If you are new to GoGeomatics, you make have noticed our “GoGeomatics Canada News Briefing” and “Global Location Technology Digest” posts. These are what would on some websites be called a ‘News Roundup’: posts where […]
Tracking climate change with LiDAR Donna Kirkwood, the chief scientist at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), marked the 100-year anniversary of the Petawawa Research Forest with a demonstration of Contour, a 3-D laser scanner. Contour uses […]
New technologies emerge all the time with lightning speed, but not all industries are equal in their rate of adopting the innovation. While fields such as business, medicine and manufacturing are at the forefront of […]
The launch of the Canadian Earth observation satellites (known collectively as the RADARSAT Constellation) has been delayed until February 2019. SpaceX originally planned to send the satellites up for ship location and Arctic observation in […]
GIS is transforming key industries The geospatial data market is expected to grow to $73.9 billion by 2021, benefitting seven key industries in the process: Agriculture, transportation, energy, retail, defence and intelligence, the federal government, […]
MDA, a Maxar Technologies company announced announced the company’s LaunchPad program, which will serve as an entry point for innovative small and medium-sized Canadian companies and academic research groups seeking to collaborate with MDA on […]
Join #Don’tLetGoCanada to preserve our space legacy! Canada has long been a leader in space robotics and science, Earth observation, and satellite communications—but that status is in danger of serious decline. Canadian contributions to space […]
Awards Available To Canadian Students in Geomatics: GIS, Surveying, Geography, Engineering, Remote Sensing, etc… Editors note: If your institution gives awards or scholarships for students and is not listed here please get in touch using […]