The conjunction of the release of three UK government reports, Industrial Strategy Building A Britiain Fir for the Future, Transforming Infrastructure Performance, and Data for the Public Good, has set the stage for a transformation in […]
The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) is the Government of Canada’s centre of excellence for geomatics, mapping and earth observations. –NRCan I’m pretty sure my grade three teacher Mrs. Rathwell at Wakefield […]
Deep learning algorithms have been developed by academia and as a result the code for the most part is open source but the successful training of deep networks requires thousands of labeled training samples and […]
Governments are consolidating the role of geospatial data and technology in central governments. I have blogged about the Geospatial Data Act of 2017 in the U.S. Studies of the value of spatial data and technology […]
NRCan empowers citizen scientists during floods When Canadian communities are hit hard by flooding, Vincent Decker’s team of scientists at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) provide first responders and decision makers with the data they need to deal with […]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters into force today. It is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union and the European Economic Area. It […]
Using Australia’s Open Data Cube technology, countries in Africa and around the world are finding new ways to use data to address key development challenges. During the week of May 7-11, countries and organizations gathered […]
The British standard PAS 128 which defines quality levels for the location of underground utilities was released in 2014. It is now up for revision. At Geo Business 2018 in London, Ian Bush of Black […]