Author:Dlodlo, NDate:Apr 2012This paper reports on potential applications of IoT technologies that could contribute to sustainable environmental management (EM in South Africa). These technologies have been categorised under environmental quality and protection, natural ...Read more
Author:Landman, WA; Graham, R; Knight, J; Engelbrecht, C; Olivier, CDate:Oct 2012The main objective of this research is to demonstrate the skill of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre’s coupled global seasonal forecasting system, GloSea4, as a seasonal forecasting tool for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and ...Read more
Author:Mdakane, Lizwe W; Meyer, Rory GV; Sibolla, Bolelang HDate:Aug 2020Oil spill over the sea surface formed because of oil-tanker accidents or illegal bilge dumping of tankers can cause significant environmental damage depending on the location and amount. The international legislation contains minor and ...Read more
Author:Smith-Godfrey, SDate:2016Oceans are increasingly gaining in importance in terms of enabling international trade via linking sellers and buyers. The behaviour patterns of such linking enablers on the oceans are receiving more attention from a regulatory and economic ...Read more
Author:Mdakane, Lizwe W; Kleynhans, WDate:Oct 2020Oil spills are often caused by vessels when dumping oily bilge wastewater at sea (also referred to as bilge dumping). In an synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, oil spills dampen the radar energy return and appear as linearly shaped dark ...Read more
Author:Smith, SimoneDate:Jan 2021The chapter is centred around the core of Blue Economy and the disciplines that may support the Blue Economy activities as an attempt to indicate the direct and indirect impacts the Blue Economy activities and the disciplines that supports ...Read more
Author:Lord, DA; Anderson, FP; Basson, JKDate:Oct 1984The rational development of major projects involving the marine disposal of effluents by pipelines requires the close cooperation of planners, scientists and engineers.
In May 1983, a workshop entitled 'Pipeline Discharges of Effluents to ...Read more
Author:Hennig, HF-KODate:Aug 1985In this report Background levels and levels of metal accumulation in water, sediments and fauna were determined using a typical data set from South Africa-This was done to establish the extent and reliability of the available data and to ...Read more
Author:Monteiro, Pedro MS; Dewitte, B; Scranton, MI; Paulmier, A; Van der Plas, AKDate:2011In this study the authors investigate the possible reasons for the widespread differences between the seasonal cycles of carbon production and export compared to those of hypoxia in eastern boundary upwelling systems. An idealized model is ...Read more
Author:Schwegmann, Colin P; Kleynhans, Waldo; Salmon, BP; Mdakane, Lizwe W; Meyer, Rory GVDate:Jul 2017A major task in any discrimination scenario requires the collection and validation of as many examples as possible. Depending on the type of data this can be a time consuming process, especially when dealing with large remote sensing data ...Read more