<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Tribe,</div>please welcome Angelos Tzotsos which become a new ZOO-Project developer. He previously worked on making OpenSuSE packaging for ZOO-Kernel and publish documentation about it. I think he can of great help for testing ZOO-Kernel and probably publishing patches. <div><br></div><div>You'll here a short bio of Angelos to know a bit more about him.</div><div><br></div><div>He was born in Ioannina, Greece in 1980. He <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif">received his diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2005. Since then he is a PhD Candidate in Remote Sensing Laboratory, NTUA, where he is also working as a researcher and teaching assistant in undergraduate and postgraduate classes. His PhD title is "<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="el-GR">Investigation of image segmentation, machine learning and expert systems </span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="en-US">techniques</span></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="el-GR"> in remote sensing</span></font></font>". He has been involved in 5 research projects and he has been author of 20 scientific papers. His main area of expertise is remote sensing, object-based image analysis, machine learning, expert systems, computer vision, artificial intelligence and software engineering. He has more than 5 years of experience as a software engineer with applications involving remote sensing, GIS, computer vision, digital image processing, knowledge-based expert systems, geospatial applications, databases, web applications, OGC web services, INSPIRE and geospatial metadata. He is a member of numerous Free and Open Source communities including FSF, OSGeo, openSUSE and FOSS-NTUA. He is the founder and maintainer of 2 free software projects and a contributor for 3 other large scale projects. He has 6 years of experience as a consultant and sub-contractor for private companies in the fields of remote sensing and software engineering.</font></span></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Welcome in the team Angelos !</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Best regards,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font><div>
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