Working Group 3.3: Dr. Chryssy Potsiou


Dr. Chryssy Alex. Potsiou
Address: 47 Vassilissis Sofias Ave, 10676 Athens, Greece
Email: chryssyp@survey.ntua.gr
Email: cpotsiou@central.ntua.gr

Place of birth: Athens
Date of birth: 16.1.59
Marital status: married to Dr. Ioannidis Charalabos

 

 

ACTIVITIES
She graduated from the School for Rural & Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1982, and was awarded with the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) scholarship for her academic performance. She has received a four-year scholarship from the NTUA to carryout doctoral studies in the fields of Photogrammetry and Cadastre. The title of her Ph.D. thesis was "Digital Cartographic Data for the Hellenic Cadastre". During her graduate studies she has worked as teaching assistant in all classes offered by the NTUA in the fields of Photogrammetry, Cadastre, and Cartography. Also, during that period, she was elected as the graduate student representative at the General Assembly of the Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering. In addition, she has contributed to committees related to the development of graduate programmes of that department. Since 1992, she has been employed as Special Research and Teaching Scientist at the Lab of Photogrammetry, Topography Division, School for Rural and Surveying Engineering, NTUA. At the same time, she has been working as a consultant in several research projects in the domains of:

  • aerial photography of archaeological sites
  • cadastre
  • architectural photogrammetry, detailed photogrammetric restitutions of complicated monuments, digital photogrammetric documentation of castles
  • cartography and urban planning
  • GIS

She was a member of the organizing committees for:

  • two scientific meetings organized by the NTUA on the Hellenic Cadastre (HC)
  • the International Meeting of Commission VI of ISPRS for Educational and Financial matters (Rhodes, 1990)
  • the International Symposium of CIPA (Delphi, 1991)
  • the International Meeting for the HC organized by HEMCO and FIG Com 7 (Athens, 1996)
  • the FIG Com3 Annual Meeting and Workshop organized in Athens, 2000 (chairperson of the organizing committee)
  • the UN-FIG joined Workshop on Land Administration to be held in Athens, in the year 2003
  • the FIG Working Week & General Assembly to be held in Athens, in the year 2004

In her professional career, she has:

  • attended the FIG, ISPRS and C.I.P.A. (for Architectural Photogrammetry) meetings since 1982.
  • attended (MOLA) WPLA and (CERCO) EuroGeographics meetings since her involvement in the Hellenic Cadastre Project (1996)
  • presented and published about 36 papers in various meetings and journals in the fields of Photogrammetry, Cadastre and SDI
  • given lectures about GIS, Photogrammetry and Cadastre at the NTUA, the TCG, and the Technical Chamber of Cyprus
  • been elected as a member of the Council of the Hellenic Society for Photogrammetry and RS for the period 1992-2000
  • been Chair of FIG WG 3.1 "Spatial Information Management- Technical aspects" for the period 1998-2002
  • been National Delegate and member of the TCG committee, that submitted the bid, in Sun City, for hosting the FIG General Assembly in Athens in the year 2004
  • been working as management-advisor for educational and technical issues at the KTIMATOLOGIO S.A., agency responsible for the implementation of the Hellenic Cadastre, 1998-end of 2001
  • been elected as member of the UN-ECE-Working Party for Land Administration Bureau, since 2001
  • been Chair of FIG WG 3.3 "State of the Art of SDIs", since April 2002, acting also as Vice-Chair of Com3

She speaks English (C.P.E. Cambridge level) and German (Mittelstufe level, Goethe Institut).