Author:Coetzer, KL; Erasmus, BFN; Witkowski, ETF; Bachoo, AKDate:Jul 2010This paper is a first step towards a conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on the South African Central Lowveld, quantifying the historical land-cover trends (1993-2006). During the analysis period, 36% of the ...Read more
Author:Ramoelo, Abel; Munyati, C; Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Le Maitre, David C; Van Aardt, JDate:Sep 2007Land degradation is of great concern in South Africa particularly in the Inkomati catchment. Here a mosaic of different land use types such as plantation agriculture, subsistence farming, irrigated commercial farming, rural and urban settlements, ...Read more
Author:Effossou, KA; Cho, Moses ADate:Jun 2021There is a growing demand of land by multinational commercial agribusinesses to meet the increasing demand for food in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the export market. Land tenure system is identified as one of the factors stymieing the growth ...Read more
Author:Tizora, P; Le Roux, Alize; Mans, Gerbrand G; Cooper, Antony KDate:Jul 2016The Western Cape Province is currently faced with population growth, declining household sizes, increasing household numbers, high levels of migration, urbanization and escalating development pressures. These factors have consequently triggered ...Read more
Author:Malunga, MM; Cho, Moses A; Chirwa, PW; Yerokun, OADate:Aug 2021The pattern of Miombo woodland conversion to other land uses and the attendant impacts on vital Miombo ecosystems such as dambos is not well understood. Using the Copperbelt province of Zambia as a case study, we assessed the spatio-temporal ...Read more
Author:Goede, MF; Cho, Moses A; Chirwa, W; Geldenhuys, CJDate:Jan 2020Miombo Woodland is the major Land use/land cover with important ecological functions in Africa. In Malawi, government-management was designed to manage Woodlands. However, when illegal activities continued, Participatory Forest Management ...Read more
Author:Biggs, R; Scholes, RJDate:Sep 2002The area under cultivation in South Africa more than tripled during the twentieth century, while plantation area increased more than tenfold. These land covers now constitute 12% and 1.5%, respectively, of the country's surface area. This ...Read more
Author:Grobler, TL; Ackermann, ER; Olivier, JC; Van Zyl, AJ; Kleynhans, WDate:Jun 2012It is proposed that the time series extracted from moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer satellite data be modeled as a simple harmonic oscillator with additive colored noise. The colored noise ismodeled with an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:Oct 2013The introduction of landfill permits by Section 20 of the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, resulted in the development of the Minimum Requirements series of documents to guide waste disposal to landfill. The promulgation of the National ...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:Riley, DL; Strydom, I; Chikwamba, Rachel K; Panayides, Jenny-LeeDate:2019Africa is one of the world's fastest growing economies, with South Africa having the fifth highest worldwide pharmaceutical expenditure per capita. In recent years, several companies have considered regional pharmaceutical production but have ...Read more
Author:Kemper, J; Cowling, RM; Richardson, DM; Forsyth, GG; McKelly, DHDate:Apr 2000The South Coast Renosterveld has been fragmented extensively by agriculture. The extent of this fragmentation in terms of overall habitat loss, fragment sizes and fragment numbers has not been described previously, thereby limiting the ...Read more
Author:Tekane, YC; Twala, B; Marwala, TDate:Jan 2015We consider the problem of mapping with Miniature Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) in outdoor sites with distinguishable landscapes. The primary long range sensor in these MAVs is a miniature camera. While previous approaches first try to build a 3D ...Read more
Author:De Jager, Peta; Van Reenen, Coralie A; Napier, Mark; Sebake, Thandi N; Bole, SheldonDate:Dec 2019Copyright 2019 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Read more
Author:Barnard, E; Cloete, L; Patel, Hina MDate:2003The paper presents research aimed at overcoming barriers to citizens’ ability to access electronic government services. Our concern is specifically ‘non-connectivity’ barriers to electronic service delivery including cultural background, ...Read more
Author:Kleynhans, NT; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2005An investigation into the performance of current speaker verification technology within a multilingual context is presented. Using the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) Multi-Language Telephone Speech Corpus (MLTS) database, the authors found ...Read more