Canada has faced a surge of extreme weather events in recent years, with devastating floods impacting communities nationwide. These events have highlighted the urgent need for comprehensive flood management and climate adaptation strategies. Joanna Eyquem, […]
Climate change could affect major port cities on America’s East Coast Thousands of Emperor Penguins discovered by satellite Unlocking new possibilities through geospatial data URISA’s GISCorps 2023: The Year in Review ESCAP Tool Supports Geospatial […]
Introduction The Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Program (FHIMP) is a five-year initiative (2023-2028) led by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) with the goal of enhancing flood preparedness and planning in Canada. This five-year program, spanning […]
AI aims to prevent a repeat of 2004 Peterborough flood City of Medicine Hat Wins 2022 ESRI special achievement in GIS award TCS, UofT team up with plan to create ‘urban data sets’ for smart […]
“CHORUS will evolve our understanding of climate change” CHORUS, MDA’s commercial Earth observation mission and a collaborative multi-sensor constellation, is gathering a lot of interest in the geospatial community. The idea was introduced at GoGeomatics […]
Satellite mapping finds correlation between B.C. wildfires and floods Data scientists at SparkGeo, a geospatial company based in Prince George, BC, produced a series of maps to point out 2021 wildfires and damaged highways by […]
A Climate Change Problem: The Communication Gap between Citizens and Authorities At a time of rising climate change impacts, there is a vital and growing need to prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural […]
Mapping Canada’s carbon landascape WWF-Canada has conducted new research with the lead of McMaster University’s Remote Sensing Lab scientists to measure the stored amount of carbon in Canada’s landscape. The findings show that stored carbon […]