About me...
My name is Stamatina Tounta and I hold a BSc (with distinction) in Geography from the Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. I recently received my master's degree from the MSc Applied Geoinformatics program at the University of Salzburg (PLUS).
Additionally, I am working as a GIS Analyst at Spatial Services GmbH in Salzburg, Austria, where I also completed an internship as an ERASMUS+ Intern (2022) in the Humanitarian Earth Observation department. In my current position, my responsibilities include gis analysis for humanitarian applications like dwelling extraction, density, and change, flood mapping, and habitat mapping.
During my studies, I became particularly interested in Earth Observation (EO) - Remote Sensing (RS), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Thus, my bachelor's thesis topic was about the detection and mapping of Total Suspended Matter in transboundary river estuaries in Greece using Copernicus Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, and Sentinel-1 earth observation data and the C2RCC algorithm.
During my master's studies, my interest in EO water-quality applications deepened, leading to several relevant projects that used different tools, data, and algorithms each time. Of course, my master's thesis was also related to the water-quality field and was titled "Intercomparison of chlorophyll-a concentration estimation models in inland waters using Sentinel-2 MSI satellite imagery: a case study of Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva".
I have also completed an internship (2020) at the National Observatory of Athens in the Remote Sensing field, where I worked on an environmental study using time series of Copernicus Sentinel-2 data.
I'm also a member of the "HUA Earth Observation Team" at the Harokopio University of Athens, where together with my teammates I conduct small research projects in Earth Observation.
In July 2025, I participated in the Living Planet Symposium 2025 with a poster presentation. The poster was part of my master's thesis and was titled: "Intercomparison of chlorophyll-a concentration estimation models in inland waters using Sentinel-2 MSI satellite imagery: a case study of Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva". It is available on the symposium's website.
In May 2022 I had the opportunity to present my bachelor's thesis as a poster at the Living Planet Symposium, which was held in Bonn, Germany. The title of the poster was "Detection and mapping of Total Suspended Matter in estuaries of transboundary rivers in Greece using Copernicus earth observation satellite data" and is available through ResearchGate.
In October 2022 I had the chance to present a poster at the 16th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece with the title "Detection and Monitoring of Total Suspended Matter (TSM) in South Evoikos Gulf, Greece after the flood event on the 9th of August 2020", which is also available on ResearchGate.