Capacity building activities at South African National Space Agency (SANSA)

Naledzani Mudau

CEOS WGCAPD 3rd Annual meeting, Dehradun, India

23-25 April 2014

“To provide for the promotion and use of space and co-operation in space-related activities, foster research in space science, advance scientific engineering through human capital, support the creation of an environment conducive to industrial development in space technology within the framework of national government policy”

SANSA primarily derives its legislative mandate from the South African National Space Agency Act (Act 36 of 2008) and its strategic mandate from the

1. Ten-Year Innovation Plan

2. National Space Strategy

3. South African Earth Observation Strategy

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SANSA Earth Observation Directorate

SANSA Space Operations Directorate

SANSA Space Science

Directorate

SANSA Space Engineering Directorate

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Space OperationsProgramme

Space Science

Programme

Space Engineering Programme

Human Capital Development Programme

Department of Science &

Technology (DST)

SANSA Board&

Executive

Organizational Structure & Strategic Programmes

• Offer efficient EO services for national and international benefit and a sustained environment

• Conduct cutting-edge research, development and innovation to continually improve SANSA’s EO offering

• Development of human capital in EO related science

• Provide services that stimulate industry growth and participation in EO

• Establish and maintain effective and mutually beneficial international partnerships partnerships in line with national strategic alignment

Key Goals:

Earth Observation Directorate

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Earth Observation Operational themes

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Reception of Data

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Sensor Spatial Resolution Coverage Date RangeLandsat 2, 3, 4, 5 15m – 60m Africa 1972 – 2011

SPOT 1, 2, 3, 4 10m – 20m Southern Africa 1986 – 2012

SAC-C 175m SADCExcl. Mauritius, DRC, Madagascar and Seychelles

2008 – 2009

CBERS 2B 20m SADCExcl. Mauritius, DRC, Madagascar and Seychelles

2008 – 2009

NOAA AVHRR 1.1km Africa 1984 – 2010*

MERIS 300m Africa 2002*

SumbandilaSat 6.25m Global 2009 – 2011

ERS-1 Radar 30m Africa 1994 – 2009*

ERS-2 Radar 30m Africa 2011 *

Archived data

Direct reception

•SPOT 5

•Landsat 7, 8

•MODIS

Distribution:

SPOT 6, WorldView-1 and 2, Pleiades, GeoEye-

1, RapidEye, TerraSar-X, RadarSat-2, Quickbird,

IKONOS

Current project = EOSAT 1: 10m-2.5m

spatial resolution

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Operational sensors

SANSA EO Catalogue

http://catalogue.sansa.org.za

Linked to SAEOS

• “Fundisa” means to teach in Zulu

• Initiative started in 2009

• Response to CEOS data democracy initiative

• Promote access and use of earth observation data

• Packaged with satellite imagery, GIS data, DEM, open source software(links),articles and links to data portals

• Data provided for research and teaching purposes.

• External hard drive updated annually and distributed to universities

• Key representatives at the university

• Remote sensing / GIS lectures/technicians

• Promotes and distribute the disk throughout the academic institution.

Fundisa Disk

• NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERISTY

• RHODES UNIVERSITY

• UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE

• UNIVERSITY OF THE FREESTATE

• UNIVERISTY OF JOHANNESBURG

• UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

• UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND

• UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA (UNISA)

• Tshwane University of Technology

• UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL - DBN Westville

• UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL - PMB

• UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND

• UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO

• UNIVERSITY OF VENDA

• UNIVERSITY OF NORTH WEST

• UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

• UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH

• UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN CAPE

Fundisa Disk content

• Designed for high schools (grade 10-12)

• Practical remote sensing and GIS

• Assist teachers

Fundisa Disk – School Edition

Fundisa Disk – School Edition

LearnGIS

Fundisa Student Portal

http://fundisa.sansa.org.za

• Bursary scheme

• Internship programme

• Short courses

• University students training

• Staff development

• Student mentorship and supervision

Human capital development

Short courses• Introductory RS & GIS for teachers and end users/decision makers

• Basic Constructs of programming

• Field Spectroscopy

• Basic Image Processing programming

• Introduction to our data offerings

• Introduction to DEM creation and topographical/hydrological modelling from DEM derivatives.

• Spatial Analysis

• Land Cover Classification

• Introduction to QGIS

• Summer or Winter School in EO

• PCI – Particularly OrthoEngine and EASI scripting

• Radar introduction

• LiDAR introduction (probably NRE or CAO)

• Linux (LPIC lev 1 and Linux Essentials – online) – providing us with ability to offer Linux Essentials later in year

• Database management in Open source or PostGIS

• R course

• Schools visit

• Science festivals

• Training for teachers-first training to be done in June

• Science centres – need for more experiments

• Public engagement – show the benefits of EO

Science Advancement

• Focused workshops on the use of Earth observation technology

• Disaster management

• Urban planning, rural and infrastructure development

• Agriculture (EOPOWER)

• Water resource management

Workshops with the end-users

THANK YOU