GoGeomatics Canada

GoGeomatics Canada’s Online Magazine is your source for the latest news in the Canadian geomatics sector. We publish articles about technology, projects, events, Canadian companies, and interviews with industry leaders. To submit an article to the GoGeomatics Magazine, please email your pitch to [email protected].

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for September 16th: Announcement: GeoIgnite 2020; firefighters using satellite imagery; The Future of BIM; UrtheCast Corp. Closes $6.6 Million Financing; MDA to Design, Manufacture Navigation Antennas for Airbus

16 September 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | Airbus

Announcement: GeoIgnite 2020 June 2019 in Ottawa, ON marked the beginning of a very successful conference, GeoIgnite 2019. Due to the amazing sponsors, exhibitors and delegates, GoGeomatics is coming back with GeoIgnite 2020. Mark your […]

Your International Geospatial Briefing for September 9th: Open source to advance geospatial for multiple sectors; Location Based Policing: New LAPD Technologies. Same Racisms; Buggy GPS Trackers Expose Children’s Real-Time Location; Government investigates matching geospatial data with AI; Building Information Modeling (BIM) Market Getting Ready Deliver Gains

9 September 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | AI

Open source to advance geospatial for multiple sectors Azavea is a B Corporation. A B Corporation is a “… business that meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal […]

NASA: a view of Hurricane Dorian from space

4 September 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | dorian

Satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continue to track its movement and progress. You can see some of the images from those satellite observations above, which have been shared on […]

CanBIM: Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis Through Digital Innovation and Technology

4 September 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | Canada

September 25-26, 2019 Hyatt Regency Toronto370 King Street West, Box 137,Toronto ONM5V 1J9 Undoubtedly one of the biggest challenges facing Canadians today is affordable housing. To address this issue cities will require commitment, investment, and […]

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for September 3rd: Is The GIS Market Vertically Challenged?; StatsCan using satellite data to estimate crop/yield production; Director of Data and Digital for the Government of Canada leaves to join AI Global; MDA Selected to Build Robotic Interfaces for the Canadarm3 on NASA-led Gateway; Teledyne Optech and LiDAR USA partner in dynamic new mobile UAV sensor integration; Drone test flight successfully delivers prescription drugs in Canada for the 1st time

3 September 2019 GoGeomatics Canada | AI Global

Is The GIS Market Vertically Challenged? Will Cadell attended GoGeomatics GeoIgnite event last spring in Ottawa, ON. During his time at this event, he did a presentation suggesting that “geospatial is a horizontal market hidden […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]