This article was written by Mark Sampson for the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors. Mark’s contact details are at the bottom of the article and here is a direct link. Drones are referred to interchangeably […]
The Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) is pleased to announce its new President, Rodolphe Devillers, PhD, Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where he leads the Marine Geomatics Research Lab, a team […]
Last week, I picked up a copy of Robert MacFarlane’s ‘Landmarks’. I had read all of his previous works and seen reviews of ‘Landmarks’ online from the UK. MacFarlane’s book got me thinking about community […]
Statistics Canada has launched a new pilot project using OpenStreetmap. For many Canadians outside of the geomatics community this is an exiting opportunity. It’s my hope that those members of the public who do volunteer […]
In celebration of Geography Week, it seemed like a good idea to issue a challenge: list the top ten books about Geography ever written. It was modelled on a similar list for History. This is […]
With now only one month to go until the 2nd Virtual Geoscience Conference (VGC 2016) takes place in Bergen, Norway, updated details of the event and programme have been released. VGC 2016 is a forum […]
NSR’s Satellite-Based Earth Observation (EO), 8th Edition report, released yesterday, projects data, value-added services, information products, and big data analytics from satellite-based earth Observation (EO) to represent a $43 billion opportunity over the next decade. […]
This piece started as a note on some of my experience as an international consultant in remote sensing specifically and geomatics more generally. But as I looked more and more at the role of consulting, […]