• Development and evaluation of a specialized task taxonomy for spatial planning – a map literacy experiment with topographic maps 

  Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Coltekin, Arzu (Elsevier, 2017-05)

  Topographic maps are among the most commonly used map types, however, their complex and information-rich designs depicting natural, human-made and cultural features make them difficult to read. Regardless of their complexity, ...
• Results of an evaluation of augmented reality mobile development frameworks for addresses in augmented reality 

  Rautenbach, Victoria; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Jooste, Danie (Springer, 2016-06)

  Addresses displayed on dwellings and buildings play a key role in society. Amongst others, they are used for deliveries, in household surveys, to navigate, or to find friends. Sometimes, address signs are destroyed, displaced ...
• Results from a survey of the South African GISc community show who they are and what they do 

  Coetzee, Serena Martha; Eksteen, Sanet Patricia; Roos, Adrian (CONSAS Conference, 2014-08)

  In the wake of the rapidly increasing global geospatial industry, a shortage of registered GISc professionals, as well as professional GISc registration challenges, have been reported in South Africa. The suitability of ...
• A qualitative comparison of South Africa’s geomatics professional body’s academic model against industry’s understanding of SDI knowledge and skills requirements 

  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 ...
• Tertiary education institutions in Africa : cloudy with a chance of GISc education in some countries 

  Coetzee, Serena Martha; Eksteen, Sanet Patricia; Smit, Julian L.; Whittal, Jennifer (CONSAS Conference, 2012-08)

  The world is facing many global challenges: climate change, food security, sustainable development and humanitarian assistance after disasters, to name a few. For Africa with its many natural resources, fast increasing ...
• Address data sharing : organizational motivators and barriers and their implications for the South African spatial data infrastructure 

  Sebake, Malete Daniel; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (European Commission Joint Research Centre, 2013)

  An address is a common reference for a multitude of information. In South Africa, multiple address datasets are developed and maintained by various public and private organizations with little or no cooperation on data ...
• Towards evaluating the map literacy of planners in 2D maps and 3D models in South Africa 

  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. ...
• On the global geodetic observing system : Africa's preparedness and challenges 

  Botai, Joel Ongego; Combrinck, Ludwig; Rautenbach, Cornelis Johannes de Wet (Elsevier, 2013-02)

  .Space geodetic techniques and satellite missions play a crucial role in the determination and monitoring of geo-kinematics, Earth’s rotation and gravity fields. These three pillars of geodesy provide the basis for determining ...
• Application of the Land Administration Domain Model to the City of Johannesburg Land Information System 

  Tjia, Dinao; Coetzee, Serena Martha (CONSAS Conference, 2013-06)

  The paper explores the adoption of ISO 19152, Geographic information -- Land Administration Domain Model (LADM), in the enhancement of the current City of Johannesburg Land Information System (CoJLIS) data model. The CoJLIS ...
• Comparing three spaceborne optical sensors via fine scale pixel based urban land cover classification products 

  Breytenbach, Andre; Eloff, Corne; Pretorius, Erika (CONSAS Conference, 2013-08)

  Accessibility to higher resolution earth observation satellites suggests an improvement in the potential for fine scale image classification. In this comparative study, imagery from three optical satellites (WorldView-2, ...
• Sustainable development : the contribution from GISc education in South Africa 

  Coetzee, Serena Martha; Eksteen, Sanet Patricia; Grundling, Christopher (CONSAS Conference, 2013-06)

  Concerns over the negative impact of the deteriorating environment and declining natural resources on economic and social development prompted the drive towards sustainable development, i.e. development that meets the needs ...
• Are earth sciences lagging behind in data integration methodologies? 

  Paasche, Hendrik; Eberle, Detlef; Das, Sonali; Cooper, Antony Kyle; Debba, Pravesh; Dietrich, Peter; Dudeni-Thlone, Nontembeko; Gläßer, Cornelia; Kijko, Andrzej; Knobloch, Andreas; Lausch, Angela; Meyer, Uwe; Smit, Ansie; Stettler, E. (Edgar Heinz); Werban, Ulrike (Springer, 2014-02)

  This article reflects discussions German and South African Earth scientists, statisticians and risk analysts had on occasion of two bilateral workshops on Data Integration Technologies for Earth System Modelling and ...
• Effect of farming activities on seasonal variation of water quality of Bonsma Dam, KwaZulu-Natal 

  Shabalala, A.N.; Combrinck, W.L.; McCrindle, Robert (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-03-15)

  Agriculture has both direct and indirect effects on the quality of surface water and groundwater and is among the leading causes of water quality degradation, mainly as a result of the excessive use of agrochemicals. Water ...
• A new model for the City of Johannesburg information : Part 1 

  Coetzee, Serena Martha; Tjia, Dinao (3SMedia, 2013)

  The application of the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) to the City of Johannesburg Land Information System is based on the fact that different organisations have different responsibilities in data maintenance. Part ...
• Webdiens vir tematiese kartering 

  Rautenbach, Victoria (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013)

  The goal of the research is to evaluate proprietary software and solutions suggested by other researchers for the implementation of a mechanism for the production of thematic maps on desktop and web applications, as well ...
• A spatial data infrastructure model from the computational viewpoint 

  Cooper, Antony Kyle; Moellering, Harold; Hjelmager, Jan; Rapant, Petr; Delgado, Tatiana; Laurent, Dominique; Coetzee, Serena Martha; Danko, David M.; Düren, Ulrich; Iwaniak, Adam; Brodeur, Jean; Abad, Paloma; Huet, Michel; Rajabifard, Abbas (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

  The Commission on Geoinformation Infrastructures and Standards of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is working on defining models of spatial data infrastructures (SDI). SDI models from the enterprise ...
• Orchestrating OGC web services to produce thematic maps in a spatial information infrastructure 

  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 ...
• Paper-based GIS : a practical answer to the implementation of GIS education into resource-poor schools in South Africa 

  Breetzke, Gregory Dennis; Eksteen, Sanet Patricia; Pretorius, Erika (Taylor and Francis, 2011)

  Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was phased into the geography curriculum of South African schools from 2006-2008 as part of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) for Grades 10-12. Since its introduction, GIS ...
• Inferences of α-stable distribution of the underlying noise components in geodetic data 

  Botai, Joel Ongego; Combrinck, Ludwig; Sivakumar, Venkataraman (Geological Society of South Africa, 2011-12)

  We investigate the use of distribution functions to characterise the geophysical signals and noise components embedded in the geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data sets across some of the International ...
• Global geopotential models from satellite laser ranging data with geophysical applications : a review 

  Botai, Mihloti Christina; Combrinck, Ludwig (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2012-03)

  The launch of artificial satellites (as early as in 1957), specifically the launch of the first laser tracked satellite, Beacon-B, in 1964, has provided data sets which have allowed researchers to probe the long to medium ...

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