Technology

An Introduction: GIS and GPS for Precision Agriculture

Have you ever felt lost when someone started talking about precision agriculture?  When people think about a GIS intensive environment,…

Leaks: Using GIS to Explore Canadian Tax Cheaters from the Panama Papers

The Breaking News Last year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists announced that a year prior, one of their members…

Fire GIS Uses Maps, Data, & Social Media–A Hot Tool for BC Residents, Travellers

Every summer in British Columbia, along with long days, sunshine, heat, and little rain comes an all-too-familiar reality: hundreds of…

Using Swipe Maps to View Wildfire Destruction in BC

On July 7, 2017 a series of devastating wildfires began in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. The effects of…

Using GIS to study health care services and utilization––from local to national

Access to timely and quality health care is an important determinant of health and well-being. Despite universal health coverage in…

A Student Perspective: CloudUAV & the Montreal 2017 Earth Observation Summit

Last week, I attended the Earth Observation (EO) Summit in Montreal. It was a gathering of over 600 people from…

Elevation Differences

Grand Lake Meadows New Brunswick: Accuracy Comparison of Elevation Datasets

Grand Lake Meadows (GLM), the largest wetland in New Brunswick. GLM is a historically and ecologically significant area which is…

Cartography & Art: Historic and Ancient Maps

As much a science as an art; cartography makes one wonder how the artist or mathematician-cum-geographer captured the most finite…

Two way arrows

Mapping Migration Flows with QGIS FlowMapper Plugin

Flow mapping is a technique to visualize movement of objects of interest between geographic areas. Typical uses of flow maps…

GeoPackage: A format with database capabilities

A couple of months ago the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) sought public comment [1] on the new version of GeoPackage…

May 16: Thunder Bay GoGeomatics Speaker: Rob Rempel – Research Scientist MNRF

You are cordially invited to our fun free event geomatics networking event on May 16th.  Tuesday, May 16, 2017 –…

Mystery Speaker Revealed for Next Ottawa GoGeomatics Social April 25th

GoGeomatics has swept aside the curtain to reveal Masroor Hussain, Senior Scientist and Software Developer at PCI Geomatics, as the…