A warm welcome to Hanu Mostert

01/07/2021

We are happy to announce that Hanu Mostert will be joining the GeoSmart Space team! Hanu, a Stellenbosch University honours graduate and current master's student, will be…

Climate Smart Agriculture

14/08/2021

We are pleased to announce that Geosmart, in partnership with TerraClim, Stellenbosch University, METOS SA and PESSL Instruments (Austria), has been successful in its bid…

Comparison: DEM Products

14/09/2022

In the past few years we've made significant progress in improving our Digital Elevation Model (DEM) products. Pictured on the left (see below), we see…

Comparison: Potash Ponds

27/07/2022

These potash ponds are found in Moab, a town in Utah, USA. The pools facilitate the evaporation process that produce potassium chloride (a.k.a. potash). Water…

DEM data – adding depth to your geospatial analysis

22/09/2020

With traditional maps and GIS software commonly presenting their information through a two dimensional medium, it is often easy to forget that the world they…

DEM derivatives – get more than you bargain for!

15/10/2020

As touched on in last week’s blog, one of the main advantages offered by digital elevation rasters, or digital elevation models (DEMs), is that they…

Digital elevation model types

10/09/2020

Last week we looked at reasons for why you would want to include elevation data in your spatial analysis (see it here if you missed it). This…

DSM2DTM: Now Your See It…now You Don’t

02/08/2021

After years of frustrating trial-and-error we have finally found a technique to automatically convert digital surface models (DSMs) – generated using optical stereo images (i.e…

Flood Hazard Index

13/11/2020

FLOOD HAZARD MAP The map below shows a flood hazard map that was generated using machine learning and the DEMSA2. Map A provides an overview of…

Flood!

11/07/2020

This map shows the flood hazard around the Knysna estuary, South Africa. The flood-prone areas (shown in red and orange) were identified using a combination…