South Africa

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and Democratic Republic of Congo National Remote Sensing Centre (DRC NRSC/CNT) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the 2023 GEO-Ministerial Summit in Cape Town to enhance collaborative efforts in implementing scientific and technological projects and programmes. The agreement underscores a shared commitment to promote mutual socio-economic ...

Over the next few weeks, NASA aircraft will fly over South Africa’s Greater Cape Floristic Region and collect ultraviolet, visual, thermal and other imagery of its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. These preliminary images will be publicly available and posted online here within hours of the aircraft landing each day. Combined with satellite imagery and field ...

According to a report by Sputnik, Yuri Borisov, the Director-General of the Russian State Space Corporation, proposed that the South African Space Agency (SANSA) consider the deployment of a Russian data-receiving station on a South African territory that would receive information from Russian and foreign Earth observation satellites, during the BRICS meeting in South Africa ...

On Wednesday (31 May) the Government of the landlocked kingdom of around 2 million people in southern Africa launched a GIS (geospatial information systems) platform, facilitated by the World Food Programme (WFP) that could be a game-changer for the country on a number of fronts, not least in training and providing resources for up to ...

Researchers at the University of Pretoria have found that the amount of rainfall in certain parts of South Africa has increased or become more extreme over the past 50 years or so. These investigations were part of a study led by Charlotte McBride of the South African Weather Service and a PhD candidate in UP’s ...

On 11 September 2022, a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, failed in the town of Jagersfontein in the Free State province of South Africa. In the failure, one person was killed and multiple homes destroyed. Tailings are the finely ground leftovers that remain after valuable metals are removed from rock ...

Cape Town, South Africa’s second wealthiest city, is piloting a new plan for the 146,000 households in its informal settlements: QR-coding their homes. According to Booi, residents will be able to scan their QR codes and send them to the city via WhatsApp for responses to issues like blocked drains and flooding. Booi also said ...