Contents

Message from the Acting Director ........................................................................................................ 2

The CGIS team .............................................................................................................................................. 3 1. Advisory Board ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3

1.1 Chairperson ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Representatives of key stakeholders .......................................................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Heads of collaborating departments and schools at the University of Pretoria ...................................................... 4 1.4 Ex officio members ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4

2. Staff and collaborators ........................................................................................................................................................ 4 3. Postgraduate students ......................................................................................................................................................... 5

3.1 Masters students .................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 3.2 Doctoral students ................................................................................................................................................................................ 6

2014 Highlights ........................................................................................................................................... 8 1. Research .................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

1.1 GISc Education and Training in Africa ....................................................................................................................................... 8 1.2 Forensic Geography ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8 1.3 Space geodesy, earth observation and atmospheric remote sensing ........................................................................ 10 1.4 Spatial data infrastructures .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 1.5 ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab Network ................................................................................................................................................... 13

2. Internal platform at UP .................................................................................................................................................... 13 2.1 Unit for Geoinformation and Mapping (UGM) ...................................................................................................................... 14 2.2 Graduate and postgraduate lecturing....................................................................................................................................... 15 2.3 Student research seminars ............................................................................................................................................................ 16 2.4 Geospatial Tech Camp for high school learners ................................................................................................................... 17

3. Partner to the geoinformation industry of South Africa ...................................................................................... 18 3.1 CE at UP courses................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 3.2 Geo-information Society of South Africa (GISSA) ............................................................................................................... 18 3.3 Guest lectures by industry representatives ........................................................................................................................... 19 3.4 Industry visits by first year students ........................................................................................................................................ 19

4. Research output .................................................................................................................................................................. 19 4.1 Conferences, workshops, meetings and visitors ................................................................................................................. 20 4.2 Peer-reviewed journal articles .................................................................................................................................................... 20 4.3 Papers presented at refereed conferences ............................................................................................................................ 21 4.4 Chapters in books .............................................................................................................................................................................. 21 4.5 Non-refereed output ........................................................................................................................................................................ 21 4.6 Theses, dissertations and Honours reports ........................................................................................................................... 22

5. Funding ................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Annex A: Constitution of the Centre for Geoinformation Science (CGIS) ............................. 24

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Message from the Acting Director Geoinformation science (GISc), also known as Geoinformatics, is concerned with the nature of geographic information and the use of geospatial technologies to collect, store, integrate, transform, retrieve, analyse, display and distribute geographic information from different sources. GISc is a multi-disciplinary endeavour, drawing on other disciplines, such as geography, mathematics, statistics and computer science. Due to recent developments, there is a renewed need for the coordination of GISc research, education and training, professional development and community engagement at the University of Pretoria.

The Centre for Geoinformation Science (CGIS) is a UP platform for individuals and teams involved in GISc research, education, training, professional development and community engagement. CGIS aims to facilitate GISc research collaborations; to establish education, training and professional alliances within South Africa and abroad; and to be a partner to the South African geoinformation industry in support of GISc research, education, training, professional development and community engagement.

Below CGIS 2014 in numbers:

1250 GIS users at UP 800+ undergraduate students 450+ staff and postgraduates

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16 Advisory Board Members 17 Staff and collaborators

Supervisors

from 6 departments in 2 faculties at UP

Vaal University of Technology University of Zürich

HartRAO SANSA CSIR

postgraduate students 16 Honours, 16 Masters, 18 Doctoral

GIS products for teaching

8+ licensed products

Postgraduate graduations

Research output Peer-reviewed journal articles: 9

Peer-reviewed conference papers: 4 Peer-reviewed chapters in books: 3

Non-refereed outputs: 9

Conferences, workshops, meetings

1 PhD 2 Masters

10+ open source products

4 BE at UP projects 6 CE at UP courses

7 student research seminars 7 guest lectures by industry partners

Funding National Research Foundation (NRF); Armscor (via a funding mechanism through the CSIR); Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform; Department of Science and Technology (DST); European Union; the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA); Secretariat of the National Planning Commission in the Presidency of South Africa; South African Bureau of Standards (SABS); South Korean Spatial Information Research Institute (SIRI).

A salute and thank you to everyone who make CGIS happen!

Prof Serena Coetzee CGIS: Acting Director April 2015

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The CGIS team

1. Advisory Board The Advisory Board provides strategic direction and advice regarding marketing, as well as the research, education and training, professional development, community engagement, and capacity building in CGIS; it also advises on operational decisions, reviews the annual budget and reviews the realization of the vision and the execution of the mission.

1.1 Chairperson

Prof Anton Ströh Chairperson: CGIS Advisory Board Dean: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria

1.2 Representatives of key stakeholders

Dr Herman Booysen

Past National Chair: Geo-information Society of South

Africa (GISSA)

Dr Derek Clarke Vice-President:

International Cartographic Association

(ICA)

Mr Adri de la Rey GIS Manager, Technology, Eskom

Mr Gavin Fleming Chair: OSGeo Africa and

Managing Director: Afrispatial

Mr Ashwell Jeneker

Deputy Director-General: Statistical Support and Informatics, Stats SA

Dr Pat Manders Group Manager:

Institutional Planning, CSIR

Mr Paul Marshall ✝29.9.2014 President: South African Council for Professional and Technical

Land Surveyors (PLATO)

Dr Jane Olwoch Managing Director:

SANSA Earth Observation

South African National Space Agency

Mr Magnus Rademeyer Managing Director, AfriGIS

Ms Chenay Simms (resigned in 2014)

Esri Education, Esri South Africa

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1.3 Heads of collaborating departments and schools at the University of Pretoria

Prof Theo Bothma Chair: School of Information

Technology

Prof Andries Engelbrecht Head: Department of Computer Science

Prof Pat Eriksson (retired in 2014)

Head: Department of Geology

1.4 Ex officio members

Prof Hannes Rautenbach

(resigned in 2014) Head: Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and

Meteorology

Prof Serena Coetzee Acting Director: CGIS,

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology

2. Staff and collaborators

Ingrid Booysen Senior Cartographer, Head: Unit for Geoinformation and Mapping

Dr Joel Botai Senior Lecturer

CGIS research focus group on Space geodesy, earth observation and atmospheric remote sensing

Prof Ludwig Combrinck

Extraordinary professor, Affiliation:

HartRAO

Antony Cooper Extraordinary Lecturer,

Affiliation: CSIR

Sanet Eksteen

(resigned in 2014) Lecturer

Joos Esterhuizen Lecturer

Dr Renaud Mathieu Extraordinary Senior Lecturer, Affiliation:

CSIR

Teboho Mokono DST/NRF sponsored intern

May 2014 – Dec 2014

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Apelele Nkonki

Administrative assistant Oct 2014 – Feb 2015

Erika Pretorius Technical Assistant

Victoria Rautenbach PhD Geoinformatics

student CGIS student

representative

Wendy Sello Administrative assistant

Jul 2014 – Aug 2014

Dr Peter Schmitz

Extraordinary Senior Lecturer, CGIS research focus group on

Forensic geography, Affiliation: CSIR

Philemon Tsela Lecturer

Fritz van der Merwe Senior Lecturer

Dr Konrad Wessels Extraordinary Senior

Lecturer, Affiliation: CSIR

Brendon Wolff-Piggott CGIS Research Associate

3. Postgraduate students In 2014, 16 Masters and 18 doctoral students were associated with CGIS through their research. They were enrolled for Masters and PhD studies in Computer Sceince, Environment & Society, Geography, Geoinformatics, Information Technology and Zoology. Their supervisors were from the Departments of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (GGM), Computer Science, Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Wildlife and Animal Sciences, Zoology and Entomology, as well as the CSIR, HartRAO, SANSA, Vaal University of Technology and the University of Zürich. Degrees are conferred by the respective departments, schools and faculties.

3.1 Masters students

Adeniyi Adeyemi, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Dr Abel Ramoelo (CSIR) Research: Analysis of impervious surfaces across Tshwane by use of remote and in-situ measurements

Paul Barasa, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Integration, evaluation and analysis of meteorological data as applied to Satellite and Lunar Laser Ranging

Sean Cullen, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Dr Hassen Abubekar (Wildlife and Animal Sciences) Research: Determining remote sensing techniques for pasture quality and quantity Denise Dale, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Development and analysis of a strategic independent VLBI network for Europe to accurately determine Earth

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orientation parameters needed for precision positioning and navigation on Earth and in space Rebecca Ditlopo, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM), Dr Abel Ramoelo (CSIR) and Dr George Ochieng (Vaal University) Research: Analysis of water reservoirs by use of remote sensing and in-situ data in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Nondimizo Dlamini, MSc Geography Supervisors: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Dr Moses Cho (CSIR) Research: Investigating the characteristics of expansive soils through remote sensing and in situ measurements

Lauren Hankel, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisors: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) and Mr Graeme McFerren (CSIR Meraka Institute) Research: Rapid, distributed processing of medium velocity geospatial datastreams into contextualised 3D visualisations: evaluating the cloud computing paradigm

Jared Jacobson, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisors: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) and Prof Derrick Kourie (Computer Science) Research: Assessing OpenGL for 2D rendering of geospatial data

Samy Katumba, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) Research: Empirical tests using search engine optimisation techniques to compare the effectiveness of two metadata vocabularies for geospatial data discovery on the Web Makgaba Lehong, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) Research: Spatial analysis over Okiep Copper District for copper deposit detection and evaluation of previously-mined copper host-rock

Mauritz de Bruin, MSc Geography Supervisors: Dr Peter Schmitz (CSIR) and Prof Paul Sumner (GGM) Research: The application of forensic geomorphology in rhino poaching (South Africa). Mbali Mahlayeye, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Dr Abel Ramoelo (CSIR) Research: Land use land cover change analysis based on parametric and non-parametric classification schemes

Lisa Mbwia, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Analysis of land cover changes of the Hartebeesthoek Environ over five decades

Noh Tewolde, MSc Computer Science Supervisor: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) Research: Evaluating a semantic approach to address data interoperability Dinao Tjia, MSc Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) Research: Towards a land administration domain model profile for South Africa

Arne Verhoef, MSc Zoology Supervisors: Prof Kerstin Krüger (Zoology), Prof Jacquie van Der Waals (Microbiology and Plant Pathology), Prof Coleen Vogel (GGM) and Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) Research: Perceptual networks to AARM policy decision making: interactive and contextual mapping to assist knowledge development

3.2 Doctoral students

Abiodun Adeola, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisors: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Dr Jane Olwoch (SANSA) Research: Malaria Early Warning System (MEWS) for South Africa

Omolola Adisa, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM), Dr Daniel Darkey (GGM) and Dr Hassen Abubekar (Wildlife and Animal Sciences) Research: Vulnerability of livestock production systems under the Changing Climate: South Africa

Antony Cooper, PhD IT Supervisors: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) and Prof Derrick Kourie (Computer Science) Research: Volunteered geographic information (VGI) for spatial data infrastructures (SDI)

Ivan Henrico, PhD Geoinformatics

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Supervisors: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Geometric accuracy improvement of high resolution satellite imagery during orthorectification procedures with the use of ground control points

Sibusiswe Hlela, DPhil Geography Supervisors: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) and Mr Antony Cooper (CSIR) Research: Competency model for the geographic information at government departments

Olalekan Isioye, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Developing a near- real-time water vapour system using GNSS for Nigeria

Kibii Komen, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Dr Jane Olwoch (SANSA) Research: Climate change, malaria and the Limpopo province

Edward Kurwakumire, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) Research: Value chain dynamics of geographic information in spatial data infrastructures Russell Main, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Konrad Wessels (CSIR Meraka Institute) and Dr Renaud Mathieu (CSIR Meraka Institute) Research: Regional scale mapping of woody resources using hyper-temporal C-band SAR imagery, in the Southern African lowveld

Freddy Milambo, PhD Environment and Society Supervisors: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Dr Jane Olwoch (SANSA) Research: Impact of climate change on the distribution of tomato pests in the Limpopo province of South Africa

Webby Miyoba, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Development of an integrated and automated space geodetic system for continuous monitoring of vector ties at the hartebeesthoek radio observatory

Cilence Munghemezulu, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Development of an integrated timing and photon detection system for the HartRAO Lunar Laser Ranger

Ivan Muzondo, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Joel Botai (GGM) and Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Analysis and interpretation of current and theoretical development of a more optimal Global Navigation Satellite System network for the African Geodetic Reference Frame

Laven Naidoo, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Dr Konrad Wessels (CSIR Meraka Institute) and Dr Renaud Mathieu (CSIR Meraka Institute) Research: Savannah Woody Structural Assessment in the Greater Kruger National Park region, South Africa, using a Multi-frequency, Multi-seasonal and Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical data integrated approach

Wiafe Owusu-Banahene, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) Research: Evaluating different options of integrating linked open data into standard geospatial web services for thematic mapping

Victoria Rautenbach, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) and Dr Arzu Çöltekin (University of Zürich) Research: Three-dimensional geovisualization for spatial planning Kisco Sinvula, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Serena Coetzee (GGM) Research: Modelling spatial data infrastructures

Philemon Tsela, PhD Geoinformatics Supervisor: Prof Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) Research: Development of a thermal monitoring system and analysis of climate change factors for a Lunar Laser Ranging telescope in South Africa

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2014 Highlights Activities in 2014 continued to contribute towards achieving the CGIS vision: striving to be an internal platform for GISc at UP, a facilitator of UP GISc research collaborations and a partner to the geoinformation industry of South Africa. Highlights of 2014 activities are provided in this section.

1. Research

1.1 GISc Education and Training in Africa

The aim of this focus group is to determine the status of GISc in three areas, namely: tertiary institutions, secondary schools and the GISc industry. This research includes the level and availability of training as well as the usage of GISc in Africa with specific focus on South Arica.

Serena Coetzee, Sanet Eksteen and CGIS students contributed to the survey of the geoinformation community of South Africa conducted by the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA). The aim of the survey was to gain a better understanding of who the members of the South African geo-information community are and what they do at work. Experts from the South African GISc industry provided feedback on draft versions of the survey. The final survey was distributed to 2,250 email addresses registered on the GISSA website. 626 respondents completed the questionnaire.

Distribution of GISc knowledge and skills applied at least once a month by respondents to the survey

(Source: Coetzee et al. 2014)

The results contribute to the on-going initiative to gain a better understanding of the supply and demand for GISc knowledge and skills in South Africa. Such understanding is important for the implementation of the new Geomatics Profession Act 19 of 2013, as well as for the development of the South African Geo-spatial Information Management Strategy. Survey results can inform GISc capacity building initiatives to ensure that the supply of GISc knowledge and skills meets the demand. Follow up research on the demand for GISc skills in South Africa is currently underway in collaboration with GISSA and the Department Rural Development and Land Reform.

First results of the survey were presented by Adrian Roos, GISSA National Chair, at the GISSA Annual General Meeting in March 2014. A full article on the results was published in the South African Journal of Geomatics later in the year (Coetzee et al. 2014).

1.2 Forensic Geography

The aim of this focus group is to research topics where GISc and geoscience in the broad sense can be used for forensic purposes. There are four focus areas within this group, namely applying geomorphology for forensic purposes; investigating the impact of explosives on plants; cellular telephone analysis and crime mapping.

Data acqusition

10%Data

manipulation9%

Data modelling9%

Cartography and visualization

9%

Analytical methods

9%Geospatial

data9%

Design aspects

8%

GIS Technology and Society

9%

Organizational and institutional

8%

Programming6%

Spatial statistics

7%

Mathematics5%

Physics2%

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Mauritz de Bruin is currently investigating the possibility of linking poachers to poaching sites using geomorphology to determine possible routes. Once the routes are determined, samples are taken at specific points along the routes and at the poaching site itself. These samples are then compared to samples obtained from suspects’ shoes, clothing and vehicle foot wells. The chemical compositions and the sand grain analysis are used to exclude the samples from the field from the samples extracted from the suspects.

Movements of the suspects and victim (Source: Schmitz et al. 2013)

Niell du Plooy is continuing with the research started by Rene Smit in 2013 on the impact of leached explosives on plants. The study has been expanded to include grasses and shrubs. The study is partly funded by Armscor via their funding mechanism through the CSIR.

With regards to cellular telephone analysis, methods are being investigated to make the mapping of this data more understandable. It was discovered that some users of the mapped data have difficulty to understand the maps, especially when the space-time cube is used to show movement and usage through space and time. See map above. 9

Research into crime mapping has been initiated and will be done together with the CSIR and the University of South Africa.

1.3 Space geodesy, earth observation and atmospheric remote sensing

The shape, gravity field and rotation of the Earth (the pillars of geodesy) are affected by mass transport and redistribution in the earth system (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, cryosphere and the interior of the solid earth). In order to better understand the earth system processes and investigate mass transport associated with geodynamics, natural hazards and even climate change, a system that is capable of continuous measurement and monitoring small changes (characterising the inherent earth system processes) with unprecedented spatial-temporal resolution and accuracy is required. To this end, space geodetic techniques such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Interferometry Syntetic Aparture Radar (InSAR), Satellite Gravimetry (e.g., CHAMP/GRACE/GOCE) and Radio Occultation (RO) have demonstrated such capability. The space geodesy focus group at CGIS conducts geodetic, geophysical and atmospheric research through the use of various data products derived through space geodetic techniques and other fields that rely on space geodesy for their observations in collaboration with national and international research groups.

Project involvement in 2014:

AnimalChange, a European Union (EU) funded project on the integration of mitigation and adaptation options for sustainable livestock production under climate change

ARCHE_NET Network, a network throughout the Indian Ocean to strengthen the exchanges and share of knowledge between research centers, extension services and supply chain actors.

Atmospheric Research in Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (GDRI ARSAIO), an international research group of an atmospheric environment observatory network together with research teams from various institutions in South Africa and France

Quantifying Weather and Climate Impacts on Health in Developing Countries (QWECI), an EU funded project MODEXTREME, a European Union (EU) funded project on agriculture facing extreme climatic events

ANAFE (African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resource Education ) FAO, a European Union (EU) funded project on supporting smallholder farmers in South Africa to better manage climate-related risks to crop production and post-harvest handling.

1.4 Spatial data infrastructures

A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) involves everything and anything that is required to make spatial data from various sources useful and available to a wide audience. This includes spatial data, technologies, systems (hardware and software), standards, policies, legislation, agreements, human and economic resources, institutions, organisational aspects and people, which have to be carefully orchestrated to achieve an SDI's objective. We research various aspects of an SDI, such as geographic information standards, geovisualization, sharing and interoperability of address data and the use of volunteered geographic information in an SDI.

We are involved in ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics, as Convenor of WG 7, Information Communities (Antony Cooper), Chair: Programme Maintenance Group (Serena Coetzee), Chair: Advisory Group on Outreach (Victoria Rautenbach) and project lead for ISO 19160-1, Addressing – Part 1: Conceptual Model (Serena Coetzee). All three of us make presentations at the ISO/TC 211 Plenaries about the groups we lead. We also contribute as project experts on various other standards. Antony Cooper has been the South African Head of Delegation to the ISO/TC 211 plenary meetings for the past 15 years. Attendance of the ISO/TC 211 plenary meetings are financially supported by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS). We are also actively involved in SABS/TC 211, Geographic information, the local mirror committee of ISO/TC 211.

UP CGIS is still one of the very few African members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Through this membership our students and staff have access to OGC webinars with technology providers and advanced technology users; members-only OGC documents on the OGC portal; and OGC face-to-face meetings.

Our involvement in ISO/TC 211 and OGC leads to many other research related activities. For example, the South Korean Spatial Information Research Institute (SIRI) commissioned CGIS to assist with background research on standardization requirements for the rendering of addresses for purposes other than mail, e.g. for displaying addresses on mobile devices. Subsequently, the Korean Standards Association submitted a new work item proposal for preparatory work on ISO 19160-5, Addressing - Part 5: Address rendering for purposes other than mail, early in 2015. Draft profiles of ISO 19160-1, Addressing – Part 1: Conceptual model, for South Korean and South African addresses were produced as part of the project and are published at http://standards.iso.org/iso/19160/-1/.

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As Chair of the Advisory Group on Outreach, Victoria Rautenbach from CGIS arranged two ISO/TC 211 Standards in Action workshops in conjunction with the plenary weeks in Berlin, Germany (June 2014) and Shenzhen, China (November 2014). A variety of topics were covered in the workshops, ranging from standard implementation guidelines for Africa to proposals for new standards to be developed. The workshops provide an excellent opportunity for the local community to network and learn from international experts. Workshop presentations are available online at http://www.isotc211.org/Workshop_Berlin/Workshop_Berlin.htm and http://www.isotc211.org/Workshop_Shenzhen/Workshop_Shenzhen.htm respectively.

Antony Cooper, Victoria Rautenbach and Serena Coetzee at the SABS Quality Awards Gala Dinner in the Sandton Convention

Centre on 10 October 2014 where Victoria received the SABS Young Standards Professional Award for 2014.

We are very proud of Victoria Rautenbach who won the SABS Young Standards Professional Award for 2014. The SABS (www.sabs.co.za) honours an exceptional contribution to the Standards Development fraternity with the award. At 26 years of age, Victoria already holds a leadership position in ISO/TC 211, Geographic Information/Geomatics, and actively participates in its local mirror committee, SABS/TC 211, Geographic Information. She is the South African nominated expert on several projects, including the revision of ISO 19103, Geographic information - Conceptual Schema Language, and ISO 19119, Geographic information – Services, and has represented South Africa on several editing committees, including ISO 19101-1, Geographic information - Reference model - Part 1: Fundamentals, ISO 19150-1, Geographic information - Ontology - Part 1: Fundamentals, and ISO 19154, Geographic information - Ubiquitous public access - Reference model. Victoria’s most significant contribution to ISO/TC 211 is on outreach activities. She has been the online presence for ISO/TC 211 for several years now, responding to online queries on the Facebook site and informing the world about ISO/TC 211 work on Twitter.

In 2014, Serena Coetzee, Antony Cooper and Victoria Rautenbach were commissioned through BE at UP by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform to write Part C of the Guidelines of best practice for the acquisition, storage, maintenance and dissemination of fundamental geo-spatial datasets. Part C of the guidelines focus on standards for the acquisition, storage, maintenance and dissemination of fundamental geo-spatial datasets. The guidelines are part of the Mapping Africa for Africa initiative of the United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UN ECA), supported by the International Cartographic Association (ICA). Dr Derek Clarke, a CGIS Advisory Board Member, leads the initiative and is the editor of the guidelines. A draft of Part C was published as an ISO/TC 211 document to get comments from standards experts around the world. It was very well received by the community and they provided us with more than 300 comments. The final draft of Part C is available at sdistandards.icaci.org.

In another project through BE at UP, Serena Coetzee and Prof Julian Smit from the University of Cape Town were commissioned by the Secretariat of the National Planning Commission of South Africa to undertake background research to inform the setting up of the observatory mentioned in the National Development Plan (NDP). The NDP describes a 2030 vision for South Africa. Chapter 8 of the NDP (2012) deals with the transformation of human settlements and the national space economy. An observatory is proposed as one of the measures to develop capabilities for effective spatial decision-making and implementation. The final report with recommendations on how to set up such an observatory and how to link it to existing spatial data infrastructure initiatives in the country was published early in 2015.

We are also actively involved in working groups of two International Council for Science (ICSU) member bodies, namely the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and

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Remote Sensing (ISPRS). Antony Cooper is the Chair and Serena Coetzee the Vice-Chair of the Commission on Geoinformation Infrastructures and Standards of the ICA. Antony's term expires in August 2015 at the 16th General Assembly of the ICA, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. South Africa has nominated Serena as the new Chair, with the new name being the Commission on SDI and Standards. In collaboration with the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the Commission is organising pre-conference workshop for the 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) on Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015), to be hosted by IBGE in Rio de Janeiro, 20-21 August 2015.

The ICA Commission on Geoinformation Infrastructures and Standards has developed models of an SDI and the stakeholders in an SDI, which is being used by Kisco Sinvula for his PhD research.

The International Map Year (IMY), 2015-2016, is an initiative of the ICA that has been supported by the United Nations. To celebrate IMY, the ICA has produced an online book, The World of Maps (2014). For this, Serena Coetzee was invited to contribute the chapter on Volunteered Geographic Information.

Victoria Rautenbach is the current research secretary of the ISPRS working group (WG) II/6, Geographical Visualization and Virtual Reality. For the day-to-day operation of the WG, she is responsible for updating the website and maintaining a social media presence together with the other leadership of the WG. In 2014, the WG arranged a pre-conference workshop in conjunction with the Joint International Conference held in Toronto Canada in October 2014. The workshop entitled, Geodesign: Visualizing Cities – Envisioning Sustainable Urban Futures provided participants with an overview of the state-of-the-art visualization tools available for urban management and planning.

Finally, as part of her PhD research, Victoria Rautenbach visited the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) in Germay, where she was part of the g2lab and attended the Geomatik-Jahrestagung conference (26 – 28 March 2014). During her stay, she actively participated in their research meeting with fellow students and attended guest lectures. Victoria worked on a draft paper with Prof Schiewe (HCU), Prof Coetzee (UP) and Dr Arzu Çoltekin (University of Zurich) during her stay. The final paper was accepted for oral presentation at the International Cartographic Conference, to be held in August 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Victoria Rautenbach (centre) with Prof Jochen Schiewe (right) and colleagues from the HafenCity University in Hamburg,

Germany.

Project involvement in 2014:

Address System Analysis for International Address Rendering Standardization, for the South Korean Spatial Information Research Institute (SIRI). Background research to inform the setting up of a national observatory for spatial data assembly and analysis, for the Secretariat of the National Planning Commission, The Presidency of South Africa.

Content writing of a section on standards for best practice for the acquisition, storage, maintenance of fundamental geospatial datasets, for the Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform

Modelling a national health spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for Namibia, two-year bilateral project between South Africa and Namibia as part of the International Science and Technology Agreement between the two countries (concluded in March 2014). Survey of the demand for GISc skills in South Africa, for the NSIF, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform and Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA).

Survey of the geoinformation community of South Africa, for the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA).

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1.5 ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab Network

CGIS has been a member of the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab Network since 2012. The ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Lab Network was established in September 2011 through a Memorandum of Understanding between the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA). The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) joined the network in July 2014. At the time of writing (March 2015), 92 labs from all over the world were part of the network.

Locations of labs in the ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS network. Source: GeoForAll website, http://www.geoforall.org/locations/

We use open source software for geospatial and/or open data in our research and education, or contribute to the software and/or data through our research. The table below lists open source software used in education in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology.

Open source software used in Geoinformatics education at UP

Module Semester Open source and open data GMC 110, Cartography 1st QGIS

GIS 120, Informatics 2nd GeoDa, OpenStreetMap, QGIS GIS 310, GIS 5th QGIS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS

GIS 320, Spatial analysis 6th QGIS, SAGA, GeoDA GMT 320, Geoinformatics project 6th deegree, GeoServer, OpenLayers, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, QGIS *COS 787, Spatial databases 7th PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Rasdaman

GIS 706, Internet GIS 8th GeoServer, PostgreSQL, PostGIS * Jointly presented with the Department of Computer Science

As part of our open source initiative, Gavin Fleming from Afrispatial, a CGIS Advisory Board Member, presented a five-day course on ‘Spatial databases with PostGIS’ through CE at UP in June 2014. Serena Coetzee is currently involved in a special issue of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964) on ‘Open Geospatial Science and Applications’. Original research contributions on all aspects of open source geospatial software and its applications were invited in 2014 and are currently under review. The special issue aims to showcase the advancement of open geospatial science and applications by building upon the broader progress in open science, the synergies in the developments in open source geospatial software, open data, open standards, open hardware and open access to research publications. The call for papers is available at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/science-applications.

2. Internal platform at UP CGIS aims to be an internal platform at UP from where the excellence of UP individuals and teams involved in GISc research, education and training, professional development and community engagement is supported and strengthened. Much of this is accomplished through the UGM, but also through lecturing on graduate and postgraduate level. A first for 2014 was a TechCamp for high school learners, introducing them to geospatial technologies and related career opportunities.

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2.1 Unit for Geoinformation and Mapping (UGM)

The UGM, delivered as usual GIS and cartographic services, geospatial information and general cartographic advice to students and staff from various departments at UP. Database compilation, visualization and mapping, all in GIS, continued for internal and external clients. Yvette Bevis left UGM at the end of May 2014 and Petronella Tizora started as cartographer in 2015.

Within the university sphere, many departments, centres and institutes make use of the GIS and mapping skills of the UGM. Among these are the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, as well as departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Town and Regional Planning, Environmental Health (of the Faculty of Health Sciences), Consumer Science, Geology, Civil Engineering, Plant Sciences, Veterinary Sciences, Zoology and Entomology, Animal and Wildlife Sciences, Historical & Heritage Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology, the Centre for Environmental Studies, UP Natural Hazard Centre Africa and the UP Water Institute.

The UGM supports under- and postgraduate students by developing and updating step-by-step user-friendly manuals for some of the software products (e.g. ArcGIS, SuperCross for Census 2011 data). Students and staff use this software to search for geospatial data, to analyse and to visualise their research results. To inform students about UGM services, Ingrid Booysen and Yvette Bevis presented two lectures on ‘GIS software licences and Geoinformation for UP Personnel and students’ in February 2014. One was part of the First Semester CGIS seminar series and the other one was requested by the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planners. Aforementioned seminar was attended by approximately 50 people. Ingrid presented another lecture in the second semester to the GIS 120 and GIS 320 students ‘Where to find data for GIS’. UGM also contributed to the CE at UP ‘Programme in Introductory GIS’ by presenting the ‘Visualisation and Map making’ (IVIS) module in 2014.

Based on UGM’s interaction with students and staff, it is estimated that at least 800 students use GIS software in practical sessions of various modules. In addition, there are at least 450 GIS users among UP staff and postgraduate students, who mostly use GIS as a research tool in another discipline *(i.e. horizontal research). These statistics are based on the distribution of ArcGIS and ENVI licences; the actual number will be higher due to downloads of open source products directly from the Web without any interaction with the UGM.

UGM liaises, acquires (by contract) and provides access to geospatial information, such as cadastral, floodline data and stormwater channels and aerial photos from the City of Tshwane and satellite imagery from SANSA (South African Space Agency). Other datasets include Eskom’s categorized Spot Building Count 2012 which became available in June 2014 and environmental spatial data from SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute), the Department of Water Affairs and the Department of Environmental Affairs. Shapefiles are kept up to date on a server (FIRE\campus) accessible by any staff or student from any UP campus. Another data service provided by UGM is a PC with a SuperCross installation. SuperCross allows cross tabulations of all the parameters for Census 2011 (from StatsSA) can be created. The output, if correctly designed, can be linked directly to any administrative shapefile of South Africa in any GIS for portrayal and analysis. The SuperCross is also available to students an staff on the central FIRE\campus.

UGM acquired (with the aid of faculty funds) the Esri GIS and Exelis ENVI software for another year. Three thousand licenses were made available for students and staff to use both on and off campus. ArcGIS was installed on approximately 900 desktop computers (PCs), laptops and PCs in university laboratories. The nearly 100 free ArcGIS e-learning courses included in the annual license available to all UP staff and enrolled students are administered by the UGM. Students were enrolled for more than 600 e-learning courses in 2014 across various disciplines. The Centre for Wildlife Management (13 students) and the Centre for Environmental Studies (20 students) made completion of these ArcGIS virtual campus courses compulsory in their curricula – these are Honours and Masters students.

The UGM was and continues to be involved in the external GIS and related geospatial project for SANParks Kruger National Park on Geology and Geosites, GIS mapping for books, posters and exhibits. A scientific poster “Sustainable Geo-Eco Tourism in the Kruger National Park” by Viljoen, MJ, Strydom, V and Booysen, I, was delivered at the Savanna Science Network Meeting from 9-13 March 2014, Skukuza. Four workshops were held and two publications are to be finalised on this subject by the end of 2015.

An abstract (with Dr G du Rand of the Department of Consumer Science) for the 27th International Cartographic Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to be held in August 2015 was accepted for oral presentation. Yvette Bevis and Ingrid Booysen are also co-authors of an article to be published in an accredited journal. With the appointment of a full time cartographer in 2015, more can be planned and produced. The goal for 2015 is to participate more in international projects and conferences and to publish in accredited journals.

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A mentionable spatially related event was held here at the Department of GGM by Mr Kumar (former attaché of the Embassy of Nepal) on 24 April 2014. In less than 20 minutes Mr Kumar, in front of an audience, had to name every country and its dialling code from an on-screen blank World Map for a possible record in the Guinness Book of Records. Mr Kumar transferred interesting facts and photos of Nepal. DVDs and maps were distributed to the audience. A wall-photo of the famous Mt Everest (as seen in the photo) was presented to the department.

2.2 Graduate and postgraduate lecturing

‘Cross-lecturing’ between departments continues on under- and postgraduate level where students from one department and/or faculty enrol for modules in another. For example, undergraduate GIS modules presented by the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology Students are attended by students enrolled for degrees in the Faculties of Education, Humanities and Engineering, Built Environment & Information Technology, as well as students from ‘neighbouring’ departments in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. In turn, the curriculum for BSc Geoinformatics includes modules from the Faculties of Economic and Management Sciences, Law, Engineering, Built Environment & Information Technology, as well as a number of departments in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, such as Mathematics and Statistics.

The Honours module, COS 787, Spatial databases, is presented jointly between the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology. There is also collaboration on the COS 326, Database systems, module presented by the Department of Computer Science, for which Dr Coetzee presents an introduction to spatial databases.

A variety of GIS software products are used in under- and postgraduate teaching, some are procured, some are provided through a free academic license, while others are open source. Exposure to more than one product makes it possible for students to grasp concepts instead of only ‘pressing buttons’ in a tool.

Software products used in Geoinformatics teaching Module Semester Product

GMC 110, Cartography 1st QGIS GIS 120, nformatics 2nd AfriGIS GISlike, ArcGIS, Enterprise Architect, GeoDa, OpenStreetMap, QGIS

(Erdas and MapInfo from 2015) GGY 283, Introductory GIS (same as GIS 221)

3rd ArcGIS

GIS 220, Geographic data analysis 4th Microsoft Excel (R from 2015) GIS 221, GIS Introduction (same as GGY 283)

4th ArcGIS

GMA 220, Remote sensing 4th ENVI GIS 310, GIS 5th QGIS, PostgreSQL, PostGIS GMA 320, Remote sensing 5th ENVI, IDL, MATLAB

GMC 310, Geometrical and space geodesy

5th Microsoft Excel

GIS 320, Spatial analysis 6th GeoDA, QGIS, SAGA

GMT 320, Geoinformatics project 6th AfriGIS JavaScript API, Enterprise Architect, deegree, GeoServer, OpenLayers, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, QGIS

*COS 787, Spatial databases 7th PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Rasdaman GIS 705, Advanced geospatial data 7th Students may choose any tool to prepare diagrams, such as Microsoft Visio

or Enterprise Architect

GIS 704, Spatial statistics and geodesy

8th Microsoft Excel

GIS 706, Internet GIS 8th GeoServer, PostgreSQL, PostGIS

GMA 705, Advanced remote sensing

8th ENVI, IDL, MATLAB

* Jointly presented with the Department of Computer Science

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Finally, a highlight of every year is the Geoinformatics Project Day where final year Geoinformatics students exhibit their projects. Students were divided into groups and followed a project management process between July and November to complete a Geoinformatics project assigned to them. The project is an opportunity to apply a variety of knowledge and skills acquired during their undergraduate years.

GMT 320, Geoinformatics Project – Class of 2014

11 students exhibited three projects in 2014:

- GIS Heroes developed a web solution for the (fictional) South African Crime Detection (SACD) organization. The solution allows citizens to report crime incidents in the Web. These are analysed into hotspots in order to effectively and efficiently manage SACD’s resources.

- Chameleon Communique developed a crowd sourcing application for the Web to track the state of service delivery issues and monitor satisfaction levels in a municipal ward.

- Spatial solutions developed TransportShare, a web application with bus and taxi information for the City of Tshwane. Users can query the information, request routes and rate recent trips.

2.3 Student research seminars

Monthly CGIS research seminars continued in 2014 with the objective to exchange research information and provide opportunities for students to get experience in presenting. Seminar invitations are published campus-wide and mail invitations are sent to a list of industry contacts.

Date Program Research focus group 24 Feb GIS software licences and Geoinformation for UP Personnel and students

by Ingrid Booysen, UGM Unit for Geoinformation Mapping

10 Mar Evaluating the effect of meteorological parameters on the accuracy of Satelite/Lunar Laser Ranging (S/LLR) range measurements by Paul Mmtoni Barasa, Dept GGM Analysis of land use and land cover changes in Thabazimbi, Limpopo Province, using sahtellite data by Lisa Mbwia, Dept GGM

Space geodesy, earth and atmospheric observation

7 Apr Towards automatic generation of 3D map presentations by Sebastian Pasewaldt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Postdam

Forensic geography

12 May

Geovisualisation and Germany: Feedback from research visit to hamburg by Victoria Rautenbach, Dept GGM

Spatial data infrastructures

8 Aug

SDI evolution in the age of crowdsourcing and mobile technologies – implications for South Africa

by Serena Coetzee, Dept GGM

Spatial data infrastructures

19 Sept Reunion Island, ARCh_Net Internship program by Sean Cullen, Dept GGM

Image Ratioing of various indices using LandsatTM and Landsat8 by Lisa Nyadzua, Dept GGM

Space geodesy, earth and atmospheric observation

24 Oct Python scripting for Geoprocessing By Yvette Bevis, Esri South Africa

Spatial data infrastructures

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2.4 Geospatial Tech Camp for high school learners

A very successful Global Connections and Exchange: My Community, our Earth (MyCOE) Youth TechCamp http://www.aag.org/techcamps was hosted at UP from 14 – 22 July 2014. The program aims to provide opportunities for youth to learn more about online geotechnologies and how to apply them in service of their communities, while gaining a deeper understanding about different places and cultures of the world.

2014 MyCOE Youth TechCamp particants with their certificates at the final closing ceremony.

Thirty-nine learners between the age of 15 and 18 attended the camp, ten from the US and 29 from three different provinces in South Africa. Most of the learners have geography as a subject at school and this camp exposed them to the various career paths that they can pursue in the field and application of GIS. The week included practical hands-on sessions in computer labs, field trips (amongst others to the Cradle of Humankind), as well as inspiring talks by renowned scientists. Apart from the technical aspects of the camp, the US learners got to experience South African culture.

The 2014 TechCamps were conducted by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) www.aag.org with funding and support from the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Your Programs Division. In 2014, GCE MyCOE Youth TechCamps were held in South Africa, Bolivia and Panama.

The local organizers, EIS-Africa www.eis-africa.org and Afrispatial www.afrispatial.co.za, joined forces with CGIS and JuniorTukkie www.up.ac.za/juniortukkie to make the week a memorable experience. CGIS would like to thank and commend sponsors, students and staff who collaborated to make the event possible! We hope to build on this success in future.

Local organizers of the 2014 MyCOE Youth TechCamp at UP, from left to right: Prof Serena Coetzee (UP CGIS), Mr Gavin

Fleming (Afrispatial and CGIS Advisory Board Member), Ms Candida Manozzi (American Association of Geographers) Prof Marietjie Potgieter (Vice-Dean Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences), Ms Melissa Ford (US

Embassy), Mr Ryan Ingrassia (US Embassy), Ms Bridget Fleming (Afrispatial), Mr Sives Govender (EIS-Africa and CSIR), Ms Nekya Young (Association of American Geographers), Mr Lee Annamalai (CSIR).

Absent: Ms Marcela Zeballos (Association of American Geographers) and Petrus Lombard (UP JuniorTukkie).

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3. Partner to the geoinformation industry of South Africa CGIS aims to be a partner to the South African geoinformation industry in support of GISc research, education and training, professional development, community engagement. CGIS members are actively engaged in the South African geoinformation industry through the presentation of short courses, involvement in the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA), guest lectures by industry representatives and student visits to organizations in the geoinformation industry. We consider the interaction with the geoinformation industry as important, amongst others, because the Geoinformatics degrees offered by the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology were accredited in 2012 to comply with the academic requirements for professional registration with the South African Council for Professional and Technical Land Surveyors (PLATO).

3.1 CE at UP courses

Courses listed below were presented in 2014 through CE at UP.

Certificate Course in Introductory Geographic Information Systems Course leader: Sanet Eksteen Presenters: Erika Pretorius, Peter Schmitz, Sanet Eksteen, Yvette Bevis, Joos Esterhuizen Dates: 2 April – 8 October 2014

Certificate Course in Advanced Geographic Information Systems Course leader: Sanet Eksteen Presenters: Sanet Eksteen, Peter Schmitz, Erika Pretorius Dates: 1 March – 21 November 2014 Spatial databases with PostGIS Course leader: Serena Coetzee Presenter: Gavin Fleming Dates: 9-13 June 2014 Introduction to standards for geographic information Course leader: Serena Coetzee Presenters: Serena Coetzee, Antony Cooper Dates: 14-15 July 2014

GISc professional practice Course leader: Serena Coetzee Presenter: Serena Coetzee Dates: July – November 2014

The Basics of GIS Course leader: Sanet Eksteen Presenter: Sanet Eksteen Dates: 16 – 18 July 2014

3.2 Geo-information Society of South Africa (GISSA)

GISSA represents the geoinformation community of South Africa as a national, unified, representative body to promote and protect the interests of its members on all forums. The GISSA Gauteng Annual General Meeting (AGM) was hosted on campus on 14 March 2014. The meeting was attended by more than 100 delegates from the geoinformation industry.

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GISSA representatives

Students at the GISSA function

GISSA Gauteng again hosted a student function at the University of Pretoria. Around 50 students from various departments attended the function. S'lindi Mhlongo (Eskom), Mimi Chauke (Department of Rural Development and Land Reform), Stuart Martin (GeoTerraImage) and Mzi Shabangu (StatsSA) enlightened the students with their experiences in working in the GISc industry. They covered topics, such as job hunting, applying for bursaries and internships, PLATO registration and the sensitive issue of remuneration. CGIS encourages students to register with GISSA by paying 50% of their annual registration fees.

3.3 Guest lectures by industry representatives

As part of the module in advanced GIS theory, practice and applications (GIS 310), Sanet Eksteen arranged a number of guest lectures by speakers from industry at UP. The lectures give students the opportunity to meet people in the industry and to get updated on state-of-the-art GIS applications. Invitations were published campus-wide on the CGIS website, in the campus news, and on the student web. Invitations were also distributed to a CGIS mailing list, consisting mainly of GISc industry members. Since 2014, GISc professionals can collect CPD points for attending the guest lectures.

Guest Lecturer Date Topic

Quinton Bohr (Esri) 14 Feb Enterprise GIS

Nic Klopper (1map) 21 Feb Creating a national online GIS repository

Dr Peter Schmitz (CSIR) 28 Feb Election night forecasting

Tom Westendorp (TomTom) 14 Mar Real-time and historical data: The benefits for GIS and Traffic

Stuart Martin (GeoTerraImage) 27 Mar Professional Registration in GISc

Dr Johan Maritz (CSIR) 28 Mar Spatial data frameworks and the development of alternative data sources – two cases

Suben Moodley (African Bank) 9 May Work 2015: A GIS survival toolkit

Gavin Fleming (Afrispatial) A.1. 12 Jun

A.2. Why open source software and open data are good for the economy (and fun to use)

3.4 Industry visits by first year students

In 2014, 30+ students in GIS 120, Geoinformatics, visited the Pretoria Surveyor General’s Office and ITS Engineers (where two Geoinformatics alumni work), respectively. During the 90-minute visit at each organization, students received a presentation and tour of the GIS operations. The majority of these students are enrolled for degrees in Geoinformatics, Meteorology and Geology.

4. Research output CGIS aims to be a facilitator of UP GISc research collaborations, education and training and professional alliances within South Africa and abroad. In 2014, CGIS members were involved in projects and collaborative initiatives

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with colleagues and researchers from all over the world. Highlights are presented here and research output published in 2014 is listed with the names of CGIS authors in bold.

4.1 Conferences, workshops, meetings and visitors

Locations of CGIS visits and visitors in 2014

Research visit to G2lab, HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, January – March 2014 By Victoria Rautenbach

Regional network of skills on dynamic adaptation of ruminant production systems to a changing environment (ARChE_Net), University La Reunion, Reunion, February 2014 By Joel Botai

University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, 31 March 2014 By Serena Coetzee

Session of the Postal Operations Council, Universal Postal Union, Zürich, Switzerland, 1-3 April 2014 By Serena Coetzee

AnimalChange: Livestock climate change & food security, Madrid, Spain, 19 -20 May, 2014 By Joel Botai

38th Plenary week of ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics, Berlin, Germany, 02 - 06 June 2014 By Antony Cooper (Head of the South African delegation), Serena Coetzee and Victoria Rautenbach

AfricaGEO 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, 01 - 03 July 2014 By Dinao Tjia, Edward Kurwakumire, Fritz van der Merwe, Peter Schmitz, Sanet Eksteen, Serena Coetzee and Victoria Rautenbach.

Academy of Management Conference 2015, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1-5 August 2014 By Brendon Wolff-Piggott (CGIS Research Associate)

Workshop on economic effects of climate change, Kampala, Uganda, August 2014 Attended by Joel Botai

Research visit to CIRAD, La Reunion, 17 August – 11 September 2014 Attended by Sean Cullen

Research visit to UP, Pretoria, South Africa, 11 September – November 2014 By Cyprien Alexandre, PhD student from France

39th Plenary week of ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics, Shenzhen, China, 24 - 27 November 2014 By Antony Cooper (Head of the South African delegation), Serena Coetzee and Victoria Rautenbach

Symposium on Service-Oriented Mapping (SOMAP), Vienna, Austria, November 26 – 28 November 2014 By Lauren Hankel

4.2 Peer-reviewed journal articles

Botai C, Combrinck L, Botai OJ (2014). Investigating the effect of tide parameterization and gravity field models on SLR solutions, Acta Geodetica, 49(4), 503-515.

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Komen K, Olwoch J, Rautenbach H, Botai OJ, Adebayo A (2014). Long-Run Relative Importance of Temperature as the Main Driver to Malaria Transmission in Limpopo Province, South Africa: A Simple Econometric Approach, Ecohealth.

Coetzee S, Eksteen S and Roos A (2014). Results from a survey of the South African GISc community show who they are and what they do. South African Journal of Geomatics, 3(2):224-245.

Coetzee S, Rautenbach V and Heindrich du Plessis, accepted. Qualitative comparison of South Africa’s geomatics professional body’s academic model against a conceptual framework for SDI education and training, accepted in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Mayer D, Bohm J, Combrinck L, Botai OJ, Bohm S (2014). Importance of the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory for the VLBI network. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica, 49(2), pp. 313 - 325.

Munghemezulu C, Combrink L, Mayer D and Botai OJ (2014). Comparison of site velocities derived from collocated GPS, VLBI and SLR techniques at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (Comparison of site velocities), Journal of Geodetic Science, ISSN: 2081-9943, DOI: 10.2478/jogs-2014-002, 4(1), pp. 1-7.

Ramoelo A, Majozi N, Mathieu R, Jovanovic N, Nickless A, Dzikiti S (2014). Validation of Global Evapotranspiration Product (MOD16) using Flux Tower Data in the African Savanna, South Africa. Remote Sensing, 6 (8), pp. 7406 - 7423.

Tesfaye M, Botai OJ, Sivakumar V and Tsidu G (2014). Simulation of biomass burning aerosols mass distributions and their direct and semi-direct effects over South Africa using a regional climate model. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 125, pp. 177 - 195.

Tsela PL, Wessels KJ, Botai OJ, Archibald S, Swanepoel D, Steenkamp K, Frost P (2014). Validation of the Two Standard MODIS Satellite Burned-Area Products and an Empirically- Derived Merged Product in South Africa. Remote Sensing, 6, pp. 1275 - 1293.

4.3 Papers presented at refereed conferences

Hankel L, McFerren G and Coetzee S (2014). Distributed geoprocessing of streaming data for a 3D context aware visualization solution of a wildfire scenario, Symposium on Service-Oriented Mapping (SOMAP) 2014, Vienna, Austria, 26-28 November 2014.

Phaphana HM, Cooper AK and Wenhold FAM (2014). Determining the availability of, and access to, fresh fruit and vegetables in Arcadia and Eastwood, Pretoria. 10th International Conference of African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE 2014), Johannesburg, South Africa, 27-31 October 2014.

Rautenbach V, Coetzee S and Coltekin A (2014) Towards evaluating the map literacy of planners in 2D maps and 3D models in South Africa, AfricaGEO 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, 1–3 July 2014.

Schmitz PMU and Eksteen S (2014) The Effect of GIS Data Quality on Infrastructure Planning: School Accessibility in the City of Tshwane, South Africa, AfricaGEO 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, 1-3 July2014.

4.4 Chapters in books

Eksteen S and Coetzee S (2014) The State of GISc Education and SDI Implementation in the SADC Countries: A Comparative Study, In Cartography from Pole to Pole, edited by Manfred Buchroithner, Nikolas Prechtel and Dirk Burghardt Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-32617-2, pp. 471- 482.

Cooper AK, Coetzee SM Rapant P, Laurent D, Danko D, Iwaniak A, Peled A, Moellering H and Duren U (2014) Exploring the Impact of a Spatial Data Infrastructure on Value-Added Resellers and Vice Versa, In Cartography from Pole to Pole, edited by Manfred Buchroithner, Nikolas Prechtel and Dirk Burghardt Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-32617-2 , pp. 395 - 404.

Sinvula K, Coetzee S, Coooer AK, Nangolo E, Owusu-Banahene W, Rautenbach V, Hipondoka M (2014) Contextual ICA Stakeholder Model Approach for the Namibian Spatial Data Infrastructure (NamSDI). In Cartography from Pole to Pole, edited by Manfred Buchroithner, Nikolas Prechtel and Dirk Burghardt Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-32617-2, pp. 381 – 394.

4.5 Non-refereed output

Coetzee S (2014). ISO 19160, Addressing - Suite of standards. Standards Board Meeting, Universal Postal Union (UPU) Postal Operations Council, Berne, Switzerland, 1 April 2014.

Coetzee S (2014). Using geographic information to its full potential – challenges and opportunities. Research Colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, 31 March 2014.

Coetzee S (2014). Implementation guidelines for geo-spatial standards by the Mapping Africa for Africa (MAfA), ISO/TC 211 Standards in Action Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 4 June 2014.

Coetzee S (2014). Volunteered Geographic Information. In: World of Maps, edited by Ferjan Ormeling and Bengt Rystedt. International Cartographic Association. Available at http://internationalmapyear.org/the-world-of-maps-book/. 11 pages.

Coetzee S, Cooper AK and Rautenbach V (draft). Part C: Standards for fundamental geo-spatial datasets (draft). In: Clarke D (Ed.), Guidelines of best practice for the acquisition, storage, maintenance and dissemination of fundamental geo-spatial datasets, to be published by the Mapping Africa for Africa initiative.

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Coetzee S and Smit J (2014). Background research to inform the setting up of the observatory proposed in Chapter 8 of the National Development Plan. Draft Research Report for the Secretariat of the National Planning Commission of South Africa.

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics, and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) (2014). A Guide to the Role of Standards in Geospatial Information Management. Background document for the fourth session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) in New York, USA, August 2014. (Serena Coetzee is a contributing author).

Kurwakumire E, Coetzee S, Schmitz PMU and Tjia DE (2014). Supply Chain Mapping for Visualising the SDI in South Africa: A Case of Land Administration Data. AfricaGEO 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, 1–3 July 2014.

van der Merwe F and Luus N (2014) Error propagation of stockpile volumetric calculations derived from aerial LiDAR data, AfricaGEO 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, 1- 3 July 2014.

4.6 Theses, dissertations and Honours reports

The titles of PhD theses, Masters dissertations and Honours projects of students graduating in 2014 are listed below. Their supervisors were from the Departments of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (GGM), Computer Science, the UP Natural Hazard Centre Africa and from the CSIR, HartRAO and SANSA.

Doctoral thesis

Freddy Milambo (2014) Impact of climate change on the distribution of tomato pests in the Limpopo province of South Africa. PhD Environment and Society, supervised by Joel Botai (GGM) and Jane Olwoch (SANSA)

Masters dissertations Dinao Tjia (2014). Towards a land administration data model (LADM) profile for South Africa. MSc Geoinformatics

dissertation, supervised by Serena Coetzee (GGM).

Cilence Munghemezulu (2014). Determination of Geodetic velocity field parameters for the African tectonic plate using the technique of Global Navigation satellite Systems. MSc Geoinformatics, supervised by Joel Botai (GGM) and Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO)

Honours reports

Kaylin Barber (2014). Identifying socio-political vulnerable areas and developing a socio-political vulnerability index for South Africa. Honours project report, supervised by Alize le Roux (CSIR).

Michelle Bester (2014). LIDAR-based analysis of vegetation encroaching on Eskom’s Apollo-Cahora Bassa transmission line. Honours project report, supervised by Philemon Tsela (GGM) and Renaud Mathieu (CSIR).

Jermina Boshego (2014). Assessment of the accuracy of global scale forest cover maps in the Southern African Lowveld Savanna ecosystem: validation of performance. Honours project report, supervised by Renaud Matthieu (CSIR).

Paul dos Santos (2014). Simulating the growth of backyard shack formation in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Honours project report, supervised by Alize le Roux (CSIR).

Izak du Plessis (2014). Spatial assessment of the conditions that induce seismic activity in the Witwatersrand. Honours project report, supervised by Serena Coetzee (GGM), Andrzej Kijko (UP Natural Hazard Centre Africa) and Ansie Smit (UP Natural Hazard Centre Africa).

Melissa Hankel (2014). Evaluating the influence of street name changes on wayfinding techniques using 2D maps. Honours project report, supervised by Victoria Rautenbach (GGM).

Keagen Liebenberg (2014). Spatial risk assessment for an earthquake scenario in Johannesburg. Honours project report, supervised by Serena Coetzee (GGM), Andrzej Kijko (UP Natural Hazard Centre Africa) and Ansie Smit(UP Natural Hazard Centre Africa).

Sibusiso Xolani Lubisi (2014). Investigating the availability of healthy and varied food in the Hatfield and Hillcrest student areas. Honours project report, supervised by Antony Cooper (CSIR).

Nokuthutha Mahlangu (2014). Exploring the characteristics of food availability in Mamelodi West. Honours project report, supervised by Peter Schmitz (CSIR).

Lindelwa Manyatsi (2014). Assessing the physical and social vulnerability to flooding of the City of Tshwane. Honours project report, supervised by Serena Coetzee (GGM) and Coleen Vogel (GGM).

Zinhle Mashaba (2014). Development of a Global Navigation Satellite Systems data management system at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory. Honours project report, supervised by Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO) and Joel Botai (GGM).

Teboho Mokono (2014). Development of a seasonal high intensity wildfire risk map and database of the Highveld grassland and Western Cape fynbos area of South Africa. Honours project report, supervised by Graeme McFerren (CSIR).

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Jea Munda (2014). Characterising field reflectance spectra measurements of the Ground Control Points (GCPs) across Tshwane metropolitan. Honours project report, supervised by Joel Botai (GGM).

Tilly Phahle (2014). Application of remotely sensed data for drought monitoring: A case study in the North West province, South Africa. Honours project repor,t supervised by Joel Botai (GGM).

Nyeleti Shivambu (2014). Towards developing a “liveability index” for the greater City of Tshwane. Neighborhood habitability score. Honours project report, supervised by Sanet Eksteen (GGM).

Bartho Vogel (2014). Crop yield forecasting based on multi-temporal Landsat imagery on selected farm positions in Newcastle, South Africa. Honours project report, supervised by Philemon Tsela (GGM).

5. Funding There were again two main sources of funding from which CGIS day-to-day operations were covered in 2014: an annual budget allocation from the faculty and profit allocations from CE at UP courses.

Research activities and travel were supported by grants from the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Armscor (via a funding mechanism through the CSIR); the Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform; the Department of Science and Technology (DST); the European Union; the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA); the National Research Foundation (NRF); the Secretariat of the National Planning Commission in the Presidency of South Africa; the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS); and the South Korean Spatial Information Research Institute (SIRI).

Geoinformatics student prizes were sponsored by AfriGIS, Eskom and the South African National Space Agency (SANSA).

The time spent on CGIS activities by the extraordinary lecturers was funded by their employers, the CSIR and HartRAO. CSIR and HartRAO also support various under- and postgraduate students with bursaries, internships and/or studentships.

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Annex A: Constitution of the Centre for Geoinformation Science (CGIS)

University of Pretoria

Constitution

Centre for Geoinformation Science (CGIS)

Article 1 – Definition of Terms

a) Advisory Board - As in Article 4 b) CGIS - Centre for Geoinformation Science c) CGIS Director - Director of the CGIS, as in Article 6 d) Dean - Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences e) Department - Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology f) GISc - Geographic Information Science (GISc) g) HOD - Head of the Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology h) Management Committee - As in Article 5 i) Student representative - As in Article 5 j) UP - University of Pretoria

Article 2 – Vision

In its Vision the UP CGIS strives to be:

• An internal platform at UP from where the excellence of UP individuals and teams involved in GISc research, education and training, professional development and community engagement is supported and strengthened.

• A facilitator of UP GISc research collaborations, education and training and professional alliances within South Africa and abroad.

• A partner to the South African geoinformation industry in support of GISc research, education and training, professional development, community engagement.

Article 3 – Mission

The UP CGIS aims to achieve theVision statements by the following Mission actions:

• Engaging in research, education and training, professional development, community engagement and capacity building, in line with the overall strategy of UP.

• Obtaining funding for GISc research, education and training, professional development and community engagement by establishing new partnerships and alliances, as well as strengthening those already in existence.

• Creating high-level human resource capacity by involving students in GISc research, education and training, professional development and community engagement projects.

• Transferring knowledge and expertise through conferences, seminars, training, training events (e.g. workshops and short courses), publications and other appropriate avenues.

• Communicating and coordinating with other UP departments on GISc research, education and training, professional development and community engagement.

• Collaborating with other UP departments, universities and research institutes on GISc research, education and training, professional development and community engagement.

Article 4 – Advisory Board

• The Advisory Board is responsible for o providing strategic direction and advice regarding marketing, as well as the research, education

and training, professional development, community engagement and capacity building in CGIS; o giving advice on operational decisions; o reviewing the annual budget; and o reviewing the realization of the vision and the execution of the mission of the UP CGIS.

• The Dean is the Chairperson of the Advisory Board. … continues

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• The Advisory Board consists of the Dean, HOD, the UP CGIS Director (ex officio), the heads of collaborating departments, representatives of key stakeholders as identified from time to time by the CGIS Director in consultation with the Chairperson.

• The Advisory Board meets at least once a year.

Article 5 – Management Committee

• The Management Committee consists of the CGIS Director; selected members of the Department and the Department’s Unit for Cartography; a student representative as appointed by the CGIS Director; and one member per collaborating department.

• The Management Committee is responsible for: o coordinating CGIS research, education and training, professional development and community

engagement activities; o evaluating, and making inputs into, the strategic plan of the CGIS; o evaluating, and making inputs into, the business plan of the CGIS; o identifying opportunities to further the vision, mission of the CGIS.

• The CGIS Director is the Chairperson of the Management Committee. • The Management Committee meets at least once every six months. • A quorum for the Management Committee is half of the members plus one.

Article 6 – Appointment, powers, functions and duties of the CGIS Director

The CGIS Director is appointed in terms of prevailing regulations of the University for the appointment of Directors.

• The CGIS Director is responsible for o preparing the annual strategic plan of the CGIS; o preparing the annual business plan of the CGIS; o preparing the annual financial report of the CGIS; o organising meetings as provided for in this Constitution; o marketing the CGIS outside and within UP; o fundraising for the CGIS; o initiating discussions with potential donors and funders; o financial and budget management; o information management; and o ensuring the realisation of the research, education and training, professional development

activities and community engagement mandate of the CGIS. • The CGIS Director reports to the Dean.

Article 7 – Duties of the Department

The Department will provide

• administrative support for meetings as provided in this Constitution; and • administrative support for the operational and financial management of the CGIS.

Article 8 – Approval and amendments

The Senate Committee for Research of the University of Pretoria is responsible for the

approval of this Constitution and any amendment thereof.

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