On 30 August 2018, The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) and EE Publishers hosted the SABS Electro-technical Sector Stakeholder Workshop to discuss reinvestment in and the way forward for the SABS high-voltage national electrical test facility (NETFA) in Midrand, Gauteng. In his welcome address, EE Publishers MD Chris Yelland said one of the workshop’s […]
. On 30 August 2018, the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) in association with EE Publishers hosted the SABS Electro-Technical Sector Stakeholder Workshop and NETFA Site Tour at St. George’s Hotel, Pretoria, to establish collaboration between the SABS and the electro-technical sector, with the aim of building capacity for testing in order to meet […]
The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA) welcomes the long-awaited draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) based on rational energy planning which provides a solid foundation to a sustainable future. The IRP was finally approved by parliament on 22 August 2018 and energy minister Jeff Radebe released the plan for public review and commentary five days […]
The Earth Observation Discoveries Day, which took place at The Innovation Hub in Pretoria on 31 July 2018, exposed the local earth observation and geospatial community to the possibilities of working with earth observation big data in a cloud computing environment. The South African Space Agency (SANSA) and earth observation data provider, DigitalGlobe, jointly hosted […]
Product compliance has become a highly controversial issue to manufacturers and importers alike, with unsustainable and unachievable requirements for proof of compliance and suppliers subjected to unfair trading. The objectives of compulsory specifications are to protect end-users, property and the environment against unsafe products while ensuring fair trade. In addition to the primary objective of […]
Global geospatial industry leaders formed the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC). The announcement was made by Jack Dangermond, chairman of WGIC and Esri founder and president, on 1 August 2018 at the eighth session of the UN-GGIM (United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management) held in New York. WGIC is founded by a group of 21 […]
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are rapidly changing the face of the conservation industry. They have the potential to revolutionise conservation and spatial ecology. At the core of conservation is the monitoring of species populations and their habitats. Traditional approaches to collecting species populations and habitats data may be resource intensive, potentially inaccurate, difficult […]
Commercial drone operators cry foul as drone light show sidesteps Part 101 commercial drone regulation. As part of its rebranding exercise, Absa partnered with Intel’s Drone Team for a drone light show above the Johannesburg CBD to display the bank’s new logo. The orchestrated 300-drone performance in July left the audience in awe, but drew […]
To locate individual burial plots with confidence, even when they are covered by trees and plants, as well as plan future burial plot use and manage the site, surveyors were tasked to create an accurate, electronic map of a burial park. Since the 1990s, the concept of woodland burial parks has become increasingly popular. As […]
Following the Gauteng City Region Observatory’s (GCRO) earlier multidimensional poverty map based on 2013 data, this article presents an update based on Quality of Life Survey IV (2015/16) survey data to show how a multidimensional poverty map of the Gauteng City Region was created. Poverty is often measured in terms of income. An alternative approach […]
