The Department of National Defence has launched a new Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security challenge focused on one of the emerging questions of the AI era: how humans and autonomous systems can work together […]
Teaching drones to think: UVic’s AI-powered aerial mapping system ‘Avoid the honk’: Interactive map helps Waterloo students stay away from Canada geese 33 glacial lakes hidden under the Canadian Arctic mapped Saab dangles sovereign data […]
Collectively Built and Shared I have recently been thinking about the large number of free and open digital resources I use in my daily life. I frequently use tools like QGIS, rely on knowledge resources […]
By Ron Anderson, Chief Innovation & Technology Officer, Edmonton Police Service Canada’s transit systems are the lifelines of our major cities—moving millions of people every day through complex urban spaces. But across the country, a […]
Over the past several years Quebec has been impacted by multiple severe flood events. In 2017 and 2019 much of southern Quebec was flooded and thousands of people were forced to leave their homes. More […]
One fall afternoon, while sharing tea with my grandmother, she remarked, “They’re talking about measles again. I thought we got rid of that.” She recalled how the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963 led […]
At the National Geomatics Expo in Calgary early November, a rare cross-generational fireside chat brought together three influential voices from the past, present, and future of the profession. Charlie Trimble, founder of Trimble and a […]
Projects built on well studied and understood terrain can combat the risk of catastrophic consequences of natural disasters. A powerful reminder is the 2002 Denali Fault earthquake, a magnitude 7.9 event that tore through the […]