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Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Global Navigation Satellite Systems: The proliferation of satellites

GPS (Global Positioning System) – United States Operational Date: 1978 (Initial operational capability), 1995 (Full operational capability) GLONASS (Global Navigation…

Natural Resources Canada Presentation at LidarCANEX YouTube

NRCan Presents Positioning Lidar & the Canadian Geospatial Industry for the Future at Lidar CANEX 2023

Dr. Calvin Klatt, PhD, Natural Resources Canada’s Director Canadian Geodetic Survey spoke on Positioning Lidar and the Canadian Geospatial Industry…

Global Positioning System (GPS): How does it Work?

I recently read about the delay of China’s BeiDou mission and how, instead, China chose to launch a fifth satellite…

Your Global Geospatial Briefing for June 4th: Free Sentinal-2 images; GEO Business; Hexagon and Klau Geomatics; Gaofen-6; Galileo second generation

ESRI users will receive Sentinel-2 Image Services free  Imagery from the Earth Observation Satellite Sentinel-2 is available through the Living…

New Galileo navigation system is experiencing clock failures

  Since December 15, 2016, the new Galileo global satellite navigation system has been up and running. Unfortunately, there are…

The 5 most interesting things that happened in geomatics in 2016

Let’s take a step back and have a look at what happened this year. To be honest, it was pretty…

GPS Galileo taking flight: ten satellites now in orbit

Europe’s own satellite navigation system has come a step nearer to completion, with Galileo 9 and 10 which lifted off…

Wanted – A GNSS Puck

“I want it! I want it! I want it!” – “Magic Bus” – The Who The Glass Floor. There is…

Science Minister Visits Geomatics Researchers at University of New Brunswick

The federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, Ed Holder, visited the University of New Brunswick on 28 July…

Vineyard Site Suitability Using Multi-criteria Evaluation

“Wine is light held together by water” – Galileo Preamble…. Beginning in my third year at Brock, I found myself…

Inside TECTERRA’s Investing in Innovation Event!

Hello GIS, Geomatics, and Remote Sensing Friends! In February, I was given the opportunity to attend TECTERRA’s Investing in Innovation:…