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Browsing Research Articles (Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology) by Author "Rautenbach, Victoria"
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Acceptance of open source geospatial software : assessing QGIS in South Africa with the UTAUT2 model Henrico, Susanna Jacoba; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Cooper, Antony Kyle; Rautenbach, Victoria (Wiley, 2021-02)Geospatial information and technologies are widely used in South Africa, initially mostly with proprietary software but today, mature, open source alternatives such as QGIS are available. We wanted to find out if and why ...
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Tredrea, G.; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Rautenbach, Victoria (Copernicus Publications, 2020)Addresses are essential for disaster risk management and response because they are used to locate people affected by a disaster or at risk of being affected. South Africa is vulnerable to disasters, however, despite a ...
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Sinvula, Kisco M.; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Cooper, Antony Kyle; Owusu-Banahene, Wiafe; Nangolo, Emma; Rautenbach, Victoria; Hipondoka, Martin (European Commission Joint Research Centre, 2017)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, ...
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Madubedube, Aphiwe; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Rautenbach, Victoria (MDPI, 2021-03-11)Anyone can contribute geographic information to OpenStreetMap (OSM), regardless of their level of experience or skills, which has raised concerns about quality. When reference data is not available to assess the quality ...
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Coetzee, Serena Martha; Rautenbach, Victoria (Taylor and Francis, 2017)A design pattern approach for conceptualizing the cartographic design process is presented. A design pattern presents a solution to a problem by describing solutions for the commonalities in problems to be solved. The ...
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Hassim, L.; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Rautenbach, Victoria (Copernicus Publications, 2018)Informal settlements, also known as slums or shanty towns, are characterised by rapid and unstructured expansion, poorly constructed buildings, and in some cases, they are on disputed land. Such settlements often lack ...
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Rautenbach, Victoria; Bevis, Yvette; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Combrinck, Carin (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-11)Three-dimensional (3D) modelling and visualisation is one of the fastest growing application fields in geographic information science. 3D city models are being researched extensively for a variety of purposes and in ...
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Green, Cameron; Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha (Copernicus Publications, 2019)During mapathons, volunteers from various backgrounds get together to map a specific area using satellite imagery or aerial photographs. The expertise and motivation of these volunteers generally differ. In this paper, we ...
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Rautenbach, Victoria; Di Leo, M.; Andreo, V.; Delucchi, L.; Kudrnovsky, H.; McKenna, J.; Acosta y Lara, S. (Copernicus Publications, 2018)The Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s (OSGeo) vision is to empower everyone, from pre-university students to professionals, with open source geospatial applications, tools and resources. In 2017, OSGeo decided to participate ...
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Gong, X.; Erwee, F.; Rautenbach, Victoria (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2019-08)The latest version of pgAdmin4 was released in mid-2016 and moved to a web-based application that was written in Python and jQuery with Bootstrap, using the Flask framework. This new architecture of pgAdmin4 provided an ...
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Madubedube, Aphiwe; Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha (CONSAS Conference, 2018-09)Informal settlements are a common occurrence in the South African landscape. These settlements are not planned and therefore lack conventional urban characteristics, such as street names and a regular grid or block structure, ...
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Coltekin, A.; Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Mokwena, T. (Copernicus Publications, 2018)Relief inversion effect is a perceptual phenomenon that leads to an inverted perception of convex and concave shapes. This perceptual inversion occurs in scenes where the shading/shadows act as the main depth cue. In ...
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Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Iwaniak, Adam (Elsevier, 2013-01)An intelligent geoportal orchestrates (automatically coordinate) web services to prepare, discover and present information to the user. Implementations of web service standards by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ...
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Thuvander, L.; Green, Cameron; Adelfio, M.; Brandao, E.; Combrinck, Carin; Billger, M.; Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Du Plessis, Chrisna (IOP Publishing, 2020)This study discusses the establishment and pilot of a collaborative data library (CDL) for educational purposes, based on a transdisciplinary collaboration between the architecture departments at Chalmers University of ...
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Coetzee, Serena Martha; Rautenbach, Victoria; Du Plessis, Heindrich; France, Derek; Higgitt, David (Routledge, 2015-01)The South African Spatial Data Infrastructure (SASDI) was established in 2003. Registration of geographical information science (GISc) practitioners by the South African geomatics professional body followed in 2004 and ...
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Green, Cameron; Rautenbach, Victoria (Copernicus Publications, 2020-08)Many open source software communities rely on volunteer contributors and it is important to motivate, engage and retain members of the community to ensure long term sustainability of the community and software. Barrier ...
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Haynes, Megan; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Rautenbach, Victoria (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2019)Urban designers collect information about a city or neighborhood, design improvements so that the city is functional and pleasant to live in, and communicate these improvements to relevant stakeholders. The use of space ...
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Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Coltekin, A.; Petti, C.; Pijper, Lauren Kay; Madden, M.; Christophe, S.; Lkhamjav, O. (Copernicus Publications, 2019)Existing geospatial educational resources are not always easy to find and to integrate into an academic module, amongst others, because the required metadata is not available. As a consequence, simple search attempts do ...
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Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Çöltekin, Arzu (AfricaGEO 2014 Conference Proceedings, 2014)South Africa is faced with numerous socioeconomic problems, such as poverty and resource depletion. Sustainable planning is of great importance to ensure that the necessary resources are available for future generations. ...
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Coetzee, Serena Martha; Rautenbach, Victoria; Coltekin, A.; Pettit, C.; Madden, M.; Christophe, S.; Lkhamjav, O. (Copernicus Publications, 2020)Through the ISPRS scientific initiative presented in this paper, we aim to make geospatial educational resources available and discoverable to those who teach and those who want to learn. In earlier work, we designed and ...
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