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Canadian Geospatial Digest for March 11th, 2024
MDA, now MDA Space, is making some moves Tent City Nation: Mapping stories of homeless encampments across Canada Geomatics Enables…
CHORUS – A Next-Generation Earth Observation Constellation to Tackle Our Planet’s Biggest Challenges
Access to space-based information, in near real-time, about both natural and human-caused disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, oil spills and flooding,…
MDA Selected as Prime Satellite Contractor for Telesat Lightspeed Advanced Constellation
$2.1B contract for 198 satellites is the largest award in MDA’s history August 11, 2023 (Brampton, Ontario) – MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA), a…
How is MDA and the Government of Canada Addressing Illegal Fishing?
MDA and the Government of Canada are using advanced radar satellites to stop illegal fishing. Illegal and unregulated fishing accounts…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing August 29th
1. Going back to the moon 2. Tracking wildfire smoke 3. MariaDB acquires CubeWerx 4. Mammal movement in Canada 5.…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing July 4th: 1. Carbon soil mapping 2. MDA and NGO for combating illegal fishing 3. Indigenous mapping workshop 4. Deadly Skin Cancer map 5. Mapping Bicyclists’ Greatest Dangers
Carbon soil mapping project aims to help beef producers trap carbon, fight climate change “Our grassland soils hold large amounts…
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…
Panelists Discuss Using Geointelligence and AI to Solve Real World Problems
Maxar Sponsors Panel Discussion at GeoIgnite, Winter Geo During a livestream at the GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference on March 1,…
MDA Introduces Its Next SAR Mission: CHORUS
This Statellite Will Change How You See The World At the GeoIgnite, Winter Geo conference on March 2, 2022, during…
Ukraine at War: Impacts of Geomatics, Geospatial & Earth Observation Technologies
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, sent shockwaves through the global community. As tension escalated in the months…
International Geospatial Briefing March 14th: 1. Amazon Heading Towards “Tipping Point” 2. Rising Geospatial Stars of 2022 3. New Software from Locana for Mobile Workers 4. Enabling Clarity in the Face of Disaster 5. Ukraine: Geospatial Stories from the War
Satellite Imagery Shows Amazon Rainforest Heading Towards Tipping Point New research in the Amazon rainforest shows the alarming rate of…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing March 7th: 1. MDA to Build 17 satellites to Enhance Globalstar’s LEO Constellation. 2. DDC’s new management. 3. DDC’s update on Canary drone testing. 4. Need for RADARSAT in disasters. 5. Cape Breton Highlands image looks like a kitty.
MDA to Build 17 Satellites to Enhance Globalstar’s LEO Constellation According to MDA’s announcement on Feb 24th, this company is…
