At present the Republic of South Africa (RSA) under the guidance of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) is formulating a South African Earth Observation Strategy (SAEOS) which will be in line with the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to which South Africa is a signatory and which has as its aim the upliftment of people worldwide through better management of the environment using remote sense data which will be available to all. The acquisition of remote sense data over the South African and African region is therefore of national importance and the satellite data acquired at Overberg Toets Baan (OTB) will support the Department in contributing positively to the aims of this international programme and to achieving one of its strategic objectives i.e. contributing to a better world.