Conference Sessions
Aerial and Terrestrial Laser Scanning
- 3D Airborne Data Acquisition from Different Platforms Using a Wide Range of Airborne Sensors
- Using Databases for 3D Data Management – From Point Cloud to City Model
- Design and creation of a 3D virtual tour of the World Heritage Site of Petra, Jordan
- Simplification Algorithm for Airborne Point Clouds
Cadastral theory and modelling
Cadastre & Land Administration
Data Management
Engineering Surveying; LIDAR
- Surface displacement monitoring: using satellite InSAR for mining and infrastructure planning
- Investigation into Various Factors Influencing the Achievable Accuracy of Kinematic GNSS Height Observations for Road Surveys
- Error propagation of stockpile volumetric calculations derived from aerial LiDAR data
- LiDAR Data Management and Exploitation
Geodesy
Geomatics for Africa
- Agriculture as a tool in African development (Nigeria)
- African small towns: Assessing the changing environment due to urban growth
- Improving Service Delivery in Africa through GIS
- Governance in Land Administration Systems: a comparative analysis of the former (LSPP) and current (LAA) land administration systems of Lesotho
Geomatics Higher Education
Geomatics in Mining
GIS Aplications
- Validating the Accuracy of a GIS-Based Accessibility Analysis to Determine Public Primary Health Care Demand in Metropolitan Areas
- The Effect of GIS Data Quality on Infrastructure Planning: School Accessibility in the City of Tshwane, South Africa
- GWIMS: a FOSS based water infrastructure management tool for the City of Gweru, Zimbabwe
- Low-Cost GIS for Today’s GIS Professionals
GIS for spatial analysis
GISc, mapping and cartography
GNSS and Geodesy
- The efficiency and effectiveness of the VRS technology as a densification to the RTK – Single Base technique for GPS/GNSS surveys in South Africa
- A comprehensive satellite constellation for land administration assessment and monitoring
- TRIGNET, South Africa’s GNSS base station network: past, present and future
- The application of a new transportable and robust radiation measuring system that conducts in situ and real time radio-element concentration measurements.
Innovations in Education
Integrated mapping solutions
Land Management in Africa
Land reform and communal land issues
Land reform and land tenure
Laser Scanning and 3D modelling
Open Source GISc
- Assessing the Quality of OpenStreetMap Data in South Africa in Reference to National Mapping Standards
- Open Source Use Case: Preparing Electricity Supply Area information for National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)
- OSGeo Live: Open Source GIS software for Land Reform and Developing Geomatics in Africa
Photogrammetry
- A Pragmatic Approach for Lens Distortion Correction from a Fictitious Image
- Determination of Minimum Sun Angle for Digital Aerial Image Acquisition
- Real time flood inundation modelling for Midnapore-Kharagpur Development Authority (Mkda) planning region of West Medinipur District, West Bengal, India
Professional Organisation/Standards
Remote Sensing
- The Use Of MODIS Time Series Data To Map Chl_a and CDOM Variability in Lake Victoria
- Identification of Optimal Field Spectral Measurements Wavebands for Discriminating among Spatial Features in support of Mapping Using Hyper-spectral Imagery
- Developing a land cover monitoring system for South Africa
- The Development of the South African National Land Cover Mapping Program: Progress and Challenges
- Assessment of SPOT 6 imagery for mapping the invasive alien plant species Pinus spp. in a mountainous area of the Western Cape
- Contribution of Earth Observation to emerging environmental challenges in Africa
- The development of a method for semi-automatic classification of built-up areas from aerial imagery
- Evaluating the performance of Pixel-based vs. Object-based classifiers for Extracting High Resolution Land cover product from SPOT 6 imagery
- Development of a new South African land-cover dataset using automated mapping techniques
- Assessing the Accuracy of Eskom Geospatial Data: Case study of the 22KV electrical line in the Paynes Farm, Qunu, Eastern Cape
Spatial Data Infrastructures
- Evaluating National Spatial Data Infrastructure readiness for Zimbabwe
- Supply Chain Mapping for Visualising the SDI in South Africa: A Case of Land Administration Data
- Ogun State, Nigeria: An SDI and Land Administration System built with FOSS
- An inside look at processes and data content at the NGI since the inception of the datamodel project
Spatial Statistical Data management
Technological Innovations
Web GIS
- Multi-disciplinary City Management through Web-Based GIS
- An Integrated Web Mapping Solution to assess the effect of Sea Level Rise on the Northern Coast of EGYPT – EGSLR
- Enabling distributed expert input together with centralized data management using a WebGIS-based approach for the implementation of a National Address Register Information System in Kosovo
- GIS mapping and Analysis for informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town: A case study of Monwabisi Park
YSN workshop on Education in Africa