Summary
Ioannis Kotaridis is an image analyst and surveying engineer with eight years of hands-on experience in GIS, remote sensing and Earth observation, currently serving as Image Analyst/Project Officer for Copernicus SESA. He builds end-to-end processing pipelines and delivers rapid mapping and high-resolution vector products for emergency response and environmental monitoring, combining Sentinel and commercial satellite data with positioning technologies. A Pythonista and author of the Terminus QGIS plugin for image segmentation, he blends applied research (PhD-level training in Remote Sensing & GIS) with production workflows and AI-enabled object detection. Based in the Madrid metropolitan area, he has a track record across Copernicus services, SAR/oil-seep detection and land suitability mapping, and is skilled at turning diverse geospatial inputs into operational intelligence.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
English, Italian, Greek, German