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…
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…
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…