GeoSpace International

Company Profile

GeoSpace International (Pty) Ltd is a Pretoria, South Africa, based company that has been active in the geospatial industry since 1989. GeoSpace combines appropriate technologies from Hexagon Geospatial with subject matter expertise in domains such as surveys and mapping, official statistics (particularly censuses and surveys), field surveys, agriculture, education, health, and energy to provide relevant and realistic solutions to clients. The company has provided products and services to clients and beneficiaries in more than 15 countries.

Since 2002, Hexagon Geospatial has supplied GeoSpace with products and tools that enable the company to build innovative client-specific solutions. HxGN Smart Census is a prime example, as it is a software platform based on Hexagon Geospatial’s M.App Enterprise solution, and was a collaborative development effort involving the census subject matter expertise of GeoSpace and the software development capabilities of Hexagon Geospatial.

Areas Served

Botswana	South Africa
Lesotho	Zimbabwe
Malawi	Swaziland
Mozambique	Tanzania
Namibia	Zambia

Industries Served

National Mapping Agencies
National Statistical Offices
National Roads Agencies
Forestry and Agriculture
Education and Research

Expertise

Authorized distributor of Hexagon Geospatial solutions in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa – The successful partnership between GeoSpace and Hexagon Geospatial has led to recognition in the partner network, including the company’s win of the 2018 Hexagon Geospatial Partner Award for excellence in Hexagon Smart M.App Solution Sales.
The leader in census solutions and sample surveys in Africa – GeoSpace has performed census mapping, census planning technical consultancies, and training in more than 15 countries.
More than two decades of field survey implementation – Today, GeoSpace has an unrivaled track record in large scale socio-demographic field surveys in South Africa and is arguably the largest field survey company on the African continent.
Leading aerial photography operator in Southern Africa – One of the company’s major customers in this domain is Chief Directorate: National Geospatial Information (CDNGI), the national mapping agency of South Africa.
A top geospatial consultancy service provider in Africa – GeoSpace’s philosophy is to build long-term relationships with clients by providing solutions rather than strictly reselling standard software and imagery products.
Precision farming services – GeoSpace recently expanded their offerings with the implementation of GeoFarmSA, a geospatially enabled precision farming platform developed on Hexagon Geospatial technology.

HxGN Smart Census: Digital Solution for the Entire Census Cycle

HxGN Smart Census provides a total digital census solution to national statistical offices. This modular platform covers all three main phases of a census: pre-enumeration mapping, enumeration, and dissemination. Due to the digital information gathering model, HxGN Smart Census also eliminates the often error-prone step of converting data from paper to digital records that occurs in traditional census workflows.

The software was developed on Hexagon Geospatial’s M.App Enterprise platform with subject matter input from GeoSpace International. Components of HxGN Smart Census are currently being used by Statistics South Africa and Statistics Botswana in preparation for their 2021 censuses.

To learn more, visit HxGN Smart Census webpage.

Compressing Terabytes of Data into a Single Source of Truth

GeoSpace flies the entire country of South Africa every three years to create aerial photographs of the country for its customer, Chief Directorate: National Geospatial Information (CDNGI), the national mapping agency of South Africa. Mosaics of this imagery provide the basemap for the entire country used not only by CDNGI, but also by other customers and local governments.

During the most recently completed project, 440 flight missions were performed to gather 220,000 individual images of the country. After orthorectifying and mosaicking the images to a 1:10,000 scale, GeoSpace was left managing nearly 46,000 files. Combined, the files totalled 30 TB of data, which GeoSpace and their clients found to be nearly impossible to work with.

Using Hexagon Geospatial’s GeoCompressor product, GeoSpace compressed all 46,000 files at 50cm GSD into a single, seamless mosaic in just 10 days. The resulting ECW format image, compressed by a factor of 10, maintains visually-lossless quality, and is streamed quickly and efficiently to users of desktop and web GIS server technologies through Hexagon Geospatial’s ERDAS APOLLO data management and delivery product.

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