (EMR 2014), Glasgow, UK, April 1, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-015-2624-3
  64. S. Vrochidis, K. Karatzas, A. Karppinen, A. Joly, (Eds.). (2014). EMR ’14: Proceedings of the 1nd International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval. Glasgow, UK, 1 April 2014, CEUR, Vol 1222.
  65. L. Johansson, V. Epitropou, K. Karatzas, L. Wanner, A. Karppinen, J. Kukkonen, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "The extraction and fusion of meteorological and air quality information for orchestrated services", in proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval (EMR 2014), Glasgow, UK, April 1, 2014.
  66. D. Hilbring, A. Moumtzidou, J. Mossgraber and S. Vrochidis, "Semantically Enriching an Open Source SOS Implementation for Accessing Heterogeneous Environmental Data Sources", The Global Conference for Open Source Geospatial Software, Nottingham, UK, September 17-21, 2013.
  67. A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis, E. Chatzilari and I. Kompatsiaris, "Discovery of Environmental Resources based on Heatmap Recognition", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2013), Melbourne, Australia, September 15-18, 2013.
  68. A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Discovery of Weather Forecast Web Resources based on Ontology and Content-driven Hierarchical Classification", in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN 2013), Halkidiki, Greece, 13-16 September, 2013. Communi-cations in Computer and Information Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 383, pp. 223-232.
  69. A. Moumtzidou, V. Epitropou, S. Vrochidis, K. Karatzas, S. Voth, A. Bassoukos, J. Mossgraber, A. Karppinen, J. Kukkonen and I. Kompatsiaris. "A Model for Environmental Data Extraction from Multimedia and its Evaluation against various Chemical Weather Forecasting Datasets". Journal of Ecological Informatics, pp. 69-82, 2014, special issue, ISSN 1574-9541, 4 September 2013. OPEN ACCESS
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