Androniki Tsouchlaraki

• Office: Κ2.116
• Tel.: +30 28210 37787 FAX: +30 28210 37887
• Email: niki.tsouchlaraki<at>chenveng.tuc.gr
   
• Office Hours: Daily 9:00 - 14:00

• 1997: PhD, Division of Geography and Regional Planning, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA.
• 1991: Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA.

Research Unit of Geodesy and Geographic Information Systems was founded in September 2006, aiming to teach and conduct research on issues related to:

• Capture and design parts of Natural Earth Surface with modern geodetic instruments and using appropriate software.
• The introduction and use of GIS and design applications in environmental issues.

• 1991- 2002 Participation in NTUA projects:  participated in 12 SRSE NTUA projects, including a full range of activities, from collecting , processing and analysis of data, to the organizing, coordinating and supervising of the scientific team.
• Scientific supervisor of research projects at the TUC
• July 2008 – October 2011 “Development of Indices for the recording of the Environmental Quality of city streets, using GIS – GPS”, Basic Research project, 2008, TUC.
• Organizational and Scientific Supervisor of Workshops: “The Capacities of the Arc GIS platform”, 21/10/16, TUC. In cooperation with representatives from the Data Marathon Systems company.
• “Surveillance technologies and environmental protection, an interdisciplinary approach”, 13/01/17, co organized by the TUC, TCG – Department of Western Crete, and the Law Association of Chania.

• 1991: Due to the completion of studies in 4.5 years – less than the expected length of 5 years -  I was awarded the Diploma of Rural Surveying Engineer by Resolution of the NTUA Senate. Fourth best graduate in the SRSE out of 75 graduates.
• 1991 - 1994: Scholarship by the SSF, following written exams, for the undertaking of a Doctoral Dissertation on specialization 73085, “Urban and Regional Planning”.
• 1994 - 1997: NTUA Scholarship, by approval of the General Assembly of the SRSE, for the continuation of the Doctoral Dissertation.
• 2001- 2002: SSF Scholarship for undertaking postgraduate research on Scientific Discipline 007 “ Geography , Geology, Oceanography”, Scientific subdiscipline 007 060 “ Geodesy, Mapping, Photogrammetry and Telescopy”.
• 2003: `Hellenic Diploma of Patent, ΟΒΙ, 20030100417, N.Uzuloglou, C.Cassios, S.Mougiakakou, A.Tsouchlaraki, K.Nikita, G.Matsoploulos, “Metric Arrangement of Landscape Category with Artificial Neural Networks.”

Books

• A.Tsouchlaraki, G.Achilleos, “Hands – on learning of the GIS – the ArcGIS 9.3”, 2010, Disigma Public., ISBN : 978-960-99048-4-1
• A.Tsouchlaraki, G.Achilleos, “Hands – on learning of the GIS – the ArcGIS 9.3”, 2015, Disigma Public., ISBN : 978-960-99048-4-1.
•  A.Tsouchlaraki, G.Achilleos, N. Kourgialas “Hands – on learning of the GIS – the ArcGIS 10.5”, 2019, Disigma Public., ISBN : 978-618-5242-57-2.

Chapters in Books

• Androniki Tsouchlaraki, Christina Gioti, Evaggelos Gidarakos, Georgios Achilleos, “A GIS analysis of  landscape cetegories and sensitivity levels for evaluating visual impacts of  N.I.M.B.Y Technical projects”, Natural Environment and Culture in the Mediterranean Region II, chapter twenty eight, Editors: Recep Efe, Munir Ozturk and Ibrahim Atalay, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, ISBN (10): 1-4438-2986-2, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-2986-1, pp. 375-394.
•  A. Tsouchlaraki, G. Achilleos, V. Mantadaki, “Statistical Analysis of Environmental Quality Indices in an Urban Street Network”, Advances in Spatial Planning, Edited by Dr. Jaroslav Burian, INTECH,  2012  ISBN 978-953-51-0377-6, 201, pp.197-220.

Publications in peer review journals

• Zina Mitraka, Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Yiannis Kamarianakis, Panagiotis Partsinevelos, Androniki Tsouchlaraki, "Improving the estimation of urban surface emissivity based on sub-pixel classification of high resolution satellite imagery", Urban Environments Special Issue of Remote Sensing of Environment, Elsevier, vol.117, pp.125-134, 2012.
• A. Tsouchlaraki, G. Achilleos, "An extended Urban Street Network Classification Methodology: Defining the Environmental Quality Classes using Remotely Sensed Multispectral Data", Special Issue of Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, Taylor & Francis, vol.29, issue 4, pp.239-254, 2012.
• Vasileios Dimitrakis, Tsouchlaraki Androniki, “Seismic Activity Analysis Using GIS in the Western Part of Crete Island, Southern Greece” Frontiers in Geosciences, American V-King Scientific Publishing, issue 3, vol.2, pp.41-52,  2014.
•  Vasileios Dimitrakis, Tsouchlaraki Androniki, “Using GIS in Highlighting Seismic – Safe Sites for Large Scale Buildings in the Western Part of Crete Island, Southern Greece”, Frontiers in Geosciences, American V-King Scientific Publishing, volume 3, number 1, pp.1-10, 2015.
• Giatrakis Georgios, Kourgialas N. Nektarios, Tsouchlaraki Androniki, Maria Efpraxia, Dokou Zoi, “Could Photovoltaic Parks be More Profitable as an Investment Compared to Tree Crops in Mediterranean Water Scarce Regions?”, Scientific Review, Vol. 5, Issue. 7, pp:124-131, 2019, https://arpweb.com/journal/10/archive/07-2019/7/5.

• [ENVE 133]  Computer Aided Design (3rd Semester – Required)
• [ENVE 224] Geographical Information Systems (4th Semester – Required)
• [ENVE 162] Geodesy (6th Semester – EnvE - Required)

• Vasileios Dimitrakis
• Nikos Polakis