Maritime

Canadian BIM and Digital Twin Digest for September 8, 2022

In this Digest: BIM Academy Selected to Deliver Digital Strategy for $1.72 Billion Hospital Redevelopment Project, Kongsberg Digital Transforms Maritime…

MDA Introduces Its Next SAR Mission: CHORUS

This Statellite Will Change How You See The World At the GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference on March 2, 2022, during…

Maxar Technologies Gives Us a New Ocean View From the Crow’s Nest

Maxar’s Maritime Monitoring System is Filling the Need Protecting our seas has become a bit easier. As part of Canada’s…

RADARSAT Constellation Mission: From Design to Launch to Operation

It has been well over two years since the launch of Canada’s most recent space mission, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission…

MDA and Nanowave join forces to produce an innovative radar satellite payload

MONTREAL,  MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.), (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), today announced that it…

A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut

For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series.

Free Satellite Imagery For You: Sentinel 1 & 2

Sentinel constellations and data products As the ENVISAT program is coming to an end, the European Space Agency has begun…

Eastern Canada

Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico: My Canadian Geomatics Career

I often contemplate what it would have been like working at the same job for an entire career. Mind you,…

A List of Geospatial Open Data Resources in Canada

Recently, I read an article about the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) that seeks to explain why the CGDI, among many…

MDA to deliver space-based SAR for broad-area maritime surveillance

Vancouver, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company,…