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2022 Back to School Socials in Pictures – Thank you Sponsors & Participants!

The 7th annual GoGeomatics 2022 Back to School Socials have been a tremendous success. Our groups and group leaders across…

Sparkgeo Uses a Geospatial Lens to Look at Earth’s Issues on a Planetary Scale

Cadell Asks Us To Rescale Our Way of Thinking The keynote speaker for GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference on March 2,…

WGIC Discusses Monitoring GHG From Space Using Commercial Capabilities

Efforts from Public, Private and Hybrid Missions are Key At GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference, attendees were able to view a…

GIS made in Canada – Doug Seaborn’s VISION*

Editors note – This Interview was originally published March, 2016 and republished now as it highlights an important and interesting…

My Bookcase: The Geography of Canada

It’s been three years since I wrote up my top ten list geography books in a post called 50 Years…

2019-2020 Back to School Socials in Pictures – Thank you Sponsors & Participants!

The 6th annual GoGeomatics 2019 Back to School Socials have been a tremendous success.  After coming off the success of…

Using GIS to study health care services and utilization––from local to national

Access to timely and quality health care is an important determinant of health and well-being. Despite universal health coverage in…

A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut

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.

Google Earth Engine – What is a Data Cube and Why Canadians Should Care

What is a data cube and how is it used for big data analytics?  How does a data cube work…

Event in Pictures: COGS Industry Expo 2017

The College of Geographic Sciences (COGS) held the 2017 COGS Industry Expo on March 23 in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. COGS…

CANMAP, and SHIFTing gears at COGS

At the end of last month, John Wian hosted the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the CANMAP Research Institute in…

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