At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Lincoln Frost-Hunt, Director of Enterprise IT at Hydro One, gave a riveting presentation on how one utility has evolved from a company that […]
Before we close on the final month of 2013, let’s take a moment to look back on this month’s developments in Canadian geomatics news. These are the top Canadian geomatics stories of November 2013. Please […]
In the view of many the utility industry is in the initial phase of adoption of a new generation of IT characterized by real-time, big data and analytics. I blogged previously about a new application […]
One of the things that has struck me after a number of years travelling and visiting utilities and telecoms world wide is the similarity of the process used to design and manage utility and telecommunications […]
Earlier this year, a CBC report brought to light a disturbing trend among Canada’s student population. Fundamental geographic knowledge (as simple as the locations of continents) is not as instilled in many of today’s college-level […]
The Ottawa Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council last evening hosted a very informative presentation by Jamie Shipley and Thomas Green from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) on lessons learned from CMHC’s […]
South Africa is a net energy importer. It has very limited oil and gas reserves, and has relied on coal and peat for 72% of its primary energy requirements. 67% of its petroleum is imported, […]
The Chang’e-3 mission will land a robotic rover on the moon. The lander’s premier instrument is a wide-angle extreme ultraviolet camera that is intended to monitor the Earth’s plasmasphere, a halo of ionized gases surrounding […]