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Canadian Geospatial Digest for September 9th, 2024
McElhanney Wins 2023 Award of Excellence: A Big Win for Canada’s Geomatics Sector Mapping Montreal’s Bike Paths: GIS on Two…
CHC Navigation joins the Calgary 2023 GoGeomatics Expo
GoGeomatics Expo Welcomes CHC Navigation (CHCNAV) is a global provider of innovative GNSS navigation and positioning solutions covering a wide…
Past, Present and Future of Marine Navigation
I have often wondered how marine navigation works on a roadless map of open seas and oceans. Let’s dive into…
Low Earth Orbit Satellites for Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Xona Space Systems is on track for a dedicated constellation of LEO satellites to provide resilient positioning, navigation, and timing…
Alternate GPS/GNSS/PNT – Orolia
Positional continuity, precise and traceable time, testing and simulation—key elements of multi-layered alternate PNT solutions. What is Alt PNT? What…
International Geospatial Briefing Nov 8: 1. ESA Satellites to Track Greenhouse Gases; 2. Tracking Worldwide Food Insecurity; 3. Next-Generation Navigation Systems; 4. Cancer-Causing Air Pollution in the U.S.; 5. Smart Building Technology Post COVID-19; 6. Remote Monitoring of Construction Projects
European Satellite Constellation to Track Greenhouse Gas Emissions During the U.N Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last week, the…
Non-GPS PNT – NextNav
Beacons of Hope for Positioning, Navigation and Timing Alternatives Whenever we hear people talk enthusiastically about 3D digital twins, real-time…
Ultra-Wideband’s Edge for Indoor Navigation and Positioning
Can UWB technology yield sub-centimeter positions indoors? Yes, and there are many more applications as well. We examine this Alternate…
The Innovation of Geocoding
According to Esri, a geocode transforms a description of a location to a real location on the Earth. The description…
Progress in Addressing GPS/GNSS Vulnerabilities
An overreliance on GPS/GNSS for positioning, navigation and timing applications underscores key vulnerabilities. Defense, security, safety, commerce, and critical infrastructure…
UAV Surveys – How to Ensure Accuracy and Precision
For the past four years, I’ve been involved with the capture and delivery of data derived from drones. My experience…
Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico: My Canadian Geomatics Career
I often contemplate what it would have been like working at the same job for an entire career. Mind you,…
