SciDrones

The company is a natural result of 6 years of intensive work on UAS technology and visualization of the geoinformation conducted in the University of the Aegean. It will gain from the produced knowledge acquired from the university environment and transform it into a modern valuable product for society.​

The Marine Remote Sensing Group (MRSG) (http://mrsg.aegean.gr) of the Department of Marine Sciences of Aegean University was created in 2014 aiming of developing methods and processes for the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the collection, mapping, and visualization of spatial information in the sciences of Geoinformatics, Remote Sensing, and Cartography. The team conducts research on the exploration, analysis and imaging of satellite and UAS data. It combines image processing algorithms and on-site measurements to develop new methods, technologies and products for the visual representation of geospatial information. The team has participated in several international, national or development-design projects such as: MARISCA, ERABeach, MARINE-EO, DRAGON, THAL-HOR, EDK ARSx2, MARRE, ARGO, AQUASAFE. Head of MRSG is Dr Konstantinos Topouzelis, which will act as SCO of SciDrones.

Taking into account the demand for future UAS mapping products and the success of the MRSG projects, the team decided to create the startup "SciDrones", in order to promote its knowledge for solving major environmental problems that require special remote sensing techniques.