Towards a country-wide mapping & monitoring of formal and informal settlements in South Africa. Pilot-study in cooperation with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA)
This report describes a pilot study that is carried out jointly by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). The pilot study aims at develop a robust methodology for the automated mapping of settlements, formal and informal, in the entire territory of South Africa. It relies on the methodology for automated settlement mapping, also known as Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL), developed by the JRC and the high resolution satellite data holdings of SANSA. Amongst other uses it aims a supporting the National Department of Human Settlement (NDHS) in its implementation of the Upgrading Informal Settlements Programme (UISP) with the objective of eventually upgrading all informal settlements in the country. The pilot study focusses on the Gauteng area, the cities of Durban and Rustenburg as well as a rural area in the Limpopo province. Once stabilised the workflow will be extended to the full country to generate a multi-temporal wall-to wall data set of the settlements of South Africa.
KEMPER Thomas;
MUDAU Nale;
MANGARA Paida;
PESARESI Martino;
2015-01-07
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC92657
978-92-79-44709-9,
1831-9424,
EUR 27024,
OP LB-NA-27024-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC92657,
10.2788/970905,
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