Geomatica™ Titanium (v2) Presentation Copyright 2010

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Geomatica is …Geomatica is …

a dynamic educational tool built on Geographical Information Geographical Information SystemsSystems (GIS)-based software

not simply a commercial product used in an educational context; it has been designed from the bottom up to effectively provide a multi-disciplinary approach to learning


And Geomatica And Geomatica Titanium …Titanium …

supports the teaching of the new FET 2006 Geography curriculum specifically the new Geographical Information Systems (GIS) components

includes key data set groupings and is supported by web-based teacher/learner resource materials

also allows educators from Grades 4 to 12 to cover many aspects of the Geography curriculum knowledge areas as well as offering exciting possibilities for cross-curricula project work


What exactly is What exactly is GIS?GIS?

A computer-based system for managing, storing, analysing, modelling and visualising spatial information

GIS is becoming more useful across disciplines: maths, science, history, environmental science

Is GIS used just for Is GIS used just for Geography?Geography?


What Can I Teach What Can I Teach Using Geomatica Using Geomatica

Titanium?Titanium?

The GTi materials can be used for teaching:

All facets of Grade 10-12 geographical skills and

techniques in the Geography curriculum

including the GIS components for Grades 10

to 12

Most facets of urban and rural demographic studies.

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GTi can also be used to teach many aspects of the Geography Knowledge Focus areas from Grades 4 to 9. Click here to see more ..


GTi Data Set GTi Data Set GroupingsGroupings

GTi contains the following data groups that give coverage of most of the Geography knowledge focus areas.

World Data: Infrastructural , geographical and satellite imagery on a global level.

African Data: high level population statistics, political boundaries, sea depths & a digital elevation model

Local Area Data: extracts of toposheets, satellite images and where available, aerial photographs for 12 local areas

South African Data: Utilities, Hydrology, Land Classifications, Geology, Climatology

Cites, rivers and lakes

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South African Stats: Population Density and a profusion of census data


How do I learn How do I learn the GTi skills?the GTi skills?

We offer a whole range of ways to learn the skills you and the learners need to get to grips with GIS

For teachers, we offer:

GettingStarted

Opening the atlas,

navigating and using

layouts and layers

Accompanied by automated tutorials to show you how to do things

With exercises and self-assessment tasks

Skills Suite A

MeasuringDistance and Area

Sketching & Printing

Thresholding

Working with GIS

databases

Skills Suite B

Skills Suite C

Skills Suite D

Skills Suite x…

Skills Suite E

Working with a GPS

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An introduction to Geomatica Titanium training course. Part of which is a booklet of the first 6 lessons you can present to your class

This can be followed by a focussed course in Grade 10 & 11 GIS topics which is centred around our Grade 10 & 11 Workbooks

Teachers can also work through the Skills Suites and associated assessments. Assessments can be sent back to us if you wish to receive certification on the skills you have acquired.


GTi Support GTi Support Materials (Grade 10)Materials (Grade 10)designed to work with your GTi classroom and

Take Home resources

With the formal inclusion of GIS components from 2006 into the Geography curriculum for Grades 10 to 12, we have found it necessary to provide structured lessons for the teachers that cover the relevant material.

Our Learner's Workbook and Teacher’s Handbook consists of 10 structured lessons and assessments that guide the educator and learners through the Grade 10 GIS requirements.

Learner’s Workbook also available in Afrikaans



Take Home resources




Take Home resources


Learner’s Workbook also available in Afrikaans


Why should I buy Why should I buy Geomatica?Geomatica?

Geomatica is …

easy to install, learn and use

specifically targeted at the education market

an innovative local product providing local data, support and training

supported by a website and other resources

produced via consultation with educators, providing relevant, timely and updated materials


What computer resources What computer resources does Geomatica need to does Geomatica need to

operate?operate?

Operating Systems Hardware Specs

Windows 98, ME, NT4.0, 2000, XP, Vista

Minimum requirements:125Mb RAM315Mb hard disk space

Mac OS 8.x and later

Linux/Unix Recommended requirements:

500Mb RAM500Mb hard disk space


Do you offer any Do you offer any other products?other products?

Yes, we do!

Atlas Name Subject Age Groups

Interactive Mapwork Geography

Ages 13 and above (Grade 8 and above)

Periodic Table Dataset

Chemistry Ages 15 and above (Grade 10 and above)

Battle of Makana History Ages 12 to 14 (Grade 7, 8 and 9)


There are many ways of introducing GIS into your teaching depending on the resources your school has

Doesn’t have electricity or computers: Use Maptrix kits for teaching reading of topographical maps

Has a computer lab for Geography use: Purchase a 30 user Geomatica lab licence. Geomatica can also be installed on the Geography teachers own computers to enable lesson preparation etc.

My school:

How do I introduce How do I introduce these GIS resources these GIS resources

into my school?into my school?


There are many ways of introducing GIS into your teaching depending on the resources your school has

Would like to give learners homework on Geomatica: Purchase copies of Geomatica Take Home and the Learner’s Workbook for each learner to use on home computers. Ideal for project work as well.

My school:

How do I introduce How do I introduce these GIS resources these GIS resources into my school? (2)into my school? (2)

Has a computer lab, but it’s not for Geography use: Equip your Geography classroom for GIS teaching with a single user licence of Geomatica, a laptop and a data projector


Who do we work Who do we work with?with?

Data partners

A key element of our philosophy is on providing free-flowing ideas to educators that can be used in problem solving and decision making scenarios with the learners

The Aircraft Operating Company (AOC) provide us with high quality aerial photographs especially for local environment atlases in Gauteng.

As a result, one of the key components of our Geomatica product is the provision of up to date data for educators to use in their teaching.

The Chief Directorate of Surveys and Mapping provides us with digital versions of all the 1:50000 Toposheets in South Africa

As an investor in our company GeoTerraImage give us access to extensive digital data sets based on earth observation satellite data and aerial photography for use in the development of the Geomatica Product Suite


Who do we work Who do we work with?with?

Collaborations

We believe that the success of our product is linked to forming lasting relationships with educators in all sectors of South African education: formal, informal and home schooling, both at grass roots level and management level.

Impak Onderwysdiens. Impak provide a comprehensive framework for parents who home school their children. Impak have decided to incorporate the Geomatica Titanium Atlas into their Geography syllabus from grade 4 to 12 for their registered learners.

Rhodes University Mathematics Education Project (RUMEP). We have an informal collaboration with RUMEP to guide the development of new Maths materials and resources. It is vital for us to consult people who have the right expertise to advise on these matters; RUMEP as an organisation is ideal for this, as they are involved in teacher development and upliftment


Other important Other important affiliationsaffiliations

We are also registered with..Associated Distributors of Educational Supplies in

Southern Africa (ADESSA) who represent educational suppliers in their dealings

with government departments, educational

institutions and other interested parties. It is

independent of government, and is

funded by subscriptions from member companies (http://www.adessa.org.za

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The following provincial Supplier Databases:

Western CapeEastern CapeKwazulu-NatalMpumalanga

Free State


The Geomatica The Geomatica Philosophy …Philosophy …

Our product is a growing entity. In an ever-changing world, teachers should have access to resources that are growing to meet the needs of education and as a result the national and global economies

Our product is developed in South Africa and provides educators and learners with materials that are locally relevant

Relationship building with educators in all sectors of South African education

Development of a product that focuses on engaging learners in developing the critical skills and achieving the OBE cross field outcomes

Click here if youwould like to readmore about this…

Geomatica Geomatica TitaniumTitanium

Interactive Tools Interactive Tools DemonstrationDemonstrationThe following pages show The following pages show

you highlights of the GTi you highlights of the GTi Atlas data, tools and an Atlas data, tools and an

example of each.example of each.

Measuring – Linear DistancesFrom Pretoria to London as the crow flies.

Measuring – Non Linear DistancesFrom Pretoria to Sun City

Measuring – Irregular Shaped AreasArea and Perimeter of Zimbabwe

Measuring – Polygon Shaped Areas (Triangles up to Octagons and more…)Area and perimeter of castle in Cape Town

Measuring – Arcs and their anglesAngle between the two runways at the Pofadder airfield

Measuring – Regular Shaped Areas orientated at anglesPerimeter & area of a rectangular plot in Nelspruit

Measuring – Using shapes to solve problemsWhat is the distance from Paris, France to the nearest coast?

Viewing two layers at a time (View-in-view)Cape Town Aerial Photo and 1:50000 Toposheet

Viewing two layers at a time (View-in-view)1:50000 Toposheet and Cape Town Aerial Photo

Elevation / Height Profiles (Cross-sections) on non-straight linesWhat does the profile of the Comrades Marathon terrain from ‘Maritzburg to Durban look like ?

Elevation / Height Profiles (Cross-sections) on non-straight lines

1. Draw the required line using appropriate tool in this case from ‘Martizburg to Durban

Elevation / Height Profiles (Cross-sections) on non-straight lines

2. Set up and show the Profile for the drawn line

Profiles of other continuous data such as rainfall, temperature, population density …

This profile shows the correlation between rainfall (Blue) and elevation (Green) from Cape Town to Gauteng

This exercise shows how learners can analyse the physical structure of South Africa using the Digital Elevation Model and the Thresholding tool. This first image shows the demarcation of contours from 1m to 600m.

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This is an extract from the Teachers Guide for a lesson put together on this topic.

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This is an extract from the Learners Worksheet for a lesson on this topic.

This image shows all the demarcated areas (regions): which have been added to the atlas as a Sketch layer. This enables the learners to re-display this layer at any time as it is saved to a hard disk.

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Databases: The underlying strength of any GIS is its database structure. It is in this area that much of the information of the GIS is located. Most GIS’s make use of relational databases, where information between tables is linked via a common field, rather than flat file databases, where all the information pertaining to a Layer would be contained in a single, sometimes cumbersome table.

A GIS database also includes data

about the spatial

locations and the shape of geographic

features recorded as points, lines, pixels, grid

cells or tins as well as their attributes

This is an extract from the ‘Skills Suite’ on Databases. These skills suites introduce a single GIS topic which you and the learners can explore.

Another extract from the Databases ‘Skills Suite’. This is also supported by an automated tutorial to guide you through the process.

What other What other tools does GTi tools does GTi

have?have?

GTi has many advanced analysis tools such as …

Basin regions and histograms

Buffer zone region analysis

Cluster region analysis

Flood zone region analysis

Voronoi region analysis

Polygon fitting region analysis

Viewshed region analysis

Various raster region analysis

These are perfect tools for undertaking problem-based project work …

particularly for Grade 12s

What products can the What products can the learners produce with learners produce with

GTi?GTi?

If learners are given project work based around GTi, they can produce work that shows how they have interacted with the GIS and the tools …

Sketches which can be saved and retrieved as layers

Region analysis layers which can be saved and retrieved

Reports containing screen shots from GTi

Direct printed copies of what they see on the screen

This image shows a hypothetical dam placed over a river using underlying elevation data. The dam coverage area is shown by the pink area.

The histogram shows the dam volume vs height

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Flood basin tool

Using the Rivers layer (vector data), find a 5km buffer zone around the Tugela river in KZN.

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Buffer zone tool

Cluster region analysis for selected villages (points) in the Eastern Cape

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Cluster region

analysis tool

Using the buffer zone tool, find which villages in the Eastern Cape are closer than 5km or less.

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Buffer zone tool

Using the Basin region tool to locate the watershed basin for 3 given points

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Basin region

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Want to know Want to know more?more?

Want to know Want to know more?more?

Contact us:• Denese 053 643 0574 or

Debbie 046 624 8495• Email Denese at: [email protected]

or Debbie at [email protected]• Or visit us at: www.geomatica.co.za

mailto:[email protected]

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Grade 4:Grade 4: Settlement, food production in South Africa, mapwork skills, provincial map of South Africa, world map with continents and oceans, lakes & rivers, boundariesGrade 5:Grade 5: Physical structure of South Africa, climatic regions of South Africa, population density patterns, mapwork skillsGrade 6: Grade 6: Global cities and countries, mapwork skills, location of different countries, cities

GET Intermediate Phase:GET Intermediate Phase:Grades 4 to 6Grades 4 to 6

Geography Knowledge Focus AreasGeography Knowledge Focus Areaswhere Geomatica can be usedwhere Geomatica can be used

For examples click here

Plus…Geomatica can be used for innovative and exciting

cross-curricula project work

World boundaries, oceans, rivers, lakes and cities

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South African Provincial boundaries and cities

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Settlement: villages, towns and cities in South Africa

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This exercise shows how learners can analyse the physical structure of South Africa using the Digital

Elevation Model and the Thresholding tool. This first image shows the demarcation of contours from 1m to

600m.

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This image shows all the demarcated areas (regions): which have been added to the atlas as

a Sketch layer. This enables the learners to re-display this layer at any time as it is saved to a

hard disk

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Global cities and countries

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Grade 7:Grade 7:Natural hazards, population growth, mapwork skillsGrade 8:Grade 8:Settlement patterns, patterns of social inequalities, natural resources, mapwork skills Grade 9:Grade 9:Mapwork skills, case studies for social and environmental conflicts

GET Senior Phase:GET Senior Phase:Grades 7 to 9Grades 7 to 9



Plus…Geomatica can be used for innovative and exciting

cross-curricula project work

South African Population per municipality 2001

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South African Land Use

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Grade 10:Grade 10:Global scale structures & landforms, African population including key human-environment interactions, map use & skills, Geographic Information Systems Grade 11:Grade 11:Global water masses and South African ecosystems, map use & skills, Geographic Information Systems Grade 12:Grade 12:South African river profiles, drainage basins, catchment areas, slopes, rural and urban settlement in SA/Africa, people and their needs (SA), map use & skills, Geographic Information Systems

FET Band:FET Band:Grades 10 to 12Grades 10 to 12



Global scale structures (Tectonic plates)

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African Countries and Population

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Global Water Masses and Sea Depth Contours

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South African Biomes (Ecosystems)

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South African River Profiles

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South African Catchment Areas

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Local Area Slope and Aspect

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A quote from one of our usersA quote from one of our users

“Geomatica is the best teaching tool for Geography and allows a

much wider coverage of the subject framework. It has

functions that allow teaching concepts in Geography which

previously learners found difficult to grasp.”

GEOMATICA PHILOSOPHYNapierian GIS Technologies (Pty) Ltd is a high-tech company specialising in the development and marketing of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) products specifically aimed at the educational market. Napierian has been established as a private company based in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, and is owned by its principal investors and operators. The establishment of Napierian is the culmination of several years of intense brainstorming and innovative product development.

South Africa’s shift to an Outcomes Based Education policy has resulted in much disorder in the provision of learning materials and particularly in the provision of project-based resources. There is a clearly defined need for tools to enable educators to develop project-based learning materials that support Outcomes Based Education. At the same time, there is a pressing need for additional exposure of educators and learners to key subjects such as mathematics, science and information technology.

Napierian has a working product in their Geomatica™ product suite. The product suite is developed using a GIS-based software package that allows educators and learners to work with local data and imagery to determine the solutions to specific task-oriented questions. It combines an easy-to-use, step-by-step interface coupled with a powerful GIS toolset that permits easy viewing and manipulation of the data and images. By basing Geomatica on GIS, we are harnessing the power of working with spatial data and in particular harnessing the power of GIS to develop spatial awareness and higher-level cognitive skills. Locally relevant data is also provided, with supplementary data content being made available via the Internet and in subsequent releases. Within this broader remit of developing spatial awareness and higher-level cognitive skills, particular attention has been given to enhancing mathematics and science concepts and skills, whilst providing a seamless link with technology so as to strengthen areas of weakness in the South African education system.

Our philosophy is based on four key principles: change and growth, forming relationships, providing locally relevant resources and development of critical skills in learners. We will continue to develop our product whilst being guided by these principles.

Our product is a growing entity. We believe that in an ever-changing world, teachers should have access to resources that themselves are growing to meet the needs of education and as a result the national and global economies. We deliver new modules, lesson resources and other services to the teachers based on their feedback. We are fully aware that educators have access to many datasets from local municipalities and the Internet. However, it takes time to locate these and to load them into a product so that they can interact with the data. Many educators simply do not have the time or the facilities to do this. Our service therefore is to find out from educators what their needs and requirements are and to collate this data for them in a ready to use educational format.

Closely linked with this idea of growth, is that of forming relationships. We believe that the success of our product is linked to forming lasting relationships with educators in all sectors of South African education: formal, informal and home schooling, both at grass roots level and management level. We do not simply sell our package and leave our customers to get on with it. Our web site allows users to participate in a Discussion Forum about their usage of the product and also to post innovative lessons that they have presented based on Geomatica. By forming long-term relationships with schools and other bodies we can also aid in technology skills transfer, particularly in light of the introduction of GIS into the Grade 10 to 12 curriculum in 2006.

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