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Official launch of DMC and display of
GeoSpace aircraft and camera systems
to clients at a special function held at Wonderboom airport north of Pretoria
Receive Intergraph SG&I Distributor
Award for Outstanding Performance at
the Geospatial World Conference held
in Washington DC.
Awarded GPS Field Survey contract by South African Post Office (SAPO)
Teleatlas appoints GeoSpace to do
photography for seven metros in South
Africa.
Celebrating 2010!: 20 years in business and 10 years in digital aerial photography!
Sponsor of the fourth Africa Symposium on Statisitcs Development (ASSD) held in Luanda, Angola
Sponsor of 57th Session of the
International Statistics Institute.
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Awarded the DMC operator contract from Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Through this partnership we operate the Department's camera in our Cessna 421C Golden Eagle. As per agreement the camera is mainly used for aerial photography of the Chief Directorate National Geospatial Information.
Acquire Aerocommander aircraft - turbine engined aircraft suitable to operate
virtually anywhere in Africa.
Acquire large format DMC system - the
first and only Company to operate two
DMC's in Africa.
Attend Z/I Imaging operator conference in Germany - the largest forum of its kind in
the world.
Awarded StatsSA aerial photography
contract covering close to 20million
hectares.
Southern Sudan census EA boundary
verification project.
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Sponsorship of second Africa Symposium
on Statistics Development(ASSD) held in Kigali, Rwanda.
Acquire bigger and faster twin-engined aircraft
(Cessna 421C Golden Eagle) suitable for large format DMC
Attend and contribute to United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) Expert Group on Census mapping meeting in New York, USA
Address UNFPA conference on Census
advocacy and best practice in Praia,
Cape Verde.
Sponsorship of third Africa Symposium
on Statistics Development held in Accra,
Ghana.
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Appointment of Lucas Mokwena as Director.
Lucas, who has been with the company since 1996, acquired 26% shareholding at the same time
Adoption of GeoSpace BBBEE strategy by GeoSpace Board.
Present technical paper on the use of
satellite imagery in census mapping
applications at the SPOT International Conference in Toulouse, France.
Completion of Lesotho 2006 census
mapping project. Lesotho was the first
country to use SPOT5 2.5m natural colour satellite imagery as national base map
for a census.
Sponsorship of first Africa Symposium
on Statistics Development - Cape Town,
South Africa.
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Conduct South Africa's Social Grant Impact Survey for Department of Social Development (DOSD) -
our biggest socio-demographic survey to date
Refresh company logo and corporate
colours.
Sponsor of the 14th Conference of Commonwealth Statisticians - Cape Town South Africa.
Deliver paper on remote sensing, GIS and related technology in census mapping at the Commonwealth Conference of Statisticians in Cape Town, South Africa
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Surveying of over 10,000 kilometres
power lines for ESKOM
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First WorldBank General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)
contract. This marks the beginning of a long relationship with the World Bank providing technical consultancies and training on GIS in statistical agencies in Anglophone African countries
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Provide Total Census Mapping solution, sponsored by Sida, covering 15,000 EAs
in Tanzania.
Acquisition Piper Chieftain aircraft and
second medium format digital aerial photography system.
Master sample mapping solution for the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) - South Africa. This included digital aerial photography covering close to 1000 EAs.
Project Management partner to the HSRC
on the Nelson Mandela HIV/AIDS prevalence survey - the first national survey of
this kind in South Africa.
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Provide Total Census mapping
solution to
the Namibian 2001 census.
Main service provider to StatsSA for 2001
Census in South Africa.
Acquisition of Beechcraft Baron B55 aircraft.
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Registration of GeoSpace International (Pty)
Ltd and the start of the expansion of the business into Africa.
Pioneering of videography and acquisition
of our first digital aerial photography system.
Acquisition of our first digital aerial
photography system.
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Project Eagle - the establishment of the
first digital enumeration area frame for
South Africa.
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Project HELP - at the time the largest GPS fieldwork project in South Africa
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Registration of Megasub Holdings - In 1999 Megasub became GeoSpace International