Research

Projects

• Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH) – U.S. National Science Foundation Center Catalyst (2023)

• Enabling Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction and Response throughout the disaster life cycle with a multi-scale toolbox - Supported by NASA's Applied Science Disasters Program - University of Michigan (2022-2023)

• Smart interdisciplinary coastal zone monitoring support system for infrastructure: Urban - Industrial - Critical infrastructure, using interoperable technologies – University of the Aegean (2020-2022)

• Multi-hazard assessment in five (5) hot-spot areas in Evritania prefecture, Greece – Mitigation strategies and preparedness – NTUA (2021-2022)

• Rockfall Hazard Analysis and Mitigation planning at “Therma” in Kos island, Greece – NTUA (2021)

• Landslide and Rockfall Hazard Analysis at “Spiliani” Monastery in Nisiros island, Greece – NTUA (2021)

• Engineering Geological assessment of sliding phenomena in eight (8) villages of Argithea Municipality, Greece - EAGME (2021)

• EPIPELAGIC - RIS3, Bilateral and Multilateral R&D Greece-China collaboration, “Centers of excellence for environmental studies - Environment & Sustainable Growth and Climate Change” – University of the Aegean (2021-2022)

• Development of workflow for the protection and optimal management of karst aquifers supplying aqueducts of the Municipality of Kozani - Aristotle Univesrity of Thessaloniki (2020)

• “IANOS” post disaster reconnaissance program - U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) (2020)

• Engineering Geological and Geotechnical assessment at the Monastery of Temptations, Jericho, Palestine (2019-2020)

• ERMIS - “EaRthquake disasters Management Integrated System” - Interreg V-A Greece-Italy 2014-2020 (2019)

• Geological investigation and rock fall hazard assessment and support measures proposal of the slopes of Red Beach and of Apothikes area, Municipality of Thira (2018)

• TAP Trans-Adriatic Pipeline "Seismic Design Study, Assessment of Earthquake Loading & Seismic Response (Extension Phase A’) of the trans-Adriatic pipeline (TAP)" (2015)

Peer review publications

• Karantanellis E., Clark M., Zekkos D., Hughes K. (2025) "Landslide inventory of Puerto Rico after the 2022 Hurricane Fiona", DesignSafe-CI.

• Karantanellis E., Clark M., Zekkos D., Hughes K. S., Blunts P. (2025) Regional Engineering Geological assessment and Rock Mass Strength parameterization for Landslide Hazard, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (Under submission)

• Karantanellis E., Clark M. K., Zekkos D. and Willis M. J. (2025) Landslide volume estimation for the November 2016 M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake using satellite derived topography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (Under submission)

• Karantanellis E. and Hölbling D. (2025) Machine learning and object-based image analysis for landside mapping using UAV-derived data (Book chapter in Earth Observation Applications to Landslide Mapping, Monitoring and Modeling, ISBN: 9780128241981)

• Marinos V., Farmakis I., Chatzitheodosiou T., Papouli D., Stoumbos G., Prountzopoulos G., Karantanellis E. (2024) Remote Sensing Integration to Geohazard Management at the Castle-Monastery of Panagia Spiliani, Nisyros Island, Greece. Remote Sensing; 16(15):2768. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16152768

• Taftsoglou, M., Valkaniotis S., Papathanassiou G., and Karantanellis E., (2023) Satellite Imagery for Rapid Detection of Liquefaction Surface Manifestations: The Case Study of Türkiye–Syria 2023 Earthquakes, Remote Sensing 15, no. 17: 4190. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174190

• Farmakis I., Karantanellis E., Hutchinson D. J., Vlachopoulos N., Marinos V., (2022) Superpixel and Supervoxel Segmentation Assessment of Landslides using UAV-Derived Models, Remote Sens., 14, 5668. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14225668

• Valkaniotis S., Papathanassiou G., Marinos V., Saroglou C, Zekkos D., Kallimogiannis V., Karantanellis E., Farmakis I., Zalachoris G., Manousakis J., Ktenidou O.-J., (2022) Landslides triggered by Medicane Ianos in Greece, September 2020; rapid satellite mapping and field survey, Applied Sciences 12, no. 23: 12443. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312443

• Karantanellis E., Marinos V., Vassilakis E., and Hölbling D., (2021) Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms for Object-Based Mapping of Landslide Zones Using UAV Data, Geosciences 11, no. 8: 305. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11080305

• Karantanellis E., V. Marinos, E. Vassilakis, and B. Christaras, (2020) Object-Based Analysis Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Site-Specific Landslide Assessment, Remote Sens. 12, 1711, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12111711

• Farmakis I., Marinos V., Papathanassiou G., Karantanellis E., (2020) Automated 3D Jointed Rock Mass Structural Analysis and Characterization Using LiDAR Terrestrial Laser Scanner for Rockfall Susceptibility Assessment: Perissa Area Case (Santorini), Geotech Geol Eng. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-020-01203-x

• Marinos V., Prountzopoulos G., Asteriou P., Papathanassiou G., Kaklis T., Pantazis G., Lambrou E., Grendas N., Karantanellis E., Pavlides S., (2017) Beyond the boundaries of feasible engineering geological solutions: Stabilizing (?) the outstanding Red Beach cliffs in Santorini Island, Greece" Environmental Earth Sciences Journal, 76:513, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-017-6823-2

• Karantanellis E. (2016) Building crack detection and characterization from VHR Imagery: From VHR Imagery to quantification of damage, book by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-3-659-82660-3

• Marinos V., Papathanassiou G., Vougiouka E., Karantanellis E. (2015) Towards the evaluation of landslide hazard in the mountainous area of Evritania, Central Greece, Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2. Springer