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Interview: The Crucial Role of Geospatial Data and AI in Building a National Flood Strategy for Canada
Canada has faced a surge of extreme weather events in recent years, with devastating floods impacting communities nationwide. These events…
International Geospatial Digest for Feb 5th, 2024
Climate change could affect major port cities on America’s East Coast Thousands of Emperor Penguins discovered by satellite Unlocking new…
FHIMP Invitation for Proposals: Funding Opportunities for Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Projects
Introduction The Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Program (FHIMP) is a five-year initiative (2023-2028) led by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing November 22nd, 2022
AI aims to prevent a repeat of 2004 Peterborough flood City of Medicine Hat Wins 2022 ESRI special achievement in…
CHORUS Constellation Evolutionalizes How We Understand Climate Change
“CHORUS will evolve our understanding of climate change” CHORUS, MDA’s commercial Earth observation mission and a collaborative multi-sensor constellation, is…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing May 16th: 1. Correlation between BC wildfires and floods 2. NG9-1-1 GIS Validator 3. NRCan migrated petabytes of geo data to the cloud 4. Aerial Imagery Cost-Sharing 5. RCMP using aerial images for missing people
Satellite mapping finds correlation between B.C. wildfires and floods Data scientists at SparkGeo, a geospatial company based in Prince George,…
Building Software Solutions for Climate Change: Closing the communication gap between citizens and trusted authorities before, during, or after a disaster.
A Climate Change Problem: The Communication Gap between Citizens and Authorities At a time of rising climate change impacts, there…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing Nov 29: 1. Mapping Canada’s carbon landscape; 2. Satellite images of Flood in BC; 3. Royal Canadian Geographical Society awards; 4. High-speed internet for rural communities by asset-mapping; 5. Plant health beyond the naked eye
Mapping Canada’s carbon landascape WWF-Canada has conducted new research with the lead of McMaster University’s Remote Sensing Lab scientists to…
How Deploy Solutions can help bridge the communications gap in times of climate change crisis
Our Changing Climate The world we live in is changing, with global warming reshaping climate and causing more frequent, more…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing March 29th: Bringing 18th Century Fort to Life; Self-Driving Shuttle Bus; New Integration Within Cityworks Platform; University of Sherbrooke receives more than $28 million for artificial intelligence research; Real-time water levels now available on district web mapping portal in Muskoka, Ontario; Whole new agricultural revolution
Archaeologist Brings 18th Century Fort to Life with LiDAR and 3D Modeling. Dr. Jonathan Fowler, a Canadian archaeologist at Saint…
Building Software Solutions for Climate Change: Closing the communication gap between citizens and trusted authorities before, during, or after a disaster
A Climate Change Problem: The Communication Gap between Citizens and Authorities At a time of rising climate change impacts, there…
Your Canadian Geospatial Briefing for May 21st: Jim Watson at GeoIgnite; Flood maps; Maxar and DARPA; RADARSAT
Mayor Jim Watson to open GeoIgnite 2019 GeoIgnite is excited to announce that Mayor Jim Watson will be introducing the…
