Your International Geospatial Briefing for September 14th: Where the GISP’s are; China’s new Earth Observation Sattelite; COVID-19 push to aerial surveying; Interdisciplinary data-driven approach; Interactive historic map that shows your hometown’s location 750 million years ago

14 September 2020 GoGeomatics Canada | 3D visualizations

A Look at where the GISPs are Dr Dapeng Li, an assistant professor at South Dakota State University, and a couple of researchers examined the characteristics and spatial patterns of the Geographic Information Systems Professional […]

Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for October 16th: #DontLetGoCanada; Australia + UK + Canadian Space Agency; Fogo Island; Alberta UAVs; Climate change impacts Atlantic Canada

16 October 2018 GoGeomatics Canada | Airbus

Join #Don’tLetGoCanada to preserve our space legacy! Canada has long been a leader in space robotics and science, Earth observation, and satellite communications—but that status is in danger of serious decline. Canadian contributions to space […]

Your Global Geospatial Briefing for June 18th: Kepler.gl; CSIRO Centre for Earth Observation; Smart cities in Nepal; UPS; Blockchain

18 June 2018 GoGeomatics Canada | Australia

Will a new Geospatial Analysis tool from Uber challenge traditional GIS software? Kepler.gl is Uber’s new “data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data set”. With no need for coding, Kepler.gl is […]

Google Earth Engine – What is a Data Cube and Why Canadians Should Care

19 April 2017 Sabina Zaidi | 2012

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 […]

The Future of GIS Software? QGIS A Popular Open-Source GIS for the Masses

16 January 2017 Francis Guo | 2015

In today’s geomatics society, ArcGIS, developed by Esri, is a giant and dominates the GIS software market. However, there are some other great and powerful GIS software applications. QGIS is a typical GIS application among […]

The Most Fun You’ve had with Geomatics: ‘Pokémon Go’ Comes to Canada

19 July 2016 Jon Murphy | articles

The geospatial community has been “abuzz” since a game called called “Pokémon Go” landed on cell phones in Australia and New Zealand. Yesterday the game became available in Canada for download on the Google Play […]

Teledyne to Acquire CARIS

15 April 2016 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | 2016

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyne”) and CARIS jointly announced that the CARIS business and its international affiliates (collectively, “CARIS”) have agreed to be acquired by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teledyne. CARIS, headquartered in Fredericton, New […]

Canadian Firm exactEarth Invests in Satellite ‘Internet-of-Things’ Technology Company

23 November 2015 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | 2015

Cambridge, ON – November 23, 2015 – exactEarth Ltd., the leading provider of Satellite AIS data services, announced today that it is investing AUD $2M to secure a minority ownership position in technology company, Myriota […]