Traditionally when a new pipeline is put in the ground, either its location and depth is only approximately known or it has to be surveyed by a registered surveyor. Now there is another alternative. At […]
A “GDAL Coordinate System Barn Raising” has raised $144,000 to enable improvements to coordinate system libraries needed for the GDAL, PROJ, libgeotiff, PostGIS, and Spatialite open source toolchain. Support came from 25 players in the […]
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 […]
Proposed West Link tunnel under central Gothenburg More and more cities are recognizing the tremendous benefits that a digital twin provides to its planners, private architects and engineers striving for compliance with city ordinances and […]
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 […]
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 […]