Southern Mapping Co (Pty) Ltd | 39 Kingfisher Dve, Fourways, Sandton, 2055, Gauteng

Southern Mapping Geospatial (SMG) is a leader in providing topographic surveying and mapping for a variety of industries and sectors. The company combines aerial LiDAR, hyperspectral and thermal technologies to produce highly accurate data used to create plans and maps.n 2013, Southern Mapping (SMC) was contracted by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) of Berlin, Germany, to fly 216 discrete areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of a programme to estimate carbon storage in the tropical forest. WWF, in conjunction with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA, set out to map the spatial patterns of the forest and to calculate the amount of carbon stored in the above ground trees.Carbon estimates in tropical forests are often calculated based on a relatively few intensively measured plots extrapolated to full coverage using aerial or satellite data. In many cases the calibration and control measures are not adequate in either quantity or in spatial distribution. This project ai