Introduction to Electro-Optical Systems

Rear Admiral (ret.) Georgios Sagos was born in Chalkida, Evia, on October 5, 1963. He was the first to enter the Naval Cadet School (SND) in 1981, from which he graduated with honors, as a Naval Combat Officer, in 1985. In 1992 obtained the qualifications Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Engineering Acoustics, from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) of the USA, with specializations in Digital Signal Processing and Underwater Acoustics. During his career in the Navy (1981-2015) he served on various types of warships. A young officer participated in the Greek-Turkish crisis of March 1987, as a crew of Frigate HELLI. Also, he served as governor in Frigate HELLI at the time of the Imian crisis (1996). He assumed the duties of governor in Gunboat ORMI carrying out patrols in the NW Ionian (Albania crisis 1997) and subsequently in the SE Aegean. He also took over as governor at KOUTOURIOTIS frigate after her modernization at the Scaramanga shipyards, with which she participated in the NATO Mediterranean force SNMG/2 and in the NATO operation "Operation Active Endeavour" in the period 2007-2008. He has also served as:

• Director of Operations at the Destroyer-Frigate Command
• Head of Department and Director of the General Directorate of Weapon Systems
• Deputy director of naval training in the CIS
• Head of the Department of New Ideas and Experimentation at the Evolution Center of GEETHA
• Director of the office of innovative ideas of the GEN
• Commander of the Naval Automated Combat Systems Center
• Coordinator of inspections and operational evaluations conducted by the Naval Inspectorate General.

Finally, he has served in the Greek Military Delegation North Atlantic Treaty Organization – HEMILREP (Hellenic Military Representation) at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, where he was a national representative in the Alliance's working groups on defense policy issues (2003-2006). He is the author of several books on defense applications of modern technology (radar, electronic warfare systems, electro-optics, sonar), as well as applications in acoustics. He is married to lawyer Denise Claudianou, with whom he has two sons and a daughter.