Netwet 3 Project Monograph on Lefkada Meeting 11 December
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European Union Hellenic Republic Directorate General for Regional Policy Ministry of Economy & Finance (E.R.D. Funds) (Public Investments Programme) NetWet 3 Project “New forms of Territorial governance for the promotion of landscape policies in the field of water resources management at water territories.” Monograph on Lefkada meeting 11 December 2006 Task: 6.4 EU Community Initiative Interreg III B ArchiMed KEPEMEP-MedRegio Coordinator of NetWet 3 project Professor Ioannis Hatzopoulos University of Aegean Project Partner no 12 Scientific responsible University of Aegean Lefkada meeting11/12/2006 Monograph by Project partner P12, Prof. Ioannis Hatzopoulos 1. Introduction Lefkada meeting took place on the 11/12/2006 and it was a transnational meeting with partners from Greece and Italy. The meeting offered two sessions and a round table. The first session included the presentation of the community partnership of NetWet 3 and the cognitive background for the implementation of NetWet 3. The second session was on managerial issues and it gave detail information on financial management of NetWet 3 project. The round table discussion included discussion on governance and landscape policies in the water territories of NetWork 3 project: “aquis” and perspectives for extension of new programmatic period of European Union (2007 – 2013). 2. Presentation: Activities related to the NetWet3 project at the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Aegean 2.1 Presentation summary This presentation will try to introduce some of the activities of the laboratory of Remote Sensing and GIS at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Aegean (RSLUA), which are related to the project. Such activities focus on environmental management and involve: education and didactics, remote sensing and GIS, urban development and water resources. Following is given information related to those activities at RSLUA. 2.2 Education and didactics The function of RSLUA is to provide support to the Department of Environmental Studies teaching and research to an interdisciplinary program which has 3-Sectors of undergraduate program serving approximately 300 students as follows: 1. Ecosystem management 2. Environmental Engineering 3. Environmental planning In same Department there are also 3-postgraduate programs leading to MS and Ph.D. degrees serving approximately 100 students as follows: 1. Environmental Policy management 2. Environmental Engineering 3. Environment and Agriculture Didactics philosophy involves the use of most sophisticated equipment of computer technology, space and geospatial information & technology where the trained student or scientist is always “smarter” than the machine. This philosophy is implemented by studying basic scientific aspects together with environmental applications when using such technologies. It is followed the E. Gross model where: Problem-based learning is an educational approach in which learners work together to find a solution to a “real world problem”. The problem serves as a stimulus and framework for learning which is different from the traditional teaching practices, mainly lectures, where knowledge is transmitted through the instructor. In their efforts to solve the problem learners develop skills in collecting, evaluating, and synthesizing resources. Above all problem-based learning helps students become self-directed learners. RSLUA-Enhanced E. Gross model: The instructor should have the capacity to develop educational software for solving a “real world problem” and helping students to do so. RSLUA views on education are as follows: Education, according to Plato (The Republic), is responsible to develop a healthy and balanced thought “…if the body is sick needs medical attention, if thought is sick needs education”. Healthy thought exists if the logic state of thought controls an balances the two other states of thought namely desire and anger Plato (The Republic). Example: Coachman (logic) of a wagon pulled up by a blind horse (desire) and a crazy horse (anger) has to keep control and balance over the two horses to move on the correct way” Correct way = midway of virtue Virtue according to Aristotle (The Nikomacheian Ethics) is: “a mid way between two extreme positions, or badness”. Example (Aristotle:The Nikomacheian Ethics) : virtue “brave” lays in midway between the coward and the provocative and the coward will see brave as provocative (underestimate of virtue) while the provocative will see brave as coward (overestimate of virtue). Similarly virtue “thrifty” is the midway between stinginess and overspending. 1. Education is the development of healthy thought to those who follow the way of virtue. 2. Training is the development of healthy thought on a specific field (i. e. the environment) to those who follow the way of virtue. 3. Thought is one of the three states of human mind before one does or acts upon something. These states are: (a) logic, (b) desire and (c) anger. Thought designates all actions performed by a person at present and future and always precedes the action. 4. Healthy thought exists when the logic state of human mind controls over and balances the other two states of the mind, namely desire and anger. 5. Healthy action exists when it is done under healthy state of mind and follows the way of virtue. 6. Virtue is the action of a person who follows the midway between two extreme positions or badness. Responsibility, for example, is a virtue and is between irresponsibility and over-responsibility (fear for not being responsible). 7. The person of virtue is the one who tries to follow the way of virtue; s/he is characterized by the effort to maintain the way of virtue (midway). 8. An action of virtue is the effort of an action to maintain the way of virtue (midway). 9. Justice is the supreme virtue and incorporates all virtues. 10. Democratic rules are those procedures which determine the midway of virtue. Following is a short description of RSLUA laboratory and its activities: UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN ∙ DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES LABORATORY OF REMOTE SENSING & GIS Director: John N. Hatzopoulos Description The Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory at University of Aegean (RSLUA) was established officially in 1995. It belongs to the Department of Environmental Studies and it is located in the city of Mytilene in the island of Lesvos. The Laboratory supports research and educational activities in the field of Topographic Mapping with emphasis to the methods of: Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, photointerpretation, surveying, related computer applications, and their contribution to the observation, study and monitoring of the earth’s natural environment. It also deals with the development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for management and processing of environmental data. The RLSUA is a member of EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories). Lab Director: Professor John N. Hatzopoulos Personnel • Evagelos Papapanagiotou, Ph. D., Post doctoral researcher • Paronis Dimitrios, Ph.D. candidate • Xristos Vasilakos, Ph.D. candidate • Chrysomalli Xoriatelli , Ph.D. candidate • Athina Santorinaiou, Ph.D. candidate • Filindas Agathos, Ph.D. candidate • Christakopoulos Pavlos, , Ph.D. candidate • Evaggelou Fokion, Lab secretary Ph.D. degrees worked out at the laboratory 1. Kitsiou Dimitra,1998, (supervisor Prof. Karydis) 2. Gazis Dimitrios, 1999 (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos) 3. Papapanagiotou Evaggelos 2000 (supervisor Prof. Hatzopoulos) 4. Dimitriou Konstadinos 2002 (supervisor Prof. Kokkosis) 5. Chatzichristofas Fratzis, 2005 (supervisor Prof. Karydis) Equipment The Laboratory is equipped with latest development on H/W, S/W including large collection of workstations under MS - Windows and several Unix workstations. Among specialized software available to the Laboratory includes the following: • Erdas Imagine (10 licenses), • ArcGis (25 licenses), • Intergraph Geomedia GIS (11 licenses), • IDRISI 32 (11 licenses) • MS Development Studio (11 licenses) • Photomodeler (1-license) • Autocad (1-license) The Laboratory has at its disposal the following equipment: • Spectrophotometers and instruments for Photogrammetry and remote sensing • Two systems of Softcopy photogrammetry of Intergraph ImageStation together with al software for remote sensing and GIS. • Surveying systems with compasses, electronic distance measuring theodolite, and several GPS receivers. • Three digital image cameras • One digital camera and one digital movie camera in thermal region photography Laboratory activities The Laboratory has developed significant research activities and consulting services with various recipients. In parallel to these activities, the Laboratory supports the University of the Aegean’s educational effort, by offering undergraduate and post graduate courses, organizing workshops, lectures, seminars etc. Services The Laboratory has developed advanced know-how and offers services in the following fields: Remote Sensing: Land cover, land use, river basins, global change, natural hazards, sea water quality, air quality, agrometeorological parameters, algorithms and software development. Geographic Information Systems: System design and development, digital terrain models and applications, environmental models and applications, algorithms and software development. Photogrammetry: Analog, analytical and digital photogrammetry, space photogrammetry, Non Topographic Photogrammetry, Cartographic Mapping, Orthophotography, Photogrammetric Mapping of dynamic objects