Author:Van Wilgen, BWDate:May 1996The Cape Peninsula is an area of outstanding natural beauty and exceptional biodiversity, worthy of proclamation as a World Heritage Site. The area is dominated by fynbos vegetation, usually managed by means of prescribed burning, together ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, P; Stylianides, TDate:Dec 2002South Africa is subdivided into provinces and each province is further subdivided into magisterial districts, the area of jurisdiction of a district court. South African Courts have a three-tier structure namely: district, regional and high ...Read more
Author:Schmitz, P; Stylianides, TDate:Dec 2002South Africa is subdivided into provinces and each province is further subdivided into magisterial districts, the area of jurisdiction of a district court. South African Courts have a three-tier structure namely: district, regional and high ...Read morecb
Author:Schmitz, P; Cooper, Antony KDate:Dec 2000This paper describes a method that uses a desktop geographical information system (GIS) to plot cellular telephone conversations made when crimes are committed, such as hijackings, hostage taking, kidnapping, rape and murder. The maps produced ...Read more
Author:Mokgalaka, HDate:Oct 2014Spatial analytical tools and analyses are key enabling instruments which can be used to efficiently plan for public-spaces such as healthcare facilities in a metropolitan context. Improving the levels of access to public-spaces through various ...Read more
Author:Mokgalaka, HDate:Oct 2014Spatial analytical tools and analyses are key enabling instruments which can be used to efficiently plan for public-spaces such as health care facilities in a metropolitan context. Improving the levels of access to public-spaces through various ...Read more
Author:Snyman-van der Walt, LuanitaDate:Jun 2017The Department of Environmental Affairs and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries commissioned the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to conduct a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for Aquaculture Development ...Read more
Author:Molemans, M; Van Leth, F; McKelly, David H; Wood, R; Hermans, SDate:Nov 2022Background: Individuals with a history of tuberculosis (TB) disease are at higher risk of developing a subsequent episode than those without. Considering the role of social and environmental factors in tuberculosis, we assessed neighbourhood-level ...Read more
Author:Duvenhage, DF; Brent, AC; Stafford, William HL; Van Den Heever, DDate:Jun 2020Renewable Energy Technologies are rapidly gaining uptake in South Africa, already having more than 3900 MW operational wind, solar PV, Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and biogas capacity. CSP has the potential to become a leading Renewable ...Read more
Author:Fairbanks, DHKDate:Jul 2000In an effort to develop more holistic ecosystem approaches to resource assessment and management, landscapes need to be stratified into homogeneous geographic regions. These regions can then be used in a monitoring framework to develop reliable ...Read more
Author:Sililo, OTN; Conrad, JE; Dohse, TE; Tredoux, G; Du Plessis, MHDate:15 Jan 2001A procedure is presented for deriving qualitative contaminant attenuation maps from available soils information. Unfortunately, in South Africa, no soil map with national coverage exists at a scale larger than 1:2 500 000. However, 1:250 000 ...Read more
Author:Van der Walt, M; Cooper, Antony K; Netterberg, I; Rubidge, BSDate:Nov 2015A geographical information system (GIS) database was compiled of Permo-Triassic tetrapod fossils from the Karoo Supergroup in South African museum collections. This database is the first of its kind and has great time applicability for ...Read more
Author:Henrico, S; Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony KDate:Nov 2022We conducted a study to find out whether and why South African users accepted QGIS. In the quantitative part of the study, we found that QGIS acceptance is primarily influenced by habit, followed by facilitating conditions, price value, and ...Read more
Author:Henrico, S; Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony KDate:Oct 2021The benefits of free and open-source software for geographical information systems, such as QGIS, are appreciated by many all over the world. However, QGIS adoption in South Africa is not primarily influenced by the benefits attributed to ...Read more
Author:Harvey, F; Iwaniak, A; Coetzee, S; Cooper, Antony KDate:May 2012A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is an evolutionary concept related to the facilitation and coordination of the exchange and sharing of spatial data and services. Since its initial use, the SDI concept has shifted its focus from data sharing ...Read more
Author:Olivier, JJ; Greenwood, PH; Cooper, Antony K; McPherson, DR; Engelbrecht, RDate:1990Owing to the complex, inter-disciplinary nature of geographical information systems (GIS), and to the wide variety of commercial GIS software available, considerable effort is needed to select software and hardware which most nearly matches ...Read more
Author:Si, YL; Debba, Pravesh; Skidmore, AK; Toxopeus, AG; Li, LDate:Jul 2008The global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in wild birds and poultry is considered a significant pandemic threat. Furthermore, human infections resulting from direct contact with infected birds/ poultry pose a serious ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Zietsman, HLDate:Dec 1999This paper describes the Spatial Entity Classification Standard (SpECS), which has been proposed as a standard for classifying digital geographical data in South Africa, for use in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The paper begins with ...Read more