The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has announced that at 8:48 pm CT on Wednesday evening, March 26, instantaneous output from wind reached a record 10,296 megawatts (10.3 GW). ERCOT also said that at […]
There seems to be a new startup in the Earth observation (EO) satellite sector every couple of months. Many of them rely on very small footprint satellites, typically Cubesats or nanosatellites, to dramatically reduce costs […]
By Bruce Millar & Maria Tretiakova Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 2, Spring 2013 The End of the Beginning After 4 years and 9 months the Pathways project has come to […]
Last night in Crystal City the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) celebrated its first 20 years. To appreciate the OGC’s remarkable achievements it is valuable to look back to where geospatial was before the OGC was […]
TECTERRA is pleased to announce that the GeoConnections program will contribute $350,000 of funding support to TECTERRA. The funding will be used to develop highly innovative geomatics technology products demonstrating advanced use and promotion of geospatial […]
GoGeomatics Canada is presenting a free day-long seminar for QGIS in Ottawa April 5th at the Sunnyside library. QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public […]
The latest Global Wind Report Annual Market Update 2012 from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reports that the 2012 global wind power market grew by more than 10% compared to 2011. Nearly 45 GW […]
EarthCube is community-led cyberinfrastructure that will enable data sharing across the geosciences. Its aim is to develop a framework to assist researchers in understanding and predicting the Earth system from the sun to the center […]