Incubated by Innovus, Stellenbosch University's technology transfer office, Geosmart's advance space and geospatial application technology products and services now provide solutions for renewable energy projects, hydrodynamic modelling, telecom and electric infrastuctures, wastewater management, winegrowers, ecological modulating and fog-harvesting, to name but a few. It is also one of the cornerstones in enabling communication between small farms and communities in rural areas.
Geosmart is the brainchild of geographer and computer scientist Prof Adriaan van Niekerk, Director: Stellenbosch University Centre for Geographical Analysis. It makes use of advance space and geospatial technologies, such as earth observation and machine learning, to model future scenarios and...