Posted on May 26, 2025
Second-year students recently demonstrated the power of digital storytelling through ArcGIS StoryMaps
Posted on May 14, 2025
The winter rainfall region and south coastal regions may experience below normal rainfall totals
Posted on April 22, 2025
Corienne Erasmus, who is currently enrolled in our BScHons Geoinformatic programme, has been selected to join SEAmester VIII. She will join the other successful applicants aboard the SA Aghulas II on 17 June, and return to Cape Town on 27 June. This year's selection process was highly...
Posted on April 22, 2025
Joshua Pretorius, an MSc candidate specialising in Geoinformatics at the University of Pretoria, recently attended the ISPRS Geospatial Week (GSW) 2025, held from 6–11 April in Dubai, UAE.
Posted on April 16, 2025
The forecast of this month continues to be for above normal rainfall conditions
Posted on April 14, 2025
Prof Gregory Breetzke was a panel speaker at the inaugural Policing Summit held at Emperor's Palace in Johannesburg from 8-10 April. Roughly 500 delegates attended the Summit including President Cyril Ramaphosa (who was the keynote speaker), the Minister of Police, JCPS Ministers, senior SAPS...
Posted on April 08, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Mulisa Mudau, an MSc student in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, successfully participated in the 5th Big Data Africa School (BDAS), hosted by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) in Cape Town from 10 to 15 March 2025....
Posted on March 17, 2025
Scout Yatt, currently enrolled on the BSc Hons Geoinformatics programme, is the recipient of the annual CONSAS award for the BSc Geoinformatics graduate class of 2024. The CONSAS Foundation awards an award to the best student in Geomatics at every university, offering a Geomatics programme...
Posted on January 23, 2025
Should young African scientists take a more active role in reviewing important climate assessment reports as those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? These reports inform global environmental policies and undergo global peer review. A recent study highlights that...
Posted on January 16, 2025
In the absence of a strong “signal” from the Pacific Ocean (at best a weak La Niña event), the predicted probabilities of above normal rainfall totals over the summer rainfall region are not very high.
Posted on November 28, 2024
On 18–19 November 2024, three BSocSci Honours students in Geography and Environmental Sciences attended and presented their final research at the International Student Symposium on the Sustainable Development Goals
Posted on October 28, 2024
Tsholalang Rammopo was awarded the prestigious 2024 SSAG Master's Bronze Medal for his MSc research entitled "The characteristics of Rossby wave packets in the South African domain". The Bronze Medal is awarded to the best geography MSc completed by research dissertation within a given year in...
Posted on October 27, 2024
University of Pretoria (UP) researchers, in collaboration with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have developed innovative maps to assist maize farmers in Gauteng with precision weeding. These maps, created from Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite images, distinguish between...
Posted on October 25, 2024
On Thursday, 24 October, the GGY 361 students undertook a field trip to Hydromulch, a slope stabilisation and soil rehabilitation company located in Johannesburg. Here the group was led by Mr. Carl Noffke, who first explained the applications of various soil erosion mitigation measures. The group...
Posted on October 24, 2024
On September 17, 2024, the UP YouthMappers from the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics, and Meteorology hosted a dynamic training session in partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA). Led by Mpho Sadiki, an Earth Observation Data Scientist at DEA, this hands-on session introduced students...
Posted on October 23, 2024
On Thursday, 17 October, the GGY 361 and GGY 363 groups visited the iThemba laboratories in Johannesburg to learn more about radiocarbon dating. The group was guided by Dr Stephan Woodborne, the Senior Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Scientist at iThemba LABS (Laboratories for Accelerator-Based...
Posted on October 17, 2024
SANParks-hosted GRIN (Garden Route Interface Network) meeting in Knysna
Posted on October 14, 2024
Above-normal mean maximum temperatures over the larger region are highly likely during spring.
Posted on October 11, 2024
Nkosingizwile Ndlovu, studying toward her MSc Geoinformatics, and Dihan Calitz, studying towards his BSHons Geoinformatics degree, both attended the SSAG Student Conference at North West University. The theme of this year's conference was 30 Years of Change and Beyond: Geography, Democracy,...
Posted on October 09, 2024
In a first for precision agriculture, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers, in association with collaborators from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have produced maps of smallholder farms in Gauteng that highlight maize plants in green and weeds in red. The maps were...
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