October 2023
CUT – POLIMI meeting
A tele-meeting was organised earlier today between the project coordinator, Dr. Athos Agapiou and the POLIMI PI, Dr. Branka Cuca to discuss ongoing issues related to the ENGINEER project. The discussed topics included an overview of the activities conducted so far and the issues related to the upcoming interim report.
ENGINEER at the Summer School “Re-envisioning Cultural Heritage Documentation in the Metaverse Age”
Dr A. Agapiou was invited to the Summer School “Re-envisioning Cultural Heritage Documentation in the Metaverse Age”, organized by the ERA Chair of Digital Heritage and the UNESCO Chair. The summer school took place between 23-27 October 2023 at the Pefkos hotel in Limassol. Dr Agapiou’s talk was focused on the use of non-contact remote sensing approaches for cultural heritage. The title of the presentation was “Earth Observation for Cultural Heritage: an overview of applications.”
New Publication @ Heritage
A new publication was released earlier today by the Heritage MDPI journal. The joint publication of A. Agapiou and D. Skarlatos is entitled as “Geomatic Sensors for Heritage Documentation: A Meta-Analysis of the Scientific Literature”. Abstract: This review paper aims to provide a meta-analysis of the scientific literature for heritage documentation and monitoring using geo-information sensors. The study initially introduces the main types of geomatic sensors that are nowadays widely used for heritage studies. Although the list provided here is not...
MSc Students re-use ENGINEER Summer School Data
MSc students enrolled at the “Geoinformatics and Earth Observation” Master Programme of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at CUT, are elaborating low altitude drone RGB images captured as part of the first summer school of the ENGINEER project. This exercise is part of the MSc course GEO 554 “Digital Imaging, Photogrammetry & Computer Vision”, directed by Prof. Dimitrios Skarlatos. The purpose is to familiarize students with advance photogrammetric skills and relevant software for air triangulation and orthophoto production...
Short-term staff exchange 2 (SE2) and Workshop 2 (W2), CUT team members visited Aveiro (WP4 and WP2)
CUT team had the opportunity to visit the University of Aveiro as part of the second short-term staff exchange (SE2) and Workshop 2 (W2). The CUT team was exposed to the UAVEIRO equipment while dedicated lectures were provided as part of the second workshop. The visit held as a 2-day event in Aveiro (Portugal), hosted by the University of Aveiro (UA). The above activities are implemented within the context of WP4 and WP2, respectively. The UA team welcomed CUT staff at...September 2023
ENGINEER @ Researcher’s Night
ENGINEER project was present at the Researcher's Night event, organized by the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus, that took place on Friday, September 29th 2023 in Nicosia. The European Researchers’ Night celebrating research, innovation and science, organized in Cyprus by the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) since 2006, was organised once again this year under the title Mission: INSPIRE. During the event, scientists, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to leave their research labs and offices for...
ENGINEER @ SIFET – Convegno
ENGINEER project was presented by our POLIMI PI Dr Branka Cuca at the SIFET - Convegno SIFET 2023 conference. The title of the presentation was “Geomatica e Ingegneria civile si incontrano per una ricerca innovativa sui beni culturali: le prime esperienze dal progetto "Engineer". SIFET was organizing the 65th National Conference in Arezzo from 27 to 29 September 2023, in the exhibition spaces of "Arezzo Fiere e Congressi". SIFET provided an opportunity to reflect on the use of geomatic...
Virtual Lecture (VT2): “Proposal writing webinar”
The 1st part of Virtual Training 2 (VT2) entitled “Proposal writing webinar” of the ENGINEER Project has been successfully accomplished on September 18th (12:30-14:30 BST). The event makes part of a series of five virtual lectures in the framework of the WP3 of Project entitled as “Research management and administrative skills”. The lecture was hosted by the University College London (UCL). The 2nd part of the virtual training is scheduled for the 26th of October 2023.
