This year Canada will celebrate its 150th birthday on July 1st. Most of you, like me, will be out celebrating with friends and family, enjoying the amazing firework displays. Therefore, in honour of Canada’s 150th […]
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles One of the most interesting things to happen in regards to marine geomatics technology has been the development of advanced Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). Think of the UUV as the underwater counterpart […]
The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) is an initiative of Natural Resources Canada that began in 2001. The CGDI does not refer to a specific database, but rather a collection of Canadian geospatial resources available […]
The Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission has just completed a monument restoration survey to restore a number of deteriorated provincial boundary monuments in the Elk Pass area of the Rocky Mountains. The work was undertaken by […]
For this announcement, GeoConnections is focusing funding towards projects that address the following themes: -Innovative adoption and further development of CGDI in Canada’s urban environments (also known as Smart Cities); and -Innovative adoption […]
In celebration of Geography Week, it seemed like a good idea to issue a challenge: list the top ten books about Geography ever written. It was modelled on a similar list for History. This is […]
The Arctic SDI Board, which includes mapping executives from Canada, Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States, recently met in Anchorage, Alaska to further development of a robust Arctic Spatial […]
Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, announced that it has signed a CA$48.5 million (including taxes) contract with the Government of […]