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Sharing Earth Observation success storiesby Andiswa Mlisa, Umvoto Africa
 Earth Observation (EO) products and services have huge potential for business and social use. However, there is an urgent need to raise awareness among decision-makers of the EO value-add in societal benefit areas such as agriculture, biodiversity, climate, disaster, ecosystems, energy, health, water and weather... ( more) |
Project Vulindlela
by Mmuso Riba, Chief Surveyor General
 e-Cadastre is the electronic solution aimed at automating and optimising the organisational performance of the Cadastral Surveys Management and Deeds Registration branches of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform through provision of a solution that enables interoperability and Service Oriented Architecture-based integration... (more) |
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Smile! You're on candid camera!
by Esna Swart, Karto Surveys
 Aerial photography resolution has increased to 4 cm; satellite imagery to 41 cm. This has raised new privacy, safety and security concerns from the public as well as from governments across the world. Combined with new products offering geo-referenced street level views, building models and 3D terrain models, we may ask if these concerns are legitimate... ( more) |
GISSA Ukubuzana 2012 conference and exhibition
Information from EE Publishers
GISSA and EE Publishers invite you to participate, sponsor, exhibit and present at GISSA Ukubuzana 2012, the conference and exhibition of geo-informatics, ICT, surveying, remote sensing and location-based services. This event is being held on 2, 3 and 4 October 2012 at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park and is expected to be a highlight of the GIS industry calendar... (more) |
CSI study on core spatial datasets and data custodians
Information from Africascope
A study to identify SAf's core spatial data-sets and data custodians has been commissioned by the Committee for Spatial Information (CSI). The study will focus on determining the criteria and identifying the core spatial data sets and data custodians as is mandated to the CSI by the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Act... (more) |
Rhino poaching in South Africa - is it a losing battle?
by Dr. Corné Eloff, CSIR
Statistics reveal a staggering growth in rhino killings in SA since 2008. This article examines how GIS and remote sensing can be used from an environmental criminological perspective to better understand the spread of rhino poaching incidents in South Africa... ( more) |
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EO stakeholder forum provides inputs to NSP
The SA National Space Agency (SANSA) is spearheading a comprehensive consultative process to formulate a 10 to 20 year national space programme. This consultative process is led by four expert groups focusing on earth observation, space operations, space science and space engineering... (more) |
The role of documents in supporting land rightsby Jonathan Jackson, Professional Land Surveyor and Evaristo Musonda, University of KwaZulu-Natal
In the last 25 years millions of black urban residents in South Africa have been inducted into the land tenure system that earlier served whites only. This study follows this process as it has been experienced by administrators and residents in a township on the edge of the small Eastern Cape settler town of Bathurst... (more) |
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The South African Coordinate Reference System (Part 2)
by Aslam Parker, Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information
Part 1 of this article focused on the Hartebeesthoek94 Datum and the Transverse Mercator Projection. Now the focus turns to the Gauss Conform Coordinate System and the definition of the South African Coordinate Reference System (SACRS)... (more) |
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Volunteered geographical information - the challenges
by A Cooper, CSIR et al
The internet, the World Wide Web and cheap computing resources have spawned the creation of user-generated content (UGC) in general, and volunteered geographical information (VGI) in particular. A key aspect of such data, is the provenance or quality of the data, and the documenting thereof - the metadata... (more) |
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Remote sensing for vegetation classification
by Hanlie Pretorius and Dr. Julian Smit, University of Cape Town
Many analysts and researchers need to classify vegetation on remotely sensed images at structure level, at genus level or at species level. They use this information in areas such as resource planning and invasive vegetation detection. A review was compiled of some of the vegetation classifications in the past 10 years... ( more) |
Review of mobile location apps
by Matt Sheehan, WebMapSolutions
Monetising geographic information became all the rage in 2011. Mobile - smartphones and portable tablets - have broadened both the interest and potential of location for making money. This article looks at mobile location apps and discusses some opportunities for companies to build their own custom location apps... ( more) |
A step closer to mapping the Earth in 3D
Information from Astrium
After a year in service, the German Earth observation satellite TanDEM-X, together with its twin satellite, TerraSAR-X, have completely mapped the entire land surface of Earth for the first time. The data is being used to create the world's first single-source, high-precision, 3D digital elevation model of Earth... ( more) |
Biggest 3D colour map of the universe
by Paul Preuss, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab scientists and their Sloan Digital Sky Survey colleagues use galactic brightness to build a precision model of the cosmos. Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest colour map of the universe in 3D ever... ( more) |
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