Biography Caley started studying a BSc in Geo-Informatics in 2016. Since then she has obtained her undergraduate and honours degree in Geo-Informatics and she is currently completing her MSc. Her MSc thesis involved using remote sensing and machine learning to map commercial forest plantation genera. Caley has been doing part-time GIS [...]
The CGA would like to say farewell to GIS & Earth Observation Operator, Lauren McCarthy, who is leaving to take up an au pairing position in the Netherlands. It has been a great pleasure working with Lauren and we would like to thank her for her commitment and dedication to the CGA. She has [...]
These last few weeks have been really cold, and this week is no different. Based on TerraClim’s climate database, there is a marked difference between this year’s weather compared to last year. But you may be surprised to learn that this year’s temperatures are not colder than the long-term (100+ years) average. For instance, [...]
Watch the webinar hosted by METOS SA to learn more about climate smart agriculture (CSA) and how you can get involved. In addition to the TerraClim project, also being discussed discuss is: Mitigate the impact of climate change Use pesticides more efficiently Maximize crop yields TerraClim | GeoSmart Space | FFG Austrian Research [...]
The CGA is saying farewell to two members of staff this month: GIS & EO Analyst, Divan Vermeulen, who has been with the CGA for more than 10 years, and to GIS & EO Operator, Christiaan Theron, who has worked with us since 2017. Divan is leaving to take up a position as a Developer and GIS Specialist at Kartoza. It has been a great pleasure working with Divan [...]
The CGA would like to extend a warm welcome to Mr James Kapp, who joined us as a GIS & EO Operator at the beginning of May. We are looking forward to working with James who, among other things, will be involved in the database management and spatial interpolation research and development for the [...]
Biography James completed his BSc Geo-informatics degree in 2018, followed by a Geo-informatics Honours degree in 2019. His honours project involved the use of time-series Sentinel-1 imagery to automatically detect settlement expansion in the Cape Town area. Thereafter, James worked as a Java software developer at Peralex Electronics in Bergvliet. He [...]
The CGA would like to say farewell to GIS & Earth Observation Analyst Atman Prins, who is leaving to take up a position in Dublin, Ireland. It has been a great pleasure working with Atman and the CGA would like to thank him for his time and dedication during the time he spent at [...]
Drone imagery is often used to calculate vegetation indices such as the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to characterize the condition of individual trees in orchards. Individual trees are often defined as a centroid (centre of the tree), or a circle (buffer around the centroid) or a rectangular area (plot). The NDVI values are then extracted for these entities [...]