Dear all, attached the updated schedule for the Honours presentations in Geoinformatics. Regards, Serena Student Supervisor Title 7:30 Arrival, set-up, coffee 8:00 Bartho Vogel Philemon Tsela Crop yield forecasting based on multi-temporal Landsat imagery on a selected farm portion in Newcastle, South Africa 8:20 Phillip Mogaleamalle Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee Towards a harmonized symbol set for land use classes – A South African study accommodating visual impairment 8:40 Jea Munda Joel Botai Characterising field reflectance spectra measurements of the Ground Control Points (GCPs) across Tshwane metropolitan 9:00 Melissa Hankel Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee Evaluating the influence of street name changes on wayfinding techniques using 2D maps 9:20 Break 9:40 Keagen Liebenberg Serena Coetzee, Andrzej Kijko, Ansie Smit Spatial risk assessment for an earthquake scenario in Johannesburg 10:00 Tilly Phahle Joel Botai Application of remotely sensed data for drought monitoring: A case study in the North West province, South Africa 10:20 Izak du Plessis Serena Coetzee, Andrzej Kijko, Ansie Smit Spatial assessment of the conditions that induce seismic activity in the Witwatersrand 10:40 Break 11:00 Lindelwa Manyatsi Serena Coetzee, Coleen Vogel Assessing the physical and social vulnerability to flooding of the City of Tshwane 11:20 Teboho Mokono Graeme McFerren Development of a seasonal high intensity wildfire risk map and database of the Highveld grassland and Western Cape fynbos area of South Africa 11:40 Zinhle Mashaba Ludwig Combrinck, Joel Botai Development of a Global Navigation Satellite Systems data management system at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory 12:00 Lunch 12:20 Jermina Boshego Renaud Mathieu Assessment of the accuracy of global scale forest cover maps in the Southern African Lowveld Savanna ecosystem: validation of performance 12:40 Nokuthutha Mahlangu Peter Schmitz Exploring the characteristics of food accessibility in Mamelodi West 13:00 Sibusiso Xolani Lubisi Antony Cooper Investigating the availability and accessibility of healthy and varied food in the Hatfield and Hillcrest student areas 13:20 Michelle Bester Philemon Tsela, Renaud Mathieu LIDAR-based analysis of vegetation encroaching on Eskom’s Apollo-Cahora Bassa transmission line 13:40 Break 14:00 Kaylin Barber Alize le Roux Identifying socio-political vulnerable areas and developing a socio-political vulnerability index for South Africa 14:20 Nyeleti Shivambu Sanet Eksteen Neighborhood habitability score 14:40 Paul dos Santos Alize le Roux Simulating the growth of backyard shack formation in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality 15:00 – 17:00 Assignment of final marks by supervisors and external examiner (Geography 3-8) -- Serena Coetzee Geography Building 3-5 Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa email: serena.coetzee@xxxxxxxx Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385 On Oct 16, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear all, the final Honours project presentations of the BSc (Hons) Geoinformatics students will take place on Thursday, 6 November in Geography 1-2. Below and attached is the schedule. You are welcome to join us for one or more of the sessions. Student Supervisor Title 7:30 Arrival, set-up, coffee 8:20 Thabo Mosiane Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee The 3D display of servitudes in South Africa 8:40 Bartho Vogel Philemon Tsela Crop yield forecasting based on multi-temporal Landsat imagery on selected farm portsions in Newcastle, South Africa 9:00 Phillip Mogaleamalle Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee Towards a harmonized symbol set for land use classes – A South African study accommodating visual impairment 9:20 Break 9:40 Jermina Boshego Renaud Mathieu Assessment of the accuracy of global scale forest cover maps in the Southern African Lowveld Savanna ecosystem: validation of performance 10:00 Lindelwa Manyatsi Serena Coetzee, Coleen Vogel Assessing the physical and social vulnerability to flooding of the City of Tshwane 10:20 Tilly Phahle Joel Botai Application of remotely sensed data for drought monitoring: A case study in the North West province, South Africa 10:40 Michelle Bester Philemon Tsela, Renaud Mathieu LIDAR-based analysis of vegetation encroaching on Eskom’s Apollo-Cahora Bassa transmission line 11:00 Break 11:20 Jea Munda Joel Botai Characterising field reflectance spectra measurements of the Ground Control Points (GCPs) across Tshwane metropolitan 11:40 Melissa Hankel Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee Evaluating the influence of street name changes on wayfinding techniques using 2D maps 12:00 Teboho Mokono Graeme McFerren Development of a seasonal high intensity wildfire risk map and database of the Highveld grassland and Western Cape fynbos area of South Africa 12:20 Zinhle Mashaba Ludwig Combrinck, Joel Botai Development of a Global Navigation Satellite Systems data management system at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory 12:40 Lunch 13:00 Keagen Liebenberg Serena Coetzee, Andrzej Kijko, Ansie Smit Spatial risk assessment for an earthquake scenario in Johannesburg 13:20 Nokuthutha Mahlangu Peter Schmitz Exploring the characteristics of food availability in Mamelodi West 13:40 Sibusiso Xolani Lubisi Antony Cooper Investigating the availability of healthy and varied food in the Hatfield and Hillcrest student areas 14:00 Izak du Plessis Serena Coetzee, Andrzej Kijko, Ansie Smit Spatial assessment of the conditions that induce seismic activity in the Witwatersrand 14:20 Break 14:40 Kaylin Barber Alize le Roux Identifying socio-political vulnerable areas and developing a socio-political vulnerability index for South Africa 15:00 Nyeleti Shivambu Sanet Eksteen Neighborhood habitability score 15:20 Paul dos Santos Alize le Roux Simulating the growth of backyard shack formation in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality 15:40 – 17:00 Assignment of final marks by supervisors and external examiner (Geography 3-8) <2014_UNI792_Schedule_Presentation_20141106_V2.pdf> Regards, -- Serena Coetzee Geography Building 3-5 Centre for Geoinformation Science, Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa email: serena.coetzee@xxxxxxxx Web: www.up.ac.za/cgis Mobile: +27 82 464 4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823 · Fax: +27 12 420 6385