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Geospatial Database For The Prince Edward Islands

Geospatial Database For The Prince Edward Islands
As rare landmasses dotting the vast Southern Ocean, South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands provide valuable insights for climatologists, geographers, biologists, botanists, and even astronomers. To consolidate the geospatial information for transdisciplinary researchers and the public, Rudolph and her colleagues acquired a high-resolution digital surface model from South Africa’s directorate of National Geospatial Information (NGI) and used it as a baseline from which to create other data layers such as slope, aspect, and contours. Their study was published in the South African Journal of Science.