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South Africa's commitment to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, requires the country to have an understanding of the range of ...
Holloway, Jennifer P; Ittmann, HW; Dudeni-Tlhone, Nontembeko; Schmitz, PMU(AJOL, 2018)
Elections draw enormous interest worldwide, especially if these involve major countries, and there is much speculation in the media as to possible outcomes from these elections. In many of these recent elections, such as ...
A key challenge in rural South Africa is providing social facilities such as clinics. This is difficult due to the nature of settlement distributions, especially in traditional authority areas. Geospatial accessibility ...
Mokgukulushi, AM; Hattingh, M; Cooper, Antony K(http://www.africageoproceedings.org.za/ also Consas Foundation NPC, 2018-09)
The main focus of this study was to investigate the level of integration between various public transport systems operating within the City of Johannesburg. Accessibility was used to evaluate integration, since integration ...
Deiss, JA; Berman, Robert J; Kienhofer, F(2018-09)
A performance-based standards (PBS) framework evaluates actual on-road performance of a vehicle, allowing the length and mass of a vehicle to exceed prescriptive legislation, without compromising on vehicle safety and ...
This presentation was part of the project, "Guidelines for Data Content Standards for Africa", which was initiated by the EROS Data Center of the United States Geological Survey (USGS/EROS) and EIS-Africa, with funding ...
The terms user-generated content, volunteered geographical information, crowdsourcing, citizen science and neogeography are elucidated. The purpose is to expose the range of meanings associated with these terms, and to ...
Geographically referenced (geo-referenced) information consists of all information that refers to the man-environment system and that can be localized in space and time. The basic entity of geo-referenced information is ...
Models which integrate and evaluate diverse factors of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change can be used to guide planners in making more informed decisions and achieving a balance between urban growth and preservation of ...
This paper is centred on an investigation of whether the integrating earth observation and census data can result in useful information to support transport planning and monitoring. In particular circular buffers with radii ...
Recently, the CSIR has been involved in two projects investigating information technology
(IT) and related processes in the civil and criminal justice systems, one with the Department of Justice focusing on civil justice, ...
Remaining ahead of the enemy in all circumstances is crucial to any military power. Geographic information systems (GIS) can provide the military commander with geospatial information about the theatre of war to assist ...
Arnold, Kathryn A; Le Roux, Alize; Hattingh, M(CONSAS Conference, 2017-08)
The core objective of this study was to analyse the impact of three Gautrain stations on real estate in the City of Johannesburg, looking specifically at how the Sandton, Rosebank and Midrand stations affected property ...
A food environment is a combination of physical, biological, social and psychological factors that affect the eating habits and patterns of people. The food environment is determined by the availability, affordability and ...
Spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) at various levels (global, regional national, local and corporate) are being developed by and in countries around the world. We assess here the SDI developments in three African countries, ...
The demand for geospatial data across different disciplines and organisations has led to the development and implementation of spatial data infrastructures (SDI) and the theory and concepts behind them. An SDI is an evolving ...
This study explored the availability of and accessibility to, healthy and varied food in the Hatfield and Hillcrest suburbs of Tshwane, South Africa. These suburbs are adjacent to the main campus of the University of ...
In terms of air quality management in the urban setting, an on-road vehicle emissions inventory is important, particularly in growing economies as private vehicle ownership increases. The basis of vehicle emissions inventory ...
This presentation provides an overview of a meta-language for land use classification. It also explains why land use can’t always be determined from imagery, and why land use is not the same as land cover, zoning or ...