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Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology


Department of Geography
, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (GGM)

Welcome to a Department where we offer quality education and research around the central theme of "SCIENCES CONCERING OUR CHANGING LIVING ENVIRONMENT" through the following focussed disciplines:

Environmental Sciences
Geomorphology
Geoinformatics
Meteorology
Remote Sensing
Social Geosciences

 

News

Successful 4th South African/Polish bi-lateral workshop - 07/02/2012
From Centre for Geoinformation Science

The fourth bi-lateral workshop of the research cooperation between the University of Pretoria and the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Wrocław, Poland was held at the University of Pretoria from 23 January to 1 February 2012. The title of the cooperation is 'Volunteered geographical information (VGI) for spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) and geoportals'.

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Short course offered in Spatial Databases with PostGIS - 05/02/2012
From Centre for Geoinformation Science

This course is presented on 12, 19, 20, 26 March and 2 April 2012 and provides a practical introduction to PostgreSQL with PostGIS, covering the following major themes of spatial databases: installing and configuring PostGIS, viewing PostGIS data in a desktop GIS, spatial SQL queries, spatial joins and spatial indexing.

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