Recently, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced an extension to the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard that specifies how Climate and Forecast (CF) netCDF datasets are encoded as OGC coverages. This extended standard facilitates […]
Due to a foreseeable increase in the demand for UAV acquired aerial imagery in resource management, various firms are already operational and are planning further investments in UAV technology. One such consulting firm implementing UAV […]
Geocoding is the process of converting a street address into a physical location that can be described with a pair of geographic coordinates. It is estimated that over 40% of the world population is physically […]
The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks public comment on a candidate standard that may replace legacy coordinate systems” [1]. In other […]
The development of infrastructure and dense urbanization along water courses and the increasing severity of storm events has brought to focus the need for methods for evaluating the potential negative impact to communities. While many […]
Elevation Web Services: Limitations and Prospects Elevation data is necessary for a wide range of geospatial applications such as creating relief maps and rendering 3D visualizations, deriving the slope and aspect of a geographic area, […]
Four hundred and fifty years ago, the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator presented the most popular map projection ever. It became fairly the standard projection for nautical maps because of its ability to represent […]
VANCOUVER – PhotoSat is pleased to announce that the elevation data processed from DigitalGlobe’s new 30 centimeter resolution satellite, WorldView-3, has been verified as accurate to within 15 centimeters. DigitalGlobe is a leading global provider of […]