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Browsing Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology by Type "Dissertation"
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Tropical weather systems are known to cause havoc due to heavy rain which leads to flooding. Continental Tropical Low pressures (CTLs) are one of such systems. Very little research has been dedicated to tropical weather ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-10-12)Open file dissertation.pdf to read abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-11-05)The Vaal Triangle is renowned for its highly industrialised activities. With the addition of domestic fuel burning, vehicle exhaust, mining and agricultural activities, the Vaal Airshed has become highly polluted. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Landmines pose a significant risk to the health and livelihood of millions of people in war-torn countries. From a humanitarian point of view, these hidden dangers must be detected and removed. Several detection methods ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Remaining ahead of the enemy in all circumstances is crucial to any military power. Technology, especially GIS, has become a key factor in military operations. GIS can provide the military commander with geospatial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Tshwane is one of the major metropolitan in Gauteng Province. This metropolitan continues to experience rapid urbanization as a result of population growth, leading to the conversion of natural lands into impervious surface ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The focus of this research was to determine the multi-temporal land cover changes (LCC) of the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) environment over 5 decades. The HartRAO site is a strategic point in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-27)Tropical temperate troughs (TTTs) that were associated with rainfall onsets in the Maize Triangle, South Africa, were analysed during the period from 1979 to 2018. Maize yields for agricultural regions within the Maize ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The establishment of Trans-frontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa facilitates the roaming of wildlife across international borders. The probability of disease transfer associated with wildlife and livestock contact ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)A prevalence of wildlife poaching with escalations has occurred since 2008, especially regarding rhinoceros poaching. It is essential to protect southern Africa’s heritage by developing/adapting new research methods and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Nutrient limitations may impact the ecosystem services the savanna biome provides. It may lead to degradation and, consequently, reduce the grazing capacity of the savannas if the necessary control measures are not implemented ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The teaching of pre-colonial urban settlements in Africa has been neglected and, where present, it has traditionally relied on false concepts of civilization that played directly into stereotypes of precolonial African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The purpose of this study was to investigate the suitability of using the OpenGL and OpenCL graphics application programming interfaces (APIs), to increase the speed at which 2D vector geographic information could be ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-08)Background Various local villages in the Vhembe district of South Africa have experienced high malaria infection rates together with a high variability of malaria case mortality rates over the past 20 years. This research ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Freshwater resources in South Africa are limited and scarce, which is mainly attributed to the country’s varying climate resulting in predominantly desert to semi-desert conditions. Among the freshwater resources, groundwater ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Wetlands are recognised as the important natural ecosystems in the world. The above-ground biomass (AGB) of wetland vegetation is essential for providing ecosystem services related to global climate change due to its ...
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Assessment of the Baseline Meteorological and Air Quality Conditions over Uubvlei Oranjemund Namibia (University of Pretoria, 2016)The 800 MW Kudu power project in south-west Namibia is a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) that will use natural gas from the Kudu gas field located in the Atlantic Ocean, 170 km off-shore. The Kudu Project aims to respond ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-05-13)Intensive land-use changes and management can serve as indicators for major impacts on biodiversity, especially when those changes show the loss of natural habitat due to urban sprawl, cultivation, mining, logging, and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-01-14)The key stakeholders to the Tsilitwa Project in Mhlontlo Local Municipality have a consistent understanding of what a sustainable community is and their understanding is generally consistent with the widely used and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Water quality is an essential and critical aspect in meeting basic human and environmental needs. The scarcity of rainfall and water in South Africa prompted the need to augment water supply by transferring water from other ...
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