Company Profile

A local company, a world of experience

Southern Mapping Company (SMC) is an air to ground survey, remote sensing, satellite imaging and mapping company established in 2006. The company has made its mark in surveys for companies in the mining, agriculture and municipal sectors, ranging from various mining applications to transport infrastructure, urban and rural developments and surveys for precision farming, roads, power lines and pipelines, to mention a few. The technologies are also used for disaster management, acid mine drainage, biomass and carbon credits, as well as a growing number of new applications, as the public and private sectors become more sophisticated in terms of forward planning based on sound research statistics. Although very much a privately owned South African company, it has conducted client projects in many parts of the world and this experience has added much value to the company’s growth and total offering.

Leading through change management

SMC identifies with and understands the relation between the successful application of technology, data capturing and final delivery of the client’s product. To sustain its position of market leadership, SMC has collaborated with Smartvest, a Black owned investment holding company, to form a new niche service provider for the South African sector – Southern Mapping Geospatial (SMG). Smartvest invests primarily in sectors where the company has knowledge and experience, thereby being well-positioned to add strategic value, as well as assistance through training people in these various technologies.

The consequence of the collaboration between SMC and Smartvest led to the formation of SMG, as South Africa’s first Black owned air-to-ground Lidar survey, remote sensing and mapping company, with the majority of shares in Black ownership. While SMC will make available its technologies to support this new venture in its endeavours to secure new business in South Africa, the SMG contribution will be in the form of entrepreneurial management and leading the new company from the front into existing and new South African markets.

SMG’s market orientation

SMG will be supporting the collective efforts of a step-by-step process, to help realise the broader ambitions in the short, medium and long term. Company management is well informed of the necessity to find answers through technology and talent that will provide the public and private sectors with strategic information, making a difference from both an economic and social point of view.

SMG allows for diversity in all its ranks, and as a result of entrepreneurship and a clear understanding of the needs of ‘Captains of Industry’, will work towards establishing professional relations with all markets who require the services of an integrated aerial surveying and mapping company. Management will go beyond the delivery of the company’s core services and will accommodate client partnerships, to find solutions for applications not surveyed before. The company will engage in existing markets and explore new markets with a mindset not previously experienced in the sector. By providing information and statistics, Government can be assisted with goal achievement

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