Since first writing about accelerating world wide initiatives to map underground utilities in 2014 there has been increasing acceleration in the U.S. in technology innovation and development. Motivated by the escalating interest in underground infrastructure […]
Investment in research and development of technology for detecting and mapping underground infrastructure is accelerating. The Common Ground Alliance (CGA) has initiated an annual Common Ground Alliance Technology Report. The report not only describes existing […]
“Oh the Places You will go!” Part 3: “Continuing the COGServation” I’ve been writing a series of articles and interviews highlighting some of the most interesting people I know in the Canadian geospatial community with […]
Automated feature extraction from satellite imagery has made major progress in the last year. Accurate building footprints extracted from high resolution satellite imagery are available from companies such as Ecopia (which has just announced a […]
In the news: Climate data and those who can access it, LiDar mapping at work in the Okanagan, and Business Forecasts for Urthecast and MDA In geomatics news this week, we look at ongoing debates […]
Avec une superficie de plus de 4 millions de km² au nord du 60e parallèle, le Canada possède une des plus vastes régions arctiques de la planète. Depuis des décennies, le Centre canadien de cartographie […]
Land surveying is an exciting Geomatics Career Field that is in high demand and often over looked by many young people when choosing a career path. Land surveyors are involved in many aspects of geomatics including urban and […]
Bert de Bruijn is an Ottawa IT security consultant and founder of the WikiWar Project. Bert is passionate about Crowdsourcing and Geovisualizing War History. A former member of the Canadian armed forces he’s been a […]