NEWS
Juan gets his Masters in Sciences
The CGA team would like to congratulate our GIS analyst, Juan du Plessis, on obtaining his Masters in Sciences earlier this year. Under the watchful eye of Dr Zama Eric Mashimbye, he tackled his [...]
Caley publishes on plantation forest mapping
The CGA team would like to congratulate our GIS analyst, Caley Higgs, for publishing an academic article. The article, entitled Signature Extension as a Machine Learning Strategy for Mapping Plantation Forest Genera with Sentinel-2 [...]
Did you know about our short courses?
The CGA, together with Stellenbosch University, offers short courses in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Earth Observation (EO). The courses, which are part-time, online and accredited by Stellenbosch University, provide applicants with the skills [...]
CURRENT PROJECTS
The Data CoOp
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 [...]
National water use quantification of indigenous forests
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, [...]
