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 […]
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 […]
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 GoGeomatics Back to School Socials (BTSS) are at the core of our organization and the driving force behind our goal to build a bigger, better, and stronger geomatics community in Canada. With the help […]
Contracts of over $20M for Deimos Imagery For the first time, the General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a Multiple Award Schedule to a European company in Earth observation: Deimos Imaging, subsidiary of Urthecast. Deimos […]
In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have combined an array of NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where freshwater is changing around the globe and to determine why. The […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on the draft charter of a proposed Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Domain Working Group (DWG). Earth Observation (EO) data captured by satellites has always been ‘big’ but an […]
In our last article on land use in the Greenbelt, we discussed the Places to Grow Act, an Ontario policy envisaged at curbing the effects of urban sprawl and encouraging population growth where it is […]