Technology
Tech Startup Born in University of Calgary Department of Geomatics Sold for $36 Million
Sale of Trusted Positioning Inc. to NYSE-listed company a vote of confidence in Calgary tech sector The sale of…
Mapping the Land Underwater
With the ocean covering a whopping 71% of the Earth’s surface, the ocean floor is largely unexplored. The benefits of…
GIS Technology and the Franklin Expedition: An Opportunity for Our Geomatics Sector
It’s taken nearly 170 years to uncover wreckage from the infamous Franklin Expedition, one of Canada’s biggest mysteries. Last week,…
ArcGIS 10.X Tips and Tricks
ArcGIS is used everywhere so chances are if you are in GIS you have used it before. But even so,…
Discussing the Proposed Pan-Canadian Geomatics Strategy at the University of Ottawa
On April 19th, the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS) and GoGeomatics Canada got together with other members of the Ottawa…
Geomatics in Canada is about to Change: CGCRT Steering Committee Articles
For the past three months, the Steering Committee (SC) of the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table (CGCRT) has been publishing…
Elise’s Journey to her Dream Job in GIS
My name is Elise White. I was born and raised on the island of New Providence, the capital of the…
Hexagon Geospatial Delivering World-Class Solutions
If you didn’t catch our announcement in December on the new Hexagon Geospatial group, please read on! Intergraph’s geospatial technology…
Team Ryerson at the 2014 Spatial Knowledge Information (SKI) Conference in Banff, Alberta
On February 6-9, 2014, Dr. Claus Rinner, Associate Professor of Geography and Program Director of the Master of Spatial Analysis…
NRCan talks to the United Nations about Geomatics
At the end of last year, I came across what I think is an excellent synopsis of what NRCan and…
Surveying in Action – Occam’s razor at Gull River Indian Reserve: The south boundary
By Dr. Brian Ballantyne Surveyor General Branch, NRCan Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 4, Fall 2013…
VGI: the Wild West of Data and GIS
In recent years, high–resolution spaceborne imagery (HRSI), up to 50cm spatial resolution, has become readily available for no cost using…
