Assistant Professor in Geoinformatics and Earth Observation,
Department of Civil Engineering & Geomatics, Cyprus University of Technology

athos.agapiou[at]cut.ac[dot]cy

Dr Athos Agapiou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at the Cyprus University of Technology. He obtained his diploma from the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (2005). Two years later, in 2007, he obtained an MSc in Geoinformatics from the same academic institution. In addition, he holds an MA from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus (2010). In 2013, he received his PhD from the Cyprus University of Technology in the domain of “Remote Sensing Archaeology”.

During the last years, he has been involved in more than 50 research projects at a European (H2020), regional (JPI-CH; Interreg) and local level (Research and Innovation Foundation, A.G. Leventis etc.). He has authored numerous publications in scientific journals and conferences. More details regarding his publication record you can find at Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar as well as Research Gate. Information regarding project activities can be found on the webpage of the Earth Observation Cultural Heritage Research Lab

Project website: https://web.cut.ac.cy/eocult

Research interests

• Remote sensing archaeology
• Earth observation and landscapes
• GIS applications in archaeology
• Image processing and integrated techniques for heritage management

Select publications

Agapiou A., Vionnis A., Papantoniou G., 2021, Detection of Archaeological Surface Ceramics using Deep Learning Image-Based Methods and Very High-Resolution UAV imageries, Land, 10(12), 1365; doi.org/10.3390/land10121365

Agapiou A., 2021, UNESCO World Heritage properties in changing and dynamic environments: change detection methods using optical and radar satellite data. Heritage Science 9, 64. doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00542-z

Agapiou A., 2021, Multi-Temporal Change Detection Analysis of Vertical Sprawl over Limassol City Centre and Amathus Archaeological Site in Cyprus during 2015–2020 Using the Sentinel-1 Sensor and the Google Earth Engine Platform. Sensors 2021, 21, 1884. doi.org/10.3390/s21051884

Agapiou A., Sarris A., 2019, Working with Gaussian random noise for multi-sensor archaeological prospection: Fusion of Ground Penetrating Radar Depth Slices and Ground Spectral Signatures from 0.00m to 0.60m below ground surface, Remote Sensing, 11, 1895.

Agapiou A., Sarris A., Beyond GIS Layering: Challenging the (Re)use and Fusion of Archaeological Prospection Data Based on Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN) Remote Sensing, 2018, 10, 1762

Agapiou A., Lysandrou V., Sarris A., Papadopoulos N., Hadjimitsis D. G., 2017, Fusion of satellite multispectral images based on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data for the investigation of buried concealed archaeological remains, Geosciences, 2017, 7(2), 40 (more than 2,000 downloads)

Agapiou A., 2017, Remote Sensing Heritage in a petabyte-scale: Satellite Data and Heritage Earth Engine© applications, International Journal of Digital Earth, 10, (1), 85-102, 10.1080/17538947.2016.1250829 (more than 2,200 downloads)

Agapiou A., Lysandrou V., 2015, Remote Sensing Archaeology: Tracking and mapping evolution in scientific literature, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.09.010 (most cited paper ever in JAS: Reports).