Author:Masemola, Cecilia R; Cho, Moses A; Ramoelo, AbelDate:Aug 2019The tree Acacia mearnsii is native to south-eastern Australia but has become an aggressive invader in many countries. In South Africa, it is a significant threat to the conservation of biomes. Detecting and mapping its early invasion is ...Read more
Author:Mokgonyane, TB; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Modipa, Thipe I; Mogale, MM; Manamela, MJ; Manamela, PJDate:Jan 2019Speaker recognition is a technique used to automatically recognize a speaker from a recording of their voice or speech utterance. Speaker recognition technology has improved over recent years and has become inexpensive and and reliable method ...Read more
Author:Naidoo, Laven; Cho, Moses A; Mathieu, Renaud SA; Asner, GDate:Apr 2012The accurate classification and mapping of individual trees at species level in the savanna ecosystem can provide numerous benefits for the managerial authorities. Such benefits include the mapping of economically useful tree species, which ...Read more
Author:Dudeni-Tlhone, Nontembeko; Mutanga, O; Debba, Pravesh; Cho, Moses ADate:Aug 2023Hyperspectral sensors capture and compute spectral reflectance of objects over many wavelength bands, resulting in a high-dimensional space with enough information to differentiate between spectrally similar objects. Due to the curse of ...Read more
Author:Bessinger, M; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Skowno, A; Conrad, FDate:Nov 2022Coastlines worldwide are home to an increasing number of people and are subject to many pressures. This, combined with natural dynamics and hazards, often results in the degradation of coastal and marine ecosystems and infrastructure. Therefore, ...Read more
Author:Ramoelo, Abel; Cho, Moses A; Mathieu, Renaud SA; Skidmore, AKDate:Aug 2015Sentinel-2 is intended to improve vegetation assessment at local to global scales. Today, estimation of leaf nitrogen (N) as an indicator of rangeland quality is possible using hyperspectral systems. However, few studies based on commercial ...Read more
Author:May, Siyasanga I; Pratt, Lawrence E; Roro, Kittessa T; Bokoro, PDate:Nov 2021This work focuses on developing prediction models for the power output of multiple PV technologies installed at the outdoor test facility on the Pretoria campus of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Random Forest (RF) and ...Read more
Author:Nzuza, P; Ramoelo, Abel; Odindi, J; Mwenge Kahinda, Jean-Marc; Madonsela, SabeloDate:Sep 2020Land degradation is defined as the reduction of biological and economic productivity, which impedes the capacity of the land to provide ecosystem services. There is a need to move towards near real-time monitoring of land degradation using ...Read more
Author:Alimi, OA; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rimer, S; Alimi, KOADate:Apr 2022Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems play pivotal role in the operation of modern critical infrastructures (CIs). Technological advancements, innovations, economic trends, etc. have continued to improve SCADA systems ...Read more