[OSGeo Africa] Africa Digest, Vol 73, Issue 5

Wed Feb 13 22:11:37 PST 2013

Hi Gavin,

Many thanks for the input. Indeed, soils maps are a little fuzzy to say the
least. SOTER is the first prize option here but as I have found out recently
Zambia is the only country south of the equator which does not have a SOTER
database! In the end I have used the FAO Digital Soils Map of the World. It
is a little coarse but should do the trick for now. I saw the soil profiles
data but am not really keen on undertaking any interpolations right now.
Will perhaps revisit later at a later date.

Regards,
Wesley

Wesley Roberts PhD
GIS and Remote Sensing Professional
BioCarbon Partners
Email:   wes at biocarbonpartners.com 
Tel:       +27 83 5355 646 (South Africa)
Skype: roberts-w
www.biocarbonpartners.com

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Today's Topics:

   1. The Society for Conservation GIS (Chris)
   2. Soils Map for Zambia (Wes Roberts)
   3. Looking for job (Tsitsi Bangira)
   4. Re: Soils Map for Zambia (Gavin Fleming)
   5. Re: The Society for Conservation GIS (Ned Horning)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:57:52 +0200
From: "Chris" <chris at airphotoafrica.co.za>
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Subject: [OSGeo Africa] The Society for Conservation GIS
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    Never heard of these guys before ( the internet is as mysterious as the 
    deep blue sea )

    Apparently some SA students will be going to their annual conference in 
    the USA. Anyone know anything about this ?

    http://www.scgis.org/Lev3Page.aspx?Page3ID=86

    They are a non-profit but use software from a company that may not be 
    named here

    Tim

    Time for some proselytising ?

    ( Depends I suppose on what you can offer in terms of subsidies and 
    sponsorships ? )

    CM

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:27:54 +0200
From: "Wes Roberts" <wes at biocarbonpartners.com>
To: "'Africa local chapter discussions'" <africa at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [OSGeo Africa] Soils Map for Zambia
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Dear Colleagues,

I am in need of a soils map of Zambia. I have found a couple of scanned
paper maps which have proved difficult to use effectively. If anyone has any
suggestions where I can get a vector database of Zambian soils I would
greatly appreciate it.

Many thanks and kind regards,

Wesley

BCP CLR LOGO-FINAL LoRes

Wesley Roberts PhD

GIS and Remote Sensing Professional

BioCarbon Partners

Email:   wes at biocarbonpartners.com 

Tel:       +27 83 5355 646 (South Africa)

Skype: roberts-w

 <http://www.biocarbonpartners.com/> www.biocarbonpartners.com

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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:41:31 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tsitsi Bangira <trbangie2000 at yahoo.co.uk>
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Dear All

? 
I am looking for any GIS and remote sensing job in South Africa starting
April particularly in Gauteng and Western Cape area. My field of
specialization is EIA, surface water, water quality and ground water using
remote sensing.

Regards,
Tsitsi 

Bangira Tsitsi
University of Twente
Department of Water Resource and Environmental Management 
ITC, Faculty of Geo- Information Science and Earth Observation 
7514 AE Box 361, Enschede, The Netherlands
Mobile: +31(0)684047667
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:51:47 +0200
From: Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Soils Map for Zambia
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There was a global soils database from one of the UN agencies (ISRIC I 
think), consisting of sample points with full profile data that I used a 
few years ago at the CSIR. Bob Scholes and others at the CSIR were 
involved in its development. But it was the most useful soil data source 
I came across at the time.

If you wanted a map you pulled out the variables you were interested in 
at the depth required and interpolated your own map. There's really no 
such thing as 'a soil map' since soil classes are so fuzzily defined and 
fuzzily distributed, as well as varying over the profile.

The definitive global soil project you probably want is SOTER. The ISCW 
would be the best local source for that.

Here's a list I found: 
http://www.itc.nl/~rossiter/research/rsrch_ss_digital.html

On 13/02/2013 12:27, Wes Roberts wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am in need of a soils map of Zambia. I have found a couple of 
> scanned paper maps which have proved difficult to use effectively. If 
> anyone has any suggestions where I can get a vector database of 
> Zambian soils I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Many thanks and kind regards,
>
> Wesley
>
> BCP CLR LOGO-FINAL LoRes
>
> Wesley Roberts PhD
>
> GIS and Remote Sensing Professional
>
> BioCarbon Partners
>
> Email: _wes at biocarbonpartners.com_
>
> Tel:       +27 83 5355 646 (South Africa)
>
> Skype: roberts-w
>
> *www.biocarbonpartners.com <http://www.biocarbonpartners.com/>*
>
>
>
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:09:45 -0500
From: Ned Horning <nedh at lightlink.com>
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] The Society for Conservation GIS
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Hi Chris,

The SCGIS is effectively an (unofficial) ESRI conservation user group 
but there are a growing number of members using FOSS. It's a great group 
of friendly people and I enjoyed the few conferences I attended over the 
years. Their meetings are usually held to coincide with the ESRI user's 
meeting. SCGIS has been quite good at helping people doing conservation 
work get free copies of ESRI and ENVI software. Their scholar program is 
great. It offers opportunities to go to the annual meetings (SCGIS and 
ESRI) and a couple weeks of workshops.

Discussions about using FOSS are not uncommon at the conference or the 
email list and people are generally very receptive.

Ned

On 02/13/2013 12:57 AM, Chris wrote:
>      Never heard of these guys before ( the internet is as mysterious as
the
>      deep blue sea )
>
>      Apparently some SA students will be going to their annual conference
in
>      the USA. Anyone know anything about this ?
>
>      http://www.scgis.org/Lev3Page.aspx?Page3ID=86
>
>      They are a non-profit but use software from a company that may not be
>      named here
>
>      Tim
>
>      Time for some proselytising ?
>
>      ( Depends I suppose on what you can offer in terms of subsidies and
>      sponsorships ? )
>
>
>      CM
>
> _______________________________________________
> Africa mailing list
> Africa at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa
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