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Professionalism and ethics in GISc
by Stuart Martin, GeoTerraImage
 Fundamental requirements of being a PLATO registered professional in South Africa include: requiring extensive education and training; applying these skills to the wellbeing of society; providing a service, usually with a level of job reservation; having an unusual degree of autonomy; and claiming to be regulated by ethical standards... ( more)
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Significant progress in the battle against AMDInformation from the Water Stewardship Council of Southern Africa
 While the war against the unintended consequences of a century of largely self-regulated mining has not been won, the Water Stewardship Council of Southern Africa (WSCSA) believes that it is in fact winning local battles on numerous fronts, so there is reason for cautious optimism in the battle against acid mine drainage (AMD)... (more) |
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Join the open public debate on Acid Mine Drainage solutions and funding models
The problem is Acid Mine Drainage. But what are the solutions? Who makes the profits, who pays the price, and who picks up the costs? The mining industry? The taxpayer? Join the public debate on 29 August 2013... (more) |
PositionIT InBox - Response to "Practicing the full monty"This month's winning letter
This month's winning letter describes Karl van Rensburg's article on the status of the surveying profession, published in the April/May 2013 issue of PositionIT, as alarmist... (more)
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Efficient real-time stability monitoring of mine walls
by P Farina and N Coli, IDS Ingegneria dei Sistemi, and R Y�n, G Eken and H Ketizmen, Ciner Group
Slope monitoring radar has emerged in the last ten years as a leading edge tool for monitoring movements in open pit mines, thanks to the ability to rapidly measure wall movements with millimetric accuracy over wide areas in any weather conditions... ( more) |
Detecting and monitoring of geological hazards with geophysics
by Michael van Schoor, CSIR Centre for Mining Innovation
Today, exploration geophysics plays a prominent role in the fields of civil and geological engineering and, in particular, surveying for geological hazards such as subsidence, subsurface cavities and sinkholes... (more) |
Mapping through the ages: the history of cartography
by Caitlin Dempsey, GIS Lounge
The fascination and interest for the world that we inhabit has been inherent to human nature since prehistoric times. Some of the cave paintings have turned out to be, according to the latest research, maps of hunting areas, streams, routes, and even maps of the stars... (more) |
Business benefits from lidar using GIS software
by Mark Norris-Rogers, Mondi and Ron Behrendt, Behron
Mondi recently acquired its first lidar data set over a portion of its plantation forest area in South Africa. Due in part to the cost of the lidar acquisition, maximum value needed to be extracted to justify the expense and quickly demonstrate to management the value of this form of remote sensing... ( more) |
GIS undergraduate programmes at a university of technologyby Ivan Farayi Muzondo, Tshwane University of Technology
Universities of Technologies are introducing programs in geographical information science and technology to set themselves apart as unique and essential higher education institutions... (more) |
Spectral classification using lidar and hyperspectral data - Part 1Iby Laven Naidoo, Moses Cho, Renaud Mathieu, CSIR; Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science; and Frank Eckardt, University of Cape Town
To overcome the inherent inter-species and high intra-species spectral variability, typical of savanna environments, a new novel decision tree multiple end member Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) classification approach was introduced... (more) |
Geospatial tools enable discovery of Bronze Age art at Stonehenge
Information from Bentley
The same software used to help design, build, and operate 21st Century infrastructure plays a key role in sustaining one of the world's oldest built environments... (more) |
Revealing the "where" of business intelligence using location analyticsInformation from Esri
Increasingly, data is viewed as the lifeblood of organisations. Across industries, information is sliced, diced and analysed for trends, anomalies and insights that lead to better outcomes and strategies... (more) |
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