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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

Announcement: GeoIgnite 2020 June 2019 in Ottawa, ON marked the beginning of a very successful conference, GeoIgnite 2019. Due to…

Video: How We Measure Glaciers (Byte-Sized Science)

Canada’s landmass and climate supports approximately 20% of the Earth’s glacier ice volume excluding the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.…

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

Open source to advance geospatial for multiple sectors Azavea is a B Corporation. A B Corporation is a “… business…

NASA: a view of Hurricane Dorian from space

Satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continue to track its movement and progress. You can…

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

Is The GIS Market Vertically Challenged? Will Cadell attended GoGeomatics GeoIgnite event last spring in Ottawa, ON. During his time…

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

Russia, China Alliance on Navigation Satellites Threatens GPS Russian and Chinese satellite navigation systems have recently stated that their main…

Multi-Rotor Drone flying in the sky

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

The Doc Zone from CBC has a new documentary out highlighting the rapid expansion of drones and how users both…

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

Giant Indigenous Peoples Atlas floor map Canadian Geographic created a giant floor map to accompany an Indigenous Peoples Atlas of…

Your Global Geospatial Briefing for August 12th: NCSA to help build world’s most powerful geospatial system; Preparing for Hydrographic AI Network and Systems; Radar Image Highlights Growth of Small Satellite Industry; Ghana to host Africa Geospatial Data and Internet Conference; Application of Immersive Technologies in Smart Cities

NCSA has announced they will be collaborating with the Blue Waters Project, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, University of Minnesota and Ohio…

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for August 6th: LeddarTech Defends its LiDAR Patent; MDA Plays a Key Role in Advancing Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Agriculture; AI could help future farmers win competitions; Canada joins intelligence allies to keep 5G networks free from government control

In December 2015, LeddarTech challenged Phantom Intelligence due to illegal use of its LiDAR sensing technology. The settlement was agreed…

Your Global Geospatial Briefing for July 29th: China launches new remote sensing satellites; Arming IoT with geospatial analytics; Ordnance Survey hits legal dispute; Location Analytics & Business Intelligence advisory board announced; Classifying Urban Poor Areas with Satellite Imagery

In Xichang on July 26th2019, a group of new remote sensing satellites were sent into orbit. The satellites have entered…

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for July 23rd: AI Sector in need of data standards; OGC’s Dr. Nadine Alameh receives ‘Diversity in Leadership’ award; The smart cities challenge; Korem Geospatial announces appointment of new president

AI firms are facing many challenges such as; access to capital, access to qualified staff, regulatory hurdles and antiquated procurement…

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