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Elevation Web Services: Limitations and Prospects
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, […]
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MDA to operate Canada’s ground station infrastructure and expand its international business
Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a global communications and information company, today announced that it has signed a contract for CA$7.4 million with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). MDA will provide In-Service Support […]
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GeoAlliance: NRCan’s Sisyphus
Want to learn more about this issue? Check out these articles: CGCRT/GeoAlliance: Getting off on the Wrong Foot CGCRT Says “GeoAlliance” – Take it or Leave it
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Submit Your Questions on the Canadian Geomatics Environmental Scan
GoGeomatics is busy preparing for the soon-to-be released Canadian Geomatics Environmental Scan and Value Study. A summary report synthesizing the findings of these two studies has recently been made public, and it’s already bringing up […]
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Summary Report: Canadian Geomatics Environmental Scan & Economic Value Study
NRCan has released a summary report synthesizing the findings of two long-anticipated studies that will illuminate the status of the Canadian geomatics sector. Prashant Shukle, Director General, CCMEO, Earth Sciences, NRCan, in his foreword to […]
Technology
NRCan & GoGeomatics Ottawa: First Public Talk of the Open Federal Geospatial Platform
Students, professionals, and senior executives in Ottawa were privileged to get to hear about the Federal Geospatial Platform in it’s first public discussion, on February 27th at the Ottawa Social. Andrew Moore, the Manager of […]
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CGCRT Says GeoAlliance – Take it or Leave it
As one of the former team members, and until last fall a volunteer of the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table (CGCRT), I am going to interpret and analyze the most recent communications from the CGCRT, […]