Products and Services
Data and Metadata Archive
SAEON offers the ability to archive and publish metadata and datasets in a secure environment that protects the intellectual property rights of the data providers. Metadata accompanies all datasets that are archived or published in our Open Data Platform.
Open Data Platform
SAEON hosts and develops open data systems and applications, which are distributed on an Open Data Platform (ODP). The ODP allows for the publication, discovery, dissemination, and preservation of earth observation and environmental data in South Africa.
Digital Object Identifiers
SAEON is able to issue Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for published datasets through DataCite, making the data available in international catalogues. All datasets with DOIs have quality assured metadata, and can be cited in scholarly publications.
Observation and Instrumentation Protocols
The SEACRIFOG Collaborative Inventory Tool serves to systematically capture information on relevant variables, observation infrastructures, existing data products and methodological protocols.
GIS Tools and Plugins
The team has built a ready to use QGIS Plugin which searches the Carbon Sinks Data Collection and fetches the data from relevant SAEON databases and loads the data into your QGIS map view. The Plugin provides services for querying, sub-setting, and downloading data. We are currently busy extending the plugin to search all SAEON's data sources.
Tracking Progress Towards SDGs
SAEON has embarked on the development of a district-level SDG indicator dashboard tool. The tool links higher spatial and temporal resolution data from a variety of sources to each of the 17 SDGs as well as the National Development Plan (NDP), and Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF).
