Beginning in 2006/2007 a number of national governments including Finland, Norway, U.S., U.K., France, Singapore, Russia and others began mandating building information modeling (BIM) for public construction projects. Although the private sector in Canada has […]
I thought it would be worthwhile to include here an expanded version of my contribution to a webinar that IQGeo presented last week with a provocative title that I think goes right to the nub […]
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Underground utility damage during construction is a major safety problem and drag on economies in many countries. The technologies that are currently considered best practices for detecting underground utilities have been used for decades and […]
Currently autonomous vehicles with some exceptions rely on on-board sensors for the detailed aspects of navigation. But many believe that high precision maps, which contain significantly more detailed information and true-ground-absolute accuracy than current road […]
I thought it would be worth while to include here the plenary talk I gave at GeoIgnite 2019 in Ottawa about the growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM + geospatial approach to […]
Canada’s first synthetic aperture radar satellite was launched in 1995. Since then Radarsat-2 was launched in 2007 and continues to operate. In June of this year the Radarsat Constellation (RCM) was launched. At the GeoIgnite […]
Deep learning is increasingly finding practical applications using geospatial data, specifically, satellite imagery. At the GeoIgnite conference in Ottawa, Nicolas Martinez of Statistics Canada described a project scheduled to kick-off in July to use machine […]