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 thesis: Machine Learning for Regional Modelling of Soil Depth in the Western Cape of South Africa. With this he set [...]
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 Imagery, was published in the Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment journal in Jaunary of 2024. Having completed her Masters [...]
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 to make their own maps, to acquire, capture, edit and manipulate spatial data and to run a variety of GIS [...]
On Friday the 24th of February, the Data CoOp team met with stakeholders to present a Data CoOp project status update and discuss the project’s future. The CGA is currently involved in developing the Data CoOp project involving a centralised geodatabase system for the pome and stone fruit industry. Project co-ordinator, Rebecca Light, present [...]
The CGA team is always at the ready to share our knowledge. And it was specifically fulfilling to teach our Introduction to Earth Observation short course in October and November 2022 as part of the NEOFrontiers project titled Development of New Hyperspectral Capabilities across Aquatic, Atmospheric and Terrestrial Domains (HyperCAAT) in partnership with the CSIR, [...]
The CGA is proud to congratulate our very own director, Adriaan van Niekerk, for his inaugural lecture, titled "Data Science: Opportunity or threat", that took place at the University of Stellenbosch last week. Adriaan's focus is on the development and application of geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (Earth observation) techniques to support decisions [...]
A while back the CGA assisted the Research on Socioeconomic Policy (RESEP) team in developing an interactive map called the RESEP School Viewer. This web-based tool toggles the data of learner flows at different grades and levels of the system – national, provincial, education districts and wards. It is available for public access and users are able [...]
Did you know that you can learn to make this map? Our Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) short course teaches you all the basics you need to get hold of spatial data, work with it, and transform it into the beautiful work of art a map can be. The only qualification you need [...]
The CGA would like to extend a warm welcome to Caley, James and Juan who joined us as permanent members of staff at the beginning of May. Caley has been a familiar face around the office since 2018. She has worked on projects like SUDEM/DEMSA2 and TerraClim. Her time is often spent on writing [...]
Have you heard of the National Coastal Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment? South Africa has approximately 3000km of coast. Due to climate change, we are expecting sea levels to rise and more storms to hit, creating winds that result in severe flooding and erosion. Together with the CSIR, Stellenbosch University and Nelson Mandela University, we [...]