Qualifying articles are limited to those by authors in South Africa, and exclude company white papers or information supplied under a company name.

The EE Publishers editorial committee has chosen what it considers to be the top ten qualifying articles of 2014 (below), and requests your participation in choosing the best article from these finalists.

The 20th person that selects a potential winner from the papers below will win R1000 sponsored by EE Publishers.

The  author of the winning paper will receive a Canon i-SENSYS MF 8280Cw series device valued at about R3699, kindly sponsored by Canon.

The finalists chosen by the EE Publishers editorial committee, in order of publication date, are:

The versatility and speed of mobile lidar scanning as well as its ability to survey large and difficult areas has seen the technology being used extensively on mines for stockpile volume reporting. This article compares mobile laser scanning with conventional methods... (more) (vote)

TNS South Africa, one of the world's largest insight, information and consultancy groups, was recently approached by a prominent South African business to investigate the purchase specific incidence of their product versus that of their competitor... (more) (vote)

Sometimes radical out-of-the-box thinking is called for when faced with seemingly insurmountable problems. Reconstructing accurate address maps for Soweto - many years after they had been destroyed - was one such challenge... (more) (vote)
 

This article outlines how artificial sky glow, also known as light pollution, is modeled using Census 2001 and Census 2011 population data... (more) (vote)

by Jaun-Onic Maritz, HP

Production and reproduction of visual content is a critical part of the project flow for any geospatial professional or team. Although this is conceptually nothing new, the demands on those working in these fields keep increasing. This brings a continually changing... (more) (vote)

GIS-based identification of suitable sites for tilapia fish farming in Gauteng

by Celéste Dekker, ARC-ISCW

In October 2010, the Agricultural Research Council - Institute for Soil, Climate and Water (ARC-ISCW) was contracted to research the use of a geographical information system (GIS) for the identification of suitable sites for warm water fish aquaculture... (more) (vote)

When searching for a cost-effective, accurate aerial survey solution that needs to be available on demand, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the ideal platform. This article explains how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) work as a survey tool... (more) (vote)

The St. Helena International Airport construction projects represents a historic milestone for one of the most remote islands in the world. Over R3-billion has been allocated for the project which encompasses a 1850 m concrete runway with taxiway and apron... (more) (vote)

This article looks at the relationship of different geospatial scales and their relevance in the geospatial world... (more) (vote)

Exxaro'sGrootegeluk Mine recently acquired a Trimble MX2 mobile mapping system from Optron, and had a 4 x 4 light delivery vehicle (LDV) customised to facilitate the surveying of its open pit operations and stockpiles. The aim was to create a semi-automated... (more) (vote)