Satellite Maps South Africa

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Thissingle page is designed to give you a very quick weather overview of all the Satellite Photos for South Africa for today and right now. This page is always up to date with the latest Satellite Photos. Images are reduced in size and optimized to make the overview easier to read but you can zoom in and out and also click on any image to get the full size image. This Quick Satellite Overview page is optimized for all mobile devices.

We provide high quality, near real time weather satellite imagery of Southern Africa and South Africa. All Satellite Weather Photos are from EUMETSATs Geostationary Meteosat Weather Satellites and are updated every hour as new images are released by EUMETSAT. We pride ourselves on delivering these images to you in an optimized JPEG format which means they load super fast on mobile devices and in your web browser or mobile phone. We have the greatest selection of satellite weather photos and pictures ranging from Infrared Weather Photos, Water Vapour Weather Photos, Precipitation / Rainfall Estimates, Snow, Fog, Dust, Severe Storms and Microphysics to RBG Natural color images too. Our satellite weather photo service is free of charge to all users and we will never charge for the use of this web site ever.

AfriWX brings a variety of weather resources for South Africa to you in the palm of your hand. We always have the latest up to date Satellite Weather Images for Southern Africa and Beautiful Animated Satellite Images with no need for users to be fiddling with trying to refresh their browsers to get the latest images, we take care of that all for you through our custom server technologies. We also provide the latest up to date Global Forecast System (GFS) forecast model maps (WXMaps) in a format customized specially for South Africa giving you a 7 day outlook on predicted weather patterns. Our GFS Weather Maps available in 1-7 days in advance in 00z and 12z times (00HR, 12HR, 24HR, 36HR, 48HR, 60HR, 72HR, 96HR, 120HR, 144HR), as well as 2 Week or 15 Day Extended Rainfall Forecasts and even Long Term Extended 3 Months Rainfall Outlook Maps We have a variety of other Weather Resources like the State of Dams (Reservoirs) in South Africa, Rainfall Predictions and Daily Recorded Rainfall Figures, WebCams, Wind Maps, Cloud Cover Forecast Maps with Black Clouds Mode, Waves Forecasts, Ocean Swells and Sea Surface Temperatures, Animated Satellite Photos, Solar Space Weather, ENSO - El Nio and La Nia Updates for Southern Africa, South African Weather Blog and more. This Weather Site is a work in progress and new features are being added frequently.

Digital Earth SA technology translates over 30 years of archived Earth Observation (EO) satellite imagery and newly acquired imagery that covers the 1.2 million square kilometre land mass of South Africa, SADC countries and other African countries, into actionable information for addressing government priorities and environmental management. The Digital Earth SA portfolio of satellite data comprises of imagery with differing spectral, spatial, and temporal resolutions required to meet the current and future data and information needs.

Scientists in RAD develop value-added products and services from satellite imagery for anybody that requires accurate spatial information to make informed decisions to address socio-economic challenges. RAD activities provide information for estimating crop yield, monitoring settlements, and assessing water quality and vegetation status. Delivering these products from satellite imagery requires fast and efficient processing chains. Terabytes of imagery are received on a daily basis and RAD researchers are constantly developing tools and software that can handle big data more efficiently. Software for processing sensor data received by SANSA is processed using high performance computing. In addition to processing received imagery, RAD provides efficient data and information dissemination. RAD also develops web-mapping applications to provide an online platform to view and analyse their data products.

SANSA uses earth observation technology to provide useful information to decision-makers, policy makers, agribusinesses and farmers. For example, policy-makers are provided with information on the status, the changes and expansion of agricultural areas. Agribusinesses receive information to help optimise and plan storage, forecast prices, and negotiate trade agreements. Small- to large-scale farmers receive information to optimise fertiliser and irrigation management at the farm level.

Through international and national collaborations with government departments, research institutes and private sector, food security projects at SANSA Earth Observation promote planning, development and management of agricultural practices for improved national and regional productivity.

A prototype agricultural monitoring service called Crop Watch for South Africa (CW4SA) is currently being tested around the country. Enhancing Food Security in African Agricultural Systems with the support of Remote Sensing (AfriCultuReS) aims to design, implement and demonstrate an integrated agricultural monitoring and early-warning system that will support decision-making for food security.

This demonstrates the need to continuously gather data on the spatial distribution of human settlements to support, for instance, spatial planning, service delivery, and disaster and natural resource management.

SANSA proactively supports government departments with forest maps and vegetation biophysical variables that can show vegetation stress, chlorophyll content and general health conditions at a national scale to support effective environmental management. The biophysical parameters generated regularly at a national scale to support environmental scientists are: Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fAPAR) and Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) base layers.

Forests play a critical role in combating the impacts of climate change, but are threatened by the expansion of settlements, mining, forest and veld fires, and agriculture. Earth observation technology provides actionable near-real time information at a large scale for sustainable forest management and conservation.

SANSA Earth Observation technology makes it possible to monitor freshwater bodies in near-real time. From this information SANSA produces an annual water layer, and provides country-wide coverage of seasonal water body base layers for the Department of Water and Sanitation and other water authorities.

Understanding the distribution of freshwater bodies assists in planning water distribution, and integrated environmental management and planning. Freshwater resources continue to be threatened by climate change and human activities, resulting in decreased water supply and poor-quality water. Additionally, the water quality in small municipal water bodies tends to be overlooked, thus resulting in even more shortages of freshwater in rural municipalities of South Africa.

The Sakha Nation is an ethnic group native to the deepest reaches of Siberia. Where we come from, you need to act fast, think fast, and move fast to get by. If you don't, you can literally freeze to death because you're not moving fast enough. Our 950,000 people are scattered across villages in an area of more than 1 million square miles. And with per capita income of only $6,500, affordable mobility solutions are a critical need.

Hardship in Yakutsk, Russia, the world's coldest city, inspired us to invent a unique ride-hailing app that would give people in our remote villages the freedom of movement. How? It lets passengers and drivers negotiate their own price, instead of having a price dictated by an algorithm.

inDriver was such a big hit, we decided to expand in other emerging markets around the world. To be honest, I had doubts at first that we could make it. Maybe our success was due to a unique Arctic environment, or because we're a close-knit ethnic community. I was wrong to worry. Our mission of delivering pricing freedom and fairness touched a universal nerve, and quickly spread across the developing world.

By building our solution on Google Maps Platform, we have grown in only two years to become one of the world's leading ride-hailing app. Early on we grew to a customer base of 100,000 users, and today we have reached 50 million users across 31 countries around the world, from Asia to Africa to Latin America. We now have 10 global offices and keep adding more as we continue to grow.

Expanding quickly was exciting, but it posed an enormous challenge. In a little over one year we entered 23 countries, each with very different mapping requirements, such as dense urban clusters and sprawling rural terrains, to levels of internet penetration.

By then we were confident we had a winning business model. But, we also knew we couldn't scale at our current pace without the best mapping solution in the world. That meant Google Maps Platform. We needed integration of quality maps, accurate route calculation, journey time estimates, assistance with addresses, and more.

It wasn't just world-class Google technology, however, that enabled our journey. Just as important was the Google Maps Platform team's openness to working closely with us to scale our solution. We didn't want to work with a huge impersonal corporation, playing by a rule-book. And we were so impressed when Google became genuinely invested in who we were and what we wanted to achieve as underdogs living under the Arctic Circle.

Our story began during Siberia's legendary winter of 2012, which saw temperatures drop below -45C. It was Christmastime and people needed to visit family and prepare festivities. Meanwhile, elderly villagers and people with limited mobility needed extra support to get around in the cold snap.

We started as a social network group that matched private drivers with passengers who then bargained over price. It exploded overnight. We were the little guys fighting the system in a harsh environment. Just like our customers. That's the secret to our appeal around the world, from Cape Town to Mexico City.

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