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 […]
by Ed Kennedy and Evert Kenk. Is there value in formalizing definitions for both the Geomatics Sector and Geospatial Community that capture a meaningful relationship between the two? The ongoing Geomatics versus Geospatial debate once […]
Here in Canada, there are many geomatics acronyms that get tossed around. During the recent “Team Canada” event that the CGCRT put on, more than one participant was scratching their heads, asking questions like…what is […]
Corrina Vester, Canadian Geo-Secretariat Coordinator at National Resource Canada, and Ann Martin, the Director of National Resource Canada’s GeoConnections* program, will be talking about the Canadian Geomatics Round Table (CGCRT) at the next Ottawa GoGeomatics […]
In recent years, high–resolution spaceborne imagery (HRSI), up to 50cm spatial resolution, has become readily available for no cost using such applications as Google Earth and Bing Maps. Thanks to this new availability of free […]
Great debates about the terms geomatics, geospatial, geoinformation and geoscience have occurred for decades. Additional terms like geoanalysis, geolocation, geocomputation and spatial data infrastructure are mixed into the slurry of ‘geo-ness’. There are even ‘invented’ […]
GoGeomatics Canada got in touch with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) in order to ask them about all the most recent goings on over there on Booth Street in Ottawa. Michelle Viau, the Communications Advisor in […]