GoGeomatics Canada had its first Vancouver social just this past June. Between now and then, two wonderful things happened. First, we successfully formed a group composed of Geomatics students, professionals, business professionals, and job seekers who […]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has reported to state regulators on its progress in modernizing the electric grid to improve safety and reliability while delivering energy and cost savings to customers. PG&E intends to […]
Gartner defines the “Internet of Things as the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and interact with their internal states or the external environment.” In 2009 2.5 billion personal devices “things” […]
The EU has set three goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the catch phrase 20-20-20 by 2020, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% from 1990 levels, increase the share of renewable energy sources in […]
By Peter Willis (www.making-remote-sense.tumblr.com) Considering the speed at which the UAV industry seems to be flying these days, three Remote Sensing students from the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia decided to embark […]
The Internet is a set of open, global standards and perhaps the chief reason for its success is that it is not dominated by any one nation, company or special interest group. The Internet is […]
At the GITA Pacific Northwest Annual Conference in Mukilteo, Washington, Greg Babinski, Finance Manager for the King County GIS Center (KCGIS), gave an overview of benefit-cost analysis of the financial value add of GIS. The […]
I have blogged on previous occasions about the impact of distributed generation and renewable sources of electric power on the traditonal business model of electirc power utilities. In this context the recently released Annual Stakeholder […]