MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, announced that the three RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellites developed by MDA for the Canadian Space Agency are performing according to plan. The satellites launched this morning aboard a SpaceX […]
Why is Red River College closing its GIS program? “Low Industry and labour market demand and difficulty attracting students” as well as budget costs to post-secondary schools in Manitoba have been cited as causes in […]
Canadian Red tape costs industry millions Norwegian company Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) has been waiting since 2016 for Ottawa to grant the operating license that will let them run their satellite ground receiving station in […]
With more than 4 million km² of land above the 60th parallel, Canada has one of the largest Arctic regions on Earth. For decades, NRCan’s Canada Center for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) has offered […]
For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series. […]
What is a data cube and how is it used for big data analytics? How does a data cube work with remotely sensed data? Before writing this article I had never heard of a data […]
Sentinel constellations and data products As the ENVISAT program is coming to an end, the European Space Agency has begun the process to develop the Sentinels family of satellites to fulfill the Copernicus earth observation […]
The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation invites you to attend the Arctic Spatial Data Pilot Demonstration Webinar. Managed and organised by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), the Pilot is sponsored by NRCan (Canada Centre […]