Author:SANCORDate:1985The Marine Pollution Research Programme is one of the series of SANCOR Programmes. Up to 1985 research into these aspects of oil pollution covered by the Prevention and combating of Pollution of the Sea by Oil Act (no. 6 of 1981) has been ...Read more
Author:Rust, ICDate:Mar 1984The Marine Sedimentology Programme is the latest phase of a research activity which was initiated in 1966 by the late Professor E S W Simpson. Related research is currently carried out by NRIO, UCT and the Geological Survey. The main objectives ...Read more
Author:SANCORDate:Feb 1983This publication outlines the Programme for Coastal Processes as it will exist within SANCOR for the next six years. The programme was drawn up by active researchers in the field and by executives responsible for management in the coastal ...Read more
Author:SANCORDate:Feb 1984The South African National Committee for Oceanographic Research (SANCOR) coordinates and administers a significant portion of the marine research conducted in South Africa under six discrete programmes. These are; Benguela Ecology, Coastal ...Read more
Author:SANCORDate:Feb 1986The South African National Committee for Oceanographic Research coordinates and administers a significant portion of the marine research conducted in South Africa under seven sub-programmes. These are; Benguela Ecology, Coastal Processes, ...Read more
Author:SANCORDate:1988The South African National Committee for Oceanographic Research coordinates and administers a significant portion of the marine research conducted in South Africa under seven sub-programmes. These are: Benguela Ecology, Coastal Processes, ...Read more
Author:Estuarine and Coastal Research UnitDate:Dec 1982This report is one of a series on Cape Estuaries being published under the general title "The Estuaries of the Cape, Part 2". The report provides information on sand estuary: historical background, abiotic and biotic characteristics. It is ...Read more
Author:Aghaei, VT; SeyyedAbbasi, AS; Rasheed, J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2023The control of the open loop unstable systems with nonlinear structure is challenging work. In this paper, for the first time, we present a sand cat swarm optimization (SCSO) algorithm-based state feedback controller design for open-loop ...Read more
Author:Duncker, Louiza CDate:Jan 2019Sanitation is affected by climate change and has an impact on climate change. Climate change will increase the frequency of climate shocks, which will have an impact on water supply, energy, and food. Community-based adaptation is essential ...Read more
Author:Matsebe, GDate:Nov 2006South Africa is one of the countries facing the challenge of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for sanitation. At least five percent of the South African population consists of people with disabilities (PWDs) and the question ...Read more
Author:Duncker, Louiza CDate:Jul 2013Limited understanding of the characteristics of different sanitation technology options may affect acceptance of certain technologies in certain circumstances, as well as lead to little appreciation by the users of the long-term financial, ...Read more
Author:Duncker, Louiza CDate:May 2014Research showed that many households that were provided with basic water and sanitation services have joined the backlog again due to the infrastructure not being used for the purpose it was intended to. Research also showed that in most cases ...Read more
Author:Dye, P; Naiken, Vivek; Clulow, A; Prinsloo, Eric; Crichton, M; Weiersbye, IDate:Mar 2017The Witwatersrand Basin Goldfields (WBG) have seen over a century of continuous mining that has generated extensive tailings storage facilities (TSF), together with “footprints” remaining after the residue has been removed for reprocessing ...Read more
Author:Steenkamp, Karen C; Wessels, Konrad J; Archibald, S; Von Maltitz, Graham PDate:May 2009Remotely-sensed phenological metrics (or phenometrics) were derived from AVHRR vegetation-index time-series data and to describes seasonal growth in terms of start, end, length of season and estimates of net primary production (NPP). This ...Read more
Author:Vhengani, L; Lubbe, M; Griffith, D; Lysko, MDate:Oct 2010The success or failure of any earth observation mission depends on the quality of its data. Data quality is assessed by determining the radiometric, spatial, spectral and geometric fidelity of the satellite sensor. The process is termed calval. ...Read more
Author:Krug, Marjolaine J; Tournadre, JDate:Aug 2012Ocean models show an annual cycle in the Agulhas Current transport which has not yet been confirmed in analyses of in-situ or satellite observations. A cross-stream coordinate approach is used to study the variability of the Agulhas Current ...Read more
Author:Smith, Marie E; Bernard, StewartDate:Feb 2020The aquaculture industry of southern Africa faces environmental threats from harmful algal blooms (HABs), which have the potential to cause devastating economic losses (Pitcher et al., 2019). Satellite earth observation offers a systematic ...Read more
Author:Engelbrecht, Jeanine; Inggs, MRDate:Aug 2016Surface deformations associated with shallow underground mining activities have significant implications for both the natural- and built environment. Environmental problems include the exacerbation of acid mine drainage and the alteration of ...Read more
Author:Hirst, SMDate:Dec 1975The period under review was devoted essentially to a pilot study of the Burked ecosystem, which aimed at an initial, albeit crude, quantitative appraisal of the total system to define the overall structure and the most important energy and ...Read more