International Geospatial Briefing Feb 14th: 1. GIS in Transportation; 2. Black Culture Mapped Across the U.S.; 3. Geospatial Trends to Watch in 2022; 4. GIS & Disaster Damage Assessments; 5. Improving Opportunities for Women in Geospatial Careers; 6. Using AI to Measure Antarctic Surface Ice; 7. Tracking Wildfires in the Arctic

14 February 2022 GoGeomatics Canada | Culture

India using GIS to Improve and Expand Transportation Infrastructure India has the second-largest road and rail network in the world, and the logistical costs are higher than other countries of similar scale. These high costs […]

|Notes from Nunavut|HMS Terror (Image: Wikimedia Commons)|Notes from Nunavut

A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut

1 May 2017 Robert Maher | 2012

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. […]

Annapolis Community Mapping April 13 at COGS

29 March 2017 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | Acadia University

1866: a twenty three year old blacksmith from rural Annapolis County who could neither read nor write. 1888: a five year old in India, having lost both parents to cholera, finds himself living in Scotland […]

My COGS GIS Education, Part II

22 March 2017 Richard Davenport | 2012

In my first article, I introduced the how and why I chose to attend COGS from the fall of 2014 to spring 2016. In Part 2, I wanted to give some insight into the first-year […]

My COGS GIS Education

9 March 2017 Richard Davenport | 2014

What About COGS The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is one of the best colleges in Canada for learning GIS. As a COGS graduate myself I am writing this article to help future students make […]

Top Ten Climate Change Maps and GIS Applications

7 March 2017 Priscilla Ancinelli | agriculture

Awareness for climate change has been steadily increasing ever since the Green Revolution in the 1960s. There is a plethora of data, maps, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications available freely or accessible to the […]

Tim Webster and his Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG) team in Halifax

Tim Webster: Interview about Past, Present, & Future: Applied Geomatics Research Group

27 February 2017 Robert Maher | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

Dr. Tim Webster, is a renowned research scientist with the Applied Geomatics Research Group (AGRG) in Middleton, Nova Scotia. He is one of the top researchers in the geomatics sector, specializing in flood risk mapping, shoreline delineation, and […]

High Resolution Mapping Along the Coastal Zone Workshop|Anders Ekelund

Event Recap: COGS & CIG & GANS Cooperate for Mapping Workshop

15 February 2017 Robert Maher | Acadia University

The Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) Nova Scotia Branch and the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia (GANS), two regional professional organizations that foster the application of geographic information within the geomatics sector recently collaborated to host a high resolution mapping workshop at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. […]