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Mr. Siddique Motala | Dr. George Sithole | Dr. Julian Smit | | Dr Jennifer Whittal Details of staff members appear in alphabetical order. 
Lecturer BSc Land Surveying (UND), MSc(Eng) UCT, HDHET (CPUT) Contact Phone: +27 - 21 - 6503574 Biographical Information Siddique joined the Division in 2009 and lectures GIS1, Elementary Surveying and Surveying 1 Research Interests Education, GIS, cultural heritage 
Senior Lecturer BSc Surveying Hons UZ(Zim), MSc IGP ITC(NL), PhD TUDelft(NL), LSZ (Zim) Contact Phone: +27 - 21 - 6503569 Biographical Information Dr. George Sithole graduated with a BSc. Honours degree in Surveying from the University of Zimbabwe in 1992. He immediately entered the surveying industry and registered as a land surveyor in training with the Council of Land Surveyors of Zimbabwe. In 1994 he recieved his licence to practice as a Professional Land Surveyor. In 1996 he enrolled at ITC (Enschede-Netherlands) and at the end of 1997 received an MSc. degree in Integrated Geoinformation and Map production. In 1998 Dr. Sithole returned to the University of Zimbabwe as a Lecturer and stayed there until 2001. During this period he also practiced as Land Surveyor. In 2001 he joined the Technical University of Delft and earned his Doctorate in 2005. In 2005 he rejoined the University of Zimbabwe as a Lecturer. in June 2006, Dr. Sithole joined the Division of Geomatics as a senior lecturer. Research Interests Dr. Sithole's interests are in the areas of Laser Altimetry, Photogrammetry, Computing and 3D reconstruction. Publications Refereed Publications Sithole, G., 2005: “Segmentation and Classification of Airborne Laser Scanner Data”. Ph.D. Thesis. Publications on Geodesy, 59. Publication of Netherlands Geodetic Commision. ISBN 90 6132 292 8. 184 pages. Sithole, G., Vosselman, G., 2004: Experimental comparison of filter algorithms for bare-Earth extraction from airborne laser scanning point clouds. ISPRS JPRS. Volume 59, Issues 1-2. Conference Presentations Sithole, G., Vosselman, G., 2005: “Filtering of airborne laser scanner data based on segmented point clouds”. ISPRS WG III/3, III/4, V/3 Workshop “Laser scanning 2005”, September 12-14, 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands. On CD. 6 pages. Vosselman, G., Sithole, G., 2004: “Recognizing structure in laser scanner point clouds”. NATSCAN International conference: “Laser-Scanners for Forest and Landscape Assessment - Instruments, Processing Methods and Applications”, 3 - 6 October 2004, Freiburg, Germany. Vosselman, B.G.H. Gorte., G., Sithole, G., 2004: Change Detection for Updating Medium Scale Maps Using Laser Altimetry. IAPRS, WG III/3, Vol. XXXV, part B3, 12 to 23 July 2004 in Istanbul, Turkey. Sithole, G., Vosselman, G., 2003: “Comparison of filtering algorithms”. Workshop on 3-D reconstruction from airborne laserscanner and InSAR data, October 8-10, 2003, Dresden, Germany. Volume XXXIV Part 3/W13, ISSN 1682-1777, pp. 71-78. Sithole, G., Vosselman, G., 2003: Automatic Structure Detection in a Point-Cloud of an Urban Landscape 2nd Joint Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas (Urban 2003), May 22-23, 2003, Berlin, Germany 5 p. Sithole, G., 2002: "Filtering Strategy: Working Towards Reliability". Proceedings of the Photogrammetric Computer Vision ISPRS Commission III, Symposium 2002 September 9 - 13, 2002, Graz, Austria Sithole, G., 2001: "Filtering of Laser Altimetry Data Using a Slope Adaptive Filter". In: Hofton, Michelle A. (ed) Proceedings of the ISPRS workshop on Land Surface Mapping and Characterization Using Laser Altimetry, 22nd to 24th October 2001, Annapolis, Maryland 22- 25 October 2001, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol XXXIV part 3/W 4 Commission III. ISSN 0246 1840, pp.203-210 Gumbo B., Munyamba N., Sithole G., Savenije H.H.G., 2001: "Coupling of digital elevation model and rainfall-runoff model in storm drainage network design". 2nd WARFSA/Waternet Symposium, “Integrated Water Resources Management; Theory, Practice, Cases”, 30-31October 2001, Cape Town, South Africa. Sithole, G., 1999: "3D Modeling on the Internet". Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium On Science And Technology. 3 August 1999. The Sheraton International Conference Center. Harare, Zimbabwe. 
Senior Lecturer BSc (Surveying) UCT, PhD UCT Contact Phone: +27 - 21 - 6503574 Biographical Information Dr Julian Smit completed his BSc (survey) degree at UCT in 1993 and continued with postgraduate studies at the same university under the supervision of Prof. Heinz Rüther. His research involved the application of digital photogrammetric mapping technologies in deep level mining. In 1997 he graduated with a PhD having submitted a thesis entitled “Three Dimensional Measurement of Textured Surfaces using Digital Photogrammetric Techniques”. In 1998 Dr Smit left academia and took up the management of an aerial survey company, specialising in photogrammetric map production and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). During the course of 2003, together with Prof. Heinz Rüther and Dr Graeme van der Vlugt, he started a photogrammetry, remote sensing and GIS company specialising in environmental and land management (see information in that regard at Afrimapgis ). Dr Smit joined the Division of Geomatics in January 2006 as a senior lecturer. His research interests are in the application of GIS, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetric technologies in the area of environmental and land management. Dr Smit is a member of GISSA and the Western Cape GIS Standards Generating Body. He is also currently seeking professional registration with PLATO. 
PLs; Past President and Member SAGI SENIOR LECTURER CONTACT ME Email: Jennifer.Whittal(special character)uct.ac.za Phone: +27 21 6503575 Telefax: +27 21 6503572 Snail Mail: Room 504.1 Menzies Building, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701. TERTIARY EDUCATION BSc in Surveying UCT (1989) MSc (Egnineering) UCT (1991) PhD Calgary (2008) Doctoral research was conducted in the field of Land Tenure and Cadastral Systems with a thesis entitled Fiscal Cadastral Reform: A Case Study of the GV2000 Project of the City of Cape Town. To guide policy and practice in complex situations, this research in the area of fiscal cadastral reform focuses on formulating an appropriate framework for reform, with CAMA as a primary element. This research identifies a suitable theoretical and methodological framework for fiscal cadastral systems reform. This framework is informed by theory which is tested in application on the case study of the GV2000 Project and thereafter inductively extended. The main contributions of the research are in the exploration of an appropriate philosophical paradigm for fiscal cadastral systems research, the application of social systems theory in the consideration of the processes of property valuation and taxation as sub-systems of a fiscal cadastral system, which in itself is part of a larger whole (the cadastral system), and in the development of a methodological framework for fiscal cadastral systems reform. The findings of this research are that critical realism is a suitable theoretical basis for research in fiscal cadastral systems, that a social systems approach facilitates a holistic investigating including both the natural and social aspects of the system, that a pluralist multimethodological approach accommodates both positivist and interpretivist approaches and facilitates the identification of a suite of suitable and complementary tools for research and analysis of cases of fiscal cadastral systems reform. A further research outcome is the inductive extension of what are understood to be “best practices” in property valuation and taxation to an integrated, social systems, strategic framework for reform of fiscal cadastral systems. RESEARCH INTERESTS Theoretical research - cadastral systems in general Extension of theory developed in PhD work to application in cadastral systems in general. In particular the adoption of a critical realist (critical realism, critical thinking) approach. Juridical and integrated cadastral systems Urban Informal Settlements: Upgrading and flexible land tenure systems: Land holding by the poor in the urban context is a particular issue requiring research and development of practical tools. Africa Centre for Cities (ACC): My involvement will be in the specialist areas of land surveying, transfer and ownership processes, land tenure issues and options, and property valuation and taxation. Land Tenure and Sustainability: Informality in property registration and transfer – development of an integrated socio-technical process (tool) for reformalizing the informal. Sea shore cadastral issues - reducing the property ownership/rights uncertainty at the land-sea interface Land Restitution - tracking cases of land restitution with a view to informing methods, structures and processes Fiscal Cadastres – CAMA systems Computer assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) of land values has many advantages. Research in modelling the value of landed property and measuring performance of such systems is ongoing. PhD work focussed on the GV2000 at the City of Cape Town, and this is currently in the process of being published in journal papers. PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2003 Roux, L., Barry, M. and Whittal, J. (Accepted Abstract), Analytical Methodologies to Guide Interventions in Informal Settlements, FIG Working Week 2009, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009. Whittal, J (2008), Fiscal Cadastral Systems Reform: A Case of the General Valuation Project 2000 in the City of Cape Town, PhD Thesis, University of Calgary, Canada Link to Doctoral Thesis pdfBarry, M, D Dewar, J Whittal, I Muzondo (2007), Land Conflicts in Informal Settlements: Wallacedene in Cape Town, South Africa, Urban Forum 18(3), Sept 2007, p171-189. Musekiwa, T, J Whittal (2006), Analysis of impact of location factors on CAMA models, Journal of the South African Institute of Valuers, October 2006. Whittal J, and M Barry (2006), Theoretical Approaches to Implementation of Technology for Cadastral Reform, Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association for Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference on Promoting Sustainable Land Management in Africa, March 2006, Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Kahonde, J and J Whittal (2005), Towards the modelling of view for property valuations through the use of GIS and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis techniques, Proceedings of the AfriGIS Conference, October 2005, Pretoria, South Africa. Whittal, J and M Barry (2005), A Framework for Analyzing Change Management in Geomatics Development Projects, Proceedings of the FIG Working Week 2005 and GSDI-8, Cairo, Egypt April 16-21, 2005 Whittal, J and M Barry (2004), Fiscal Cadastral Reform and the Implementation of CAMA in Cape Town, Proceedings of the 3rd FIG Regional Conference, October 3-7, 2004, Jakarta. Session TS13 Commission 7: TS13.3: Land Administration in Post-Conflict Areas, Tuesday 5 October 2004, 15:30 – 17:00; also in the proceedings of the FIG Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure: "New legal frameworks and tools" - UN-Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya, 10 - 12 November 2004. Whittal, J, I Muzondo, D Dewar, M Barry (2004), Informal Settlements – Breeding Grounds for Conflict, South African Reconciliation Barometer: Tracking Socio-Political trends, Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2004, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation Muzondo, I, M Barry, D Dewar, J Whittal (2004), Land Conflicts in Informal Settlements: Wallacedene in Cape Town, South Africa, Proceedings of the FIG Working Week May 22-27 2004, Athens, Greece. Barry M and J Whittal (2003), The Geomatics Curriculum at the University of Cape Town: A Model for Developing Countries. Federation Internationale des Geometres (FIG) Working Week, 13-17 April 2003, Paris. Session TS27.4 Education and Life-Long Learning II, Wednesday 16 April 2003, 16:00–17:30. OPPORTUNITIES FOR POSTGRADUATE AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Any interested students to contact me regarding post-graduate research in line with the research themes mentioned. Prospective students should have a first-class four year university degree. Please send your CV, transcripts from all University-level programmes of study, digital copy of your final year thesis or MSc thesis, and a letter of motivation. All students taken on under my supervision will be required to conduct coursework which will include a course in research methods. All students should be registered full-time for the duration of the research-based degree, unless their research project is to be conducted as part of the requirements of their work. Collaborative work with other academic institutions and industry would be welcomed. TEACHING Jenny currently teaches courses in basic and advanced surveying, GPS, cadastral surveying, and land tenure. CADASTRAL WORK EXPERIENCE Senior Land Surveyor at the Cape Town City Council 1992-1996 conducting cadastral and sectional title surveys. Registered Professional Land Surveyor since February 1993. Registered to perform Sectional Title work in March 1994. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Nov 1993 - Mar 1995Council Member of the Institute of Professional Land Surveyors of the Western Cape (IPLSWC) Apr 1995 - Mar 1997 Vice-president IPLSWC Apr 1997 - Mar 1999 President of the IPLSWCof the Institute Apr 1999 - Mar 2001Council member as immediate past President Alternate member of the Education Advisory Committee of PLATO. |
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