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Fire hazard notifications via Satellite, Twitter, Citizen Reports, and Android Apps

Author: Butgereit, L ; Moonsamy, S ; Thomson, T ; Van Zyl, T ; McFerren, G Date: Nov 2014 Humanity has had a long historical relationship with fire. According to anthropologists, the first humanoid species learned to use and control fire approximately two million years ago. Using fire and controlling fire, however, are dramatically ... Read more
FOSS geospatial libraries in scientific workflow environments: experiences and directions

Author: McFerren, G ; Van Zyl, T ; Vahed, Anwar Date: Jul 2011 In multiple research fields such as astronomy, bio-informatics, chem-informatics, geophysics and eco-informatics, scientists are increasingly turning to e-science and specifically scientific workflows as a way of improving, broadening, hastening ... Read more
Harnessing cyber-infrastructure for local scale climate change research in Africa

Author: Vahed, Anwar ; Engelbrecht, F ; Simonis, I ; Naidoo, M ; Sibolla, B ; Van Zyl, T ; McFerren, G Date: May 2012 Climate change poses a major threat to environmental sustainability. Africa in particular, is vulnerable with projected worsening food security, increased threats to public health, increased stress on surface water resources and a general ... Read more
Southern African advanced fire information system

Author: McFerren, G ; Frost, P Date: May 2009 This paper concerns the development of the South African Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS). Researchers describe a use case of wildfires causing electricity transmission lines to be adversely affected. This use case provided the rationale ... Read more
Towards a wide area alerting and notification system

Author: McFerren, G ; Swanepoel, D Date: 2012 This paper describes the concept of a Wide Area Alerting System (WAAS), a flexible ICT platform for building alerting and notification applications. It is tailored to the generation and dissemination of complex alerts or notifications derived ... Read more

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