Stuart Martin, a long-time friend has decided to join GTI! We welcome him as part of the GTI team as of April. Stuart, well know in the GIS community, will fill the position of Director Business Development and will take over most of the marketing activities from Jenny Sturgess. Jenny will be spending more of her time mothering little Mark at home, but will still be involved with GTI.

GeoTerraImage is proud to launch a new high resolution urban land use dataset which includes 18 manually interpreted land use classes (i.e. cluster housing, high rise, informal housing, open space, etc).  Created by urban mapping specialists, from high resolution imagery; this data provides a strategic dataset for urban management. The data capture process is based on visual interpretation, complimented by selective in-field verification. Initially the data will be available for all metropolitan areas and will be complimented with other major towns throughout South Africa over time. Using this unique dataset, users can analyze urban land use change whilst monitoring densification and growth in areas. Historical Land Use data is also available which will allow users to conduct time series analysis of areas. The well defined capture methodology allows for cost effective updates to the datasets, hereby providing regular updates.  The land use data is available in a vector format for simple integration with other spatial datasets.

All 4 of GTI’s directors, Fanie Ferreira, Pieter Sevenhuysen, Mark Thompson and Stuart Martin, has recently been registered as Professional Geo-information Practitioners at Plato after qualifying based on their qualifications, experience and successful completion of the Plato law exam.