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Implications of the Legal Metrology Bill for the geomatics sector
by Peter Newmarch, Kirchhoff Surveyors
 The Legal Metrology Bill isintended to protect consumers against short measure. It will apply to any measurement, prescribed or not. (Don't be confused by the "prescribed purpose" of the bill, this only applies to the measuring instrument.) The Act would require any person who provides a measuring service or product to register with the DTI under this Act... ( more)
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Planning law reform and recent developments in the Western Capeby Spencer Dreyer, SAGI
 The declaration of unconstitutionality and invalidity of parts of the Development Facilitation Act No 67/1995 together with various other landmark court judgments providing clarity on the roles and responsibilities of various levels of government regarding planning matters, has accelerated the law reform process both at national and provincial levels of government... (more) |
Reservation of work for plannersby Clare van Zwieten, editor
 Land surveyors are outraged by the Dept. of Rural Development & Land Reform's Draft Regulations for The Planning Profession Act. Their alarm regarding the proposed Act centres specifically on Section 4: Reservation of work exclusively for professional and technical planners, which is seen as a serious threat to the relevance and future of the land surveying profession... (more)
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Book review: Disputed landReview by Lindsay Braun, University of Oregon
 The English version of Louis Changuion and Bertus Steenkamp's 2011 "Omstrede Land" recounts the evolution of spatial segregation and considerations of land reform. The Afrikaans original was most visible as a prop in fights over the 2011 Green Paper on Land Reform, but if we take a more sober look, the assets and liabilities of the work become clearer... (more)
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Letters to the editor
This month's winning letter focuses on South Africa's trig beacon network and how this national assest is being eroded due to lack of maintenance and vandalism... (more) |
First fully tradable title deeds for black home owners
Information from Freemarket Foundation
On 22 October 2013, 100 years since the 1913 Native Land Act was passed, Free State Premier, Ace Magashule, released the first fully tradable title deeds to black home owners in the Ngwathe municipality in the Free State... ( more) |
GOCE mission comes to an endInformation from European Space Agency
After nearly tripling its planned lifetime, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer - GOCE - has completed its mission and disintegrated on its reentry to Earth's atmosphere. Dubbed the "Ferrari of space", the European Space Agency's GOCE has mapped variations in Earth's gravity with extreme detail... (more) |
Measuring deformation from space
by Davide Colombo, Tele-Rilevamento Europa TRE
InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) uses satellite radar imagery to precisely measure ground deformation. TRE developed advanced techniques, PSInSAR and then SqueeSAR, as standard tools to monitor natural hazards, geothermal, oil and gas, mining, urban and infrastructures monitoring... (more) |
Target audiences, media and messages for SDI training
by Victoria Rautenbach and Serena Coetzee, UP; Julian Smit, UCT; Heindrich du Plessis, DRDLR; and Ivan Farayi Muzondo, TUT
This article aims to report on research conducted to identify the different target audiences and corresponding SDI education and training media and messages that will contribute towards the development of the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure (SASDI)... (more) |
Geomatics in mining: The need for consolidated geodatabases
by Alistair Main, GCS Water and Environmental Consultants
This article will illustrate the value that geomatics, geographical information systems (GIS), surveyors and related geospatial professionals can add to the South African mining industry by identifying and populating gaps in available information... (more) |
Unleashing the power of imageryby Stuart Martin, GeoTerraImage
In the fields of satellite imagery and aerial photography, the geospatial community has a myriad of choice with respect to sensors, resolutions, revisit times and capabilities in terms of imagery. Within the community, the ability to extract information and knowledge from these images seems to be lagging... (more) |
Drought monitoring
Information from the ARC-ISCW
Drought conditions over the NW Province have revitalised interest in drought monitoring over SA. The Agricultural Research Council - Institute for Soil, Climate and Water (ARC-ISCW) monitors climate and vegetation responses operationally and provides near-real time products for the delineation of adversely affected areas... (more) |
GNSS applications for agricultural practices
by Guy Blanchard Ikokou, University of Cape Town
Global positioning systems are relatively new technologies when it comes to applications in agriculture. Applications in tractor guidance, variable rate supply of chemical inputs and field monitoring of crop yield were recently tested using GPS... (more) |
Vehicle tracking trial results for SBAS in South AfricaInformation from SANSA
The SATSA (SBAS Awareness and Training for South Africa) project was established to facilitate SBAS (satellite based augmentation system) deployment in South Africa by increasing technological navigation capacity in the region... (more) |
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