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Your International Geospatial Briefing for August 26th: Russia, China Alliance on Navigation Satellites Threatens GPS; Three New Programs Are Added to Hexagon Geospatial Education; The Shift from 4G to 5G Will Change Just About Everything; Elon Musk: “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed,” Experts: Maybe not; Monitoring Wildfire Risk Using Space and AI

26 August 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | 5G

Russia, China Alliance on Navigation Satellites Threatens GPS Russian and Chinese satellite navigation systems have recently stated that their main goals are; augmentations, increasing performance and ensuring the compatibility of GLONASS and BeiDou navigation systems. […]

Sustainable Development Technology Canada funds Ecopia Tech Corporation to map all of Sub-Saharan Africa

22 August 2019 Becka Borody | africa

OTTAWA, Ont., August 22, 2019 – Today, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) , announces a funding partnership with, Ecopia Tech Corporation (Ecopia), to create the first comprehensive digital map of all of Sub-Saharan Africa. This […]

Drones In Canada: the good, bad and ugly of the new tech

21 August 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | Canada

The Doc Zone from CBC has a new documentary out highlighting the rapid expansion of drones and how users both professional and hobbyist are using them. While not a geomatics documentary this is an interesting […]

Toward automating scan-to-BIM for brownfield substations

20 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

With about 55,000 transmission substations in the U.S. and the average age of the transformers in these substations over 40 years old, many substations are going to be refurbished, retrofitted, extended or upgraded. Utilities are […]

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for August 20th, Indigenous Edition: Giant Indigenous Peoples Atlas floor map; Indigenous communities put themselves on the map; Mapping MMIWG; Whose land is it anyway; Google Earth features B.C. Indigenous language in new audio series

20 August 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | Canada

Giant Indigenous Peoples Atlas floor map Canadian Geographic created a giant floor map to accompany an Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada to aloe the population to look at the country differently. This map contains no […]

OGC: What Should the Canadian Geospatial Community do Next?

20 August 2019 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | Banff

Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards Meeting 112th OGC TC meetings Banff, AB, Tuesday September 10th, 2019 10.15 – 14.30 (Mountain Time) All interested representatives from Canadian organisations are invited to attend the Banff meeting, in […]

Canada supports innovative solutions for agricultural and environmental challenges

14 August 2019 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | Agruculure

Climate change is destabilizing our environment and bringing more extreme weather. Farmers and agricultural workers know, first hand, how important a healthy environment is. When droughts, floods, storms, and other extreme weather hits, their livelihood […]

U.S. commercial underground utility locate market estimated at over $1.2 billion

13 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Utility locating involves remote-sensing and safe excavation technologies for identifying, detecting, and labeling the underground utility infrastructure including telecommunication, storm and sanitary sewers, water, electricity distribution, natural gas, cable television, fiber optics, heating and others. […]