Stathis G. Arapostathis

Stathis G. Arapostathis was born in Athens, Greece, on September 1st, 1984. Had he completed his school studies he moved to Mytilene, Lesvos island, where he studied Geography at the University of the Aegean. His MSc and PhD studies were held in Athens, at the department of Geography of Harokopio University, in the field of Geo-Informatics.
His research interests focus on utilizing Social Networks for Science and on Volunteered Geographic Information. Other research interests include Geoinformatics in general, GIS, development of Map Applications and applied modern technologies in Geography.

Scientific Publications

• Arapostathis, S. G. (2021). Utilising Twitter for disaster management of fire events: steps towards efficient automation. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 14(8), 1-16.


• Arapostathis, S. G. (2021). A Methodology for Automatic Acquisition of Flood‐event Management Information From Social Media: the Flood in Messinia, South Greece, 2016. Information Systems Frontiers, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s10796-021-10105-z


• Arapostathis, S. G. (2020). Fundamentals of Volunteered Geographic Information in Disaster Management Related to Floods. In Flood Impact Mitigation and Resilience Enhancement. IntechOpen. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.92225


• Arapostathis (2019) International Summer School of Russian Geographical Society, St. Petroupolis, Russia, August 2018. Journal Geographies, 33:118-121, ISSN:1109-186X, Summer 2019


• Stathis G. Arapostathis. (2019). Instagrammers report about the deadly wildfires of East Attica, 2018, Greece: An introductory analytic assessment for disaster management purposes. In Z. Franco, J. J. González, & J. H. Canós (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (pp. 473–481). Valencia, Spain: Iscram.


• Arapostathis S.G., Karantzia M. (2019) Mapping information of Fire Events, from VGI source (twitter), for effective Disaster Management (in Greece); The Fire of North-East Attica, August 2017, (Greece) Case Study Short paper in Advances in Remote Sensing and Informatics Applications, 257-260


• Arapostathis (2018) The social media network twitter as a source of volunteered geographic information for extracting mapping information and developing seismic intensity maps. Publication of PhD dissertation, Journal Geographies 32:114-118, ISSN: 1109-186X, Winter 2018


• Arapostathis, S. G. (2018, September). Tweeting About Floods of Messinia (Greece, September 2016)-Towards a Credible Methodology for Disaster Management Purposes. In International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (pp. 142-154). Springer, Cham.


• Arapostathis, S. G., Spyrou, N., Drakatos, G., Kalabokidis, K., Lekkas, E., & Xanthopoulos, G. (2018). Mapping information related to floods, extracted from VGI sources, for effective disaster management within the Greek territory; the floods of West Attica (November 2017 Greece) case study. In 11th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society.


• Arapostathis, S. G., Lekkas, E., Kalabokidis, K., Drakatos, G., Xanthopoulos, G., Spyroy, N., & Kalogeras, I. (2018, March). Developing seismic intensity maps from twitter data; the case study of Lesvos Greece 2017 earthquake: Assessments, improvements and enrichments on the methodology. In Proceedings of the GI4DM 2018 Congress, Istanbul.


• Arapostathis S, Parcharidis I, Stefanakis E, Drakatos G, Kalogeras I (2016) A method for creating seismic intensity maps from twitter data. Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, David Publishing, DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2016.07.013


• Arapostathis S, Parcharidis I, Kalogeras I, Drakatos G (2015) Mapping seismic intensity using twitter data: A case study: The February 26th, 2014 ML=5.9 Kefallinia (Greece) earthquake. Abstract in Proceedings of the EGU International Congress 17-22 of April, Vienna, Austria, 2015


• Arapostathis S. Kalogirou S. (2013), Twitter data as a source of volunteered geographic information; review paper of recent research analysis and applications, 1st Spatial Analysis Conference: Proceedings, Athens, 17-18 May, 2013, ISBN: 978-960-861818-6-6


• Arapostathis E, Gkadolou E, Stefanakis E, Kritikos G (2011) Studying the history of the battleship of Georgios Averof: A projection in space and time. Poster presentation in Joint ICA Symposium, University of Orleans, 30 of June- 1 of July 2011


• Arapostathis E. (2010) A web-tool for visualizing geographic data for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (available in Greek only) . In Proceedings of the 6th Pan-Hellenic Congress Hellas GIs, 2nd of December 2010, Athens


• Arapostathis S. (2010) Models for analyzing the touristic distribution of the Greek Museums. (available in Greek only) In Proceedings of the 9th Pan-Hellenic Geographical Congress, 4-6 of November 2010, Athens

Language Skills

• English: Proficiency, University of Michigan


• Spanish: Basico (B2), Instituto Cervantes

Professional Experience

• Self Employed (2018 - today)


• HERE (Former Nokia/Former Navteq, 2010 - 2016): Geographic Analyst I/II


• Geoapikonisis AEMGE (2009 - 2010): GAEK Project: Identification and Digitization of environmental elements


• Geoapikonisis AEMGE (2008): Office employee at Cadastral Office of Acharnai

General Software Skills

• Office / Libre Office
• Ubuntu
• Wordpress
• Apache

Programming Skills

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• R
• C++

Geography related software skills

• ArcGIS Pro
• MapServer
• Quantum GIS