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New CSA Group Standard Addressing Snow Load Risks on Infrastructure in Canada’s Far North Now Available for Online Public Review

TORONTO, ONTARIO- – CSA Group, a leading provider of standards development services, today announces that the third of four new…

DigitalGlobe to Announce First Quarter Financial Results on May 1, 2014

— DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, will announce its first quarter 2014 financial…

Carleton Researchers Receive Two of the Prestigious 2014 Killam Awards

Distinguished Carleton University researcher Fraser Taylor has received a coveted Killam Prize worth $100,000, the Canada Council for the Arts…

Satellite Navigation Failure Confirms Urgent Need for Backup

Industry Experts Call for Safeguards After Spectacular Failure of “Russian GPS” CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA and LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwired – Apr 7,…

U.S. Surveying, Geomatics, and Angst

“Not good enough damn it! Not good enough!” – Jean-Luc Picard   Jonathan Murphy, Managing Director of GoGeomatics asked me…

Altus Group Expands Market Share and Service Offerings of Altus Geomatics Through Acquisition of Maltais Geomatics

Altus Group Limited (Altus Group or “the Company”) (TSX:AIF) announced  the acquisition of the business assets of Maltais Geomatics Inc.…

Our Industries Challenges

It’s no secret that our industry is facing challenges, just check out the stories on the various Geomatics groups on…

Additional Input: GoGeomatics Geo-Conundrum about Geomatics Associations

I was recently asked if I believe a Canadian Geomatics trade association is in some form beneficial to the geomatics…

GeoEd: Where Surveyors Can Learn and Connect

Present day technology has the ability to facilitate so many things that it’s sometimes hard to comprehend how fast it…

Surveying in Action – Occam’s razor at Gull River Indian Reserve: The south boundary

By Dr. Brian Ballantyne Surveyor General Branch, NRCan Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 4, Fall 2013…

More Than Just a Name: What The Geomatics Industry Needs to Reach The Public

There has been much written about ‘geo’ terms, and the awareness of them,  in Canada recently.  Jonathan Murphy of GoGeomatics…

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The Top Canadian Geomatics Stories of October 2013

With October at a close, we want to take the opportunity to round up the stories most significant to our…