Community
Month: September 2016
Newsmakers & Press Releases
CIG Offers Free Membership to all Students at GoGeomatics Back to School Socials
The Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), Gold-level sponsor of the 2016 GoGeomatics Back to School Socials, is happy to announce that all full-time students who attend one of the GoGeomatics Socials this month, will receive […]
Newsmakers & Press Releases
Conference: Where Geomatics Meets GeoScience
With now only one month to go until the 2nd Virtual Geoscience Conference (VGC 2016) takes place in Bergen, Norway, updated details of the event and programme have been released. VGC 2016 is a forum […]
Community
The Importance of Students & Young Professionals in Canada’s Geomatics Community
With the help of our sponsors GoGeomatics Canada is bringing students and young geospatial professionals together at 11 events from coast to coast (Complete list dates & locations is here). Our September Back to School […]
Newsmakers & Press Releases
URISA Heads to Toronto for GIS-Pro 2016
The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with its Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia Chapters, is pleased to share the details of GIS-Pro 2016: URISA’s 54th Annual Conference. The event will take […]
Newsmakers & Press Releases
Earth Observation Represents a $43 Billion Opportunity Over Next 10 Years
NSR’s Satellite-Based Earth Observation (EO), 8th Edition report, released yesterday, projects data, value-added services, information products, and big data analytics from satellite-based earth Observation (EO) to represent a $43 billion opportunity over the next decade. […]
Technology
How Canadian Remote Sensing Was Made Commercially Successful & Exportable
This piece started as a note on some of my experience as an international consultant in remote sensing specifically and geomatics more generally. But as I looked more and more at the role of consulting, […]
Technology
LiDAR in Canada: Conversation with Dr. Chris Hopkinson Research Chair Remote Sensing University of Lethbridge
The author Bob Maher (BM) and Chris Hopkinson (CH) both worked as scientists at the Appied Geomatics Reearch Group (AGRG) between 2004-2011. Five years later, it was time to catch up. Chris is currently Research […]