The Data CoOp project is the brainchild of Dr Gulu Bekker of the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology at Stellenbosch University that, in partnership with the CGA, aspires to revolutionise decision making within the deciduous fruit industry. The project aims to create a centralized industry geographic database system for pome and [...]

South Africa (SA) is classified as a water-scarce country, with an estimated 21% of SA considered arid and 44% regarded as semi-arid. The competition for water resources among land uses is high, with the chief competitors being urban settlements, agriculture, and forestry. In an ongoing WRC project (K5/2966//4), Earth observation (EO) methods [...]

Winetech has appointed the Centre for Geographical Analysis (CGA) to develop a prototype online spatial decision support system (SDSS) for the wine industry. The project is being carried out in close collaboration with the Department of Viticulture and Oenology at Stellenbosch University. The aim of the project is to develop and integrate a [...]