From 27 February to 01 March 2018, the GMES Due Diligence process was conducted by the African Union in Windhoek, Namibia, at the SASSCAL offices.

SASSCAL leads a consortium of representatives from the University of Botswana, the University of Western Cape, the South African National Space Agency, the University of Zambia, the Midlands State University and the National Remote Sensing Centre, Zambia, that was awarded the WeMAST (Wetland Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Transboundary River Basins in Southern Africa) project, which aims to put in place a Wetland Information System, Flood Information System, as well as platforms to assimilate vegetation phenometrics, water quality and wetland use.