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  • Latest seasonal forecast (October) available

    Posted on October 09, 2018

    The latest seasonal forecast is available. What is predicted? Dry conditions over larger parts of Namibia with rainfall expectations remaining favourable over the eastern parts. A weak El Niño is predicted, with ENSO predicted to be neutral by early 2019.

  • Joining the global mapathon to help end FGM

    Posted on October 06, 2018

    CGIS and St John's joins groups in over 60 countries to map areas affected by FGM.

  • Developing a spatial viewer for pgAdmin4 thought Google Summer of Code

    Posted on September 18, 2018

    pgAdmin4 v3.3 released this week comes with a PostGIS geometry viewer.

  • Celebrating South Africa's Polar Heritage

    Posted on September 17, 2018

    Join the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology and the South African Association of Polar Early Career Scientist (APECSSA) this week in celebrating South African polar research, all under the theme 'South of Africa: SubZero Summers'

  • Reddford House school visit

    Posted on September 14, 2018

    Seven scholars and three teachers from Reddford House visited the Department on 13 September, where they where given some hands-on experience with a GIS and remote sensing applications.

  • New short course in remote sensing

    Posted on September 14, 2018

    Mr Philemon Tsele will be leading a short course in remote sensing (Introductory Course in Remote Sensing: Physical Principles and Digital Image Processing) from 14-16 November. More information on the course can be obtained from the University of Pretoria Enterprises website.

  • Seasonal forecast - September

    Posted on September 11, 2018

    The latest seasonal forecast is now available. Have a look at it through the link here: https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/106/ZP_Resources/WillemLandman/seasonal_forecast_worx_sep2018.zp161888.pdf.

  • GGY718 Geomorphology Honours field trip

    Posted on August 23, 2018

    Nine Honours students from the Department recently went to Swaziland for a four day applied geomorphology field trip led by Prof Heinz Beckendal and Andre Theron. The trip exposed students to a wide variety of landscapes and processes and provided hands on experience with geomorphic research in...

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