You're currently viewing an old version of this dataset. To see the current version, click here.

infrastructure_assessments [Draft]

SAEON calculated a series of pressure maps to relate population, economic activity and biomass potential to the distribution of current and planned infrastructure. The infrastructure that was considered included: * Operational and decommissioned power stations; * Planned new energy infrastructure, based in NERSA permits; * Eskom planned and current transmission, distribution, and substation infrastructure; * Agriculture infrastructure - silos; * Sawmills and sugar mills; * Waste water treatment works and solid waste disposal sites. In each case, an assessment was made on the basis of four categories (below or over median): 1. Close to infrastructure, and high density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (possibly problematic); 2. Not close to infrastructure, and high density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (problematic); 3. Close to infrastructure, and low density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (not problematic); 4. Not close to infrastructure, and low density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (not problematic).

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Feature metadata record on SAEOSS landing page? false
DOI 10.15493/BEA.DATA.10000060
Metadata Standard
Metadata record responsible party
Individual name
South African Environmental Observation Network
Position name
Organisation
Role
resource provider
Electronic mail address
Website URL
catalogue.saeon.ac.za
Metadata record responsible party contact info
Phone
Facsimile
Metadata record responsible party contact address
delivery Point
City
Administrative area
Postal Code
Topic category and SAEOSS theme
Topic Category
Environment
Metadata and Metadata record language and character set
Dataset language
English
Dataset character set
UTF-8
Metadata language
English
Metadata character set
UTF-8
Lineage statement SAEON calculated a series of pressure maps to relate population, economic activity and biomass potential to the distribution of current and planned infrastructure. The infrastructure that was considered included: * Operational and decommissioned power stations; * Planned new energy infrastructure, based in NERSA permits; * Eskom planned and current transmission, distribution, and substation infrastructure; * Agriculture infrastructure - silos; * Sawmills and sugar mills; * Waste water treatment works and solid waste disposal sites. In each case, an assessment was made on the basis of four categories (below or over median): 1. Close to infrastructure, and high density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (possibly problematic); 2. Not close to infrastructure, and high density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (problematic); 3. Close to infrastructure, and low density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (not problematic); 4. Not close to infrastructure, and low density of population, economic activity, or biomass potential (not problematic).
Metadata record point of contact
Individual contact name
Wim Hugo
Role / Position of the contact individual
Organisation role
point of contact
Electronic mail address
curation@saeon.nrf.ac.za
Metadata record point of contact additional info
Contact point phone
Contact point facsimile
Metadata record online information
URL
https://catalogue.saeon.ac.za/records/10.15493/BEA.DATA.10000060
Name
Infrastructure Assessments
Application profile
Description
information
Distribution format
Metadata record distribution format name
Electronic metadata record
Metadata record distribution format version
1.1
Spatial parameters
Spatial resolution equivalent scale
N/A
Spatial representation type
Vector (vector data is used to represent geographic data)
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG: 4326
Additional information about Reference Systems (temporal, vertical)
Reference date
Reference date 1
Reference datetime
2015-01-01T00:00
Reference date type
Creation
Metadata stamp date 2025-10-16T00:00
Metadata record thumbnail