Presentations

Welcome Session

Introduction to Scent
Angelos Amditis – Scent Project Coordinator, Research Director, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, Greece

Environmental Observation in the EU: Latest Developments and Perspectives
Izabela Freytag – Project Advisor, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EASME), European Commission

Smart Technologies for Citizen-Driven Flood Monitoring and Management

Scent applications: citizens in the epicenter of environmental monitoring
Stefano Tamascelli – CEO and Founder, XTeam Software Solutions srls, Italy

Land cover and land use annotation with automated methods
Joseph Shtok – Research Scientist, Computer Vision and Augmented Reality, IBM Research AI, Israel

Platform for managing, storing and providing data produced by citizens in an interoperable way
Valantis Tsiakos – Project Manager, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, Greece

Use of crowdsourced data for improvement of flood modelling for better decision making
Ioana Popescu – Associate Professor of Hydroinformatics, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands

Interactive Demonstration

The Scent Toolbox
Daniele Miorandi, CEO, U-Hopper srl, Italy

Citizen Science Success Stories and Lessons Learned for Upscaling Such Initiatives

An overview of the LandSense Citizen Observatory and the WeObserve Ecosystem
Inian Moorthy, Research Scholar, Center for Earth Observation and Citizen Science, IIASA, Austria

Large-scale citizen observatories for flood monitoring and prevention: The Scent Project
Harris Georgiou, Search and Rescue / Emergency Medical Care – First Responder, Hellenic Rescue Team of Attica, Greece

From soil to sky: citizen scientists on a changing climate mission
Pavlos Georgiadis, Community Manager at GROW Observatory, Greece