For MSc students
eClass: course enrolment and announcements
Enrolment by course coordinators. Course coordinators enrol students in each course’s eClass space after MSc enrolment closes and before classes begin. Enrolment in the MSc through the Secretariat and access to course spaces are separate steps.
Course announcements. Announcements for each course are published in that course’s eClass space. Check its “Announcements” section regularly.
Access requires your DUTH institutional account and enrolment in the course space. If you cannot access a course when classes begin, contact its coordinator in writing.
The MSc website remains the source for general programme announcements and administrative information.
Programme structure
The programme totals 75 ECTS: 30 in Semester 1, 30 in Semester 2 and 15 during the intensive summer period. All eight courses and the traineeship are compulsory. The published 2026 curriculum requires successful completion of these components; it does not list a separate master’s dissertation.
Semester 1 — 30 ECTS
| Course | Type | ECTS |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals of forest, forest land and protected areas inventory & monitoringeClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
| Remote sensing & GIS for natural environment monitoringeClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
| Forest structureeClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
| Sampling in inventory & monitoringeClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
Semester 2 — 30 ECTS
| Course | Type | ECTS |
|---|---|---|
| Geospatial technologies in forest inventoryeClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
| Monitoring carbon stockseClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
| Protected areas monitoring - Vegetation management for biodiversityeClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
| Statistical data analysis - DatabaseseClass | Compulsory | 7.5 |
Intensive summer period — 15 ECTS
| Activity | Workload | ECTS |
|---|---|---|
| Compulsory traineeship | 375 hours | 15 |
Contact hours and credits
Each course has at least 39 teaching hours. The published timetable structure allocates 35 hours to synchronous distance teaching and four hours to in-person teaching, with no asynchronous hours allocated in the course table. Each course carries 7.5 ECTS; contact hours and ECTS measure different aspects of study.
Across eight courses, the taught component comprises 312 hours: 280 online and 32 in person. The 375-hour traineeship is an additional component. Its 15 ECTS correspond to 25 hours of workload per credit, as specified in Article 11 of the Regulation.
Semester 1 — course outlines
Each course below is compulsory, carries 7.5 ECTS and has 35 synchronous online teaching hours plus four in-person hours. The course titles follow the English titles in the 2026 Regulation; the outlines translate its published syllabus.
Fundamentals of forest, forest land and protected areas inventory & monitoring
Definitions used in national legislation, ELSTAT and LULUCF; land-cover categories and forest types; European forest inventories; soil-resource inventory; permanent forest-plot monitoring protocols; monitoring growth, health and functions of forest ecosystems; categories of protected areas and the Natura 2000 network.
Remote sensing & GIS for natural environment monitoring
Basic principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing; primary and secondary geospatial data sources; vector and raster data; electromagnetic radiation and major remote-sensing systems; geodatabases, reference systems and map projections; importing data and running spatial queries; finding and downloading remote-sensing data and products; mapping and monitoring natural ecosystems and protected areas.
Forest structure
Horizontal and vertical forest structure, canopy closure and age classes; structural diversity and biodiversity indicators; silvicultural and management systems; forest dynamics; the effects of disturbances on forest structure; regeneration.
Sampling in inventory & monitoring
Sampling units (individual trees and sample plots), sample size and plot area; simple random and stratified sampling; sampling and modelling for forest-biomass inventory; unequal-probability sampling, including list sampling, probability proportional to prediction (PPP) and probability proportional to size (PPS); multiphase, multistage and cluster sampling.
Semester 2 — course outlines
Each course below is compulsory, carries 7.5 ECTS and has 35 synchronous online teaching hours plus four in-person hours. The course titles follow the English titles in the 2026 Regulation; the outlines translate its published syllabus.
Geospatial technologies in forest inventory
Satellite and unmanned-aircraft data for forest inventory; vegetation spectral behaviour; processing and transforming multispectral data; detecting changes in forest ecosystems; forest photo-interpretation; digital-image classification; supervised classification for vegetation mapping; forest-map accuracy assessment; thematic map production in GIS; online forest-monitoring tools and services.
Monitoring carbon stocks
Forests in the carbon cycle; Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF); estimating above- and below-ground biomass and carbon; carbon flux through fine-root production; standing and fallen deadwood volume and decay; forest-floor biomass and carbon; litterfall carbon flux; soil organic carbon; forest CO2 removals; risks of carbon-stock loss and measures to conserve stocks.
Protected areas monitoring - Vegetation management for biodiversity
Terrestrial protected areas in Greece, protection zones, extent and characteristics; forest and stand management in relation to biodiversity; vegetation management and interventions in protected areas; protected-area monitoring; biodiversity assessment and the graded biodiversity index for Greek forests.
Course eClass Listed in eClass as «Παρακολούθηση προστατευόμενων περιοχών».
Statistical data analysis - Databases
National Forest Inventory databases; big data; meta-analysis; survival analysis; models for estimating tree- and stand-level biometric variables and their increments.
Assessment and completion
All courses and the traineeship must be passed. Assessment methods are announced by each course coordinator; the pass mark is 5 on the 0–10 scale. See the Study Guide: attendance and assessment and traineeship requirements.
Source: Article 10 of the 2026 Internal Regulation (Greek PDF).