Dr. Divya Sekhar Vaka is the Head of Innovation & Technology at GEOFEM, with many years of experience in InSAR for infrastructure and environmental monitoring. He holds a PhD in SAR Interferometry from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an MTech in Remote Sensing from Andhra University, India. His expertise lies in using InSAR to monitor and analyze urban subsidence, slope stability (including landslides, mines, and tailing dams), subsidence due to oil and natural gas extraction, groundwater exploitation, and earthquake deformations, with a specific focus on land and geohazards. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE-GRSS, ISPRS, and ISRS. He has participated in, published, and reviewed technical papers for reputed conferences and journals. Dr. Vaka has been a team member on several projects funded by the European Space Agency and other European funding bodies, and he has successfully completed numerous commercial projects. His interests and skills encompass many areas, including machine learning, deep learning, geophysical modelling, GPS-GNSS, SAR-optical data fusion, change detection, sea level rise, and geospatial analysis.
Dr. Emmanouil Oikonomou received a BEng Honours in Rural and Surveying Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1990 and a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Southampton in 1998. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica. His research areas include remote sensing, coastal surveying, hydrography, physical oceanography, and surveying applications in climate change and energy studies.
