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Positioning Lidar and the Canadian Geospatial Industry for the Future
Lidar CANEX is Canada’s commercial lidar expo online. This is a free event for participants where they can see the…
Canada’s WildFireSat: Giving Fire Fighting a Helping Hand
Each year in Canada, 7500 wildfires burn 2.5 million hectares (about the size of Nova Scotia). That number is projected…
Join Us for Lidar CANEX: Registration is Open!
Registration for Lidar CANEX is open! Canada’s Lidar Expo is coming to you on April 25th, 2023, including a workshop…
Diversity in Leadership: GoGeomatics Interviews NRCan’s Will Mackinnon
Diversity enhances more than just innovation and creativity. To show the importance of diversity, GoGeomatics has created a series highlighting…
CANADA’S NATIONAL ELEVATION DATA STRATEGY UPDATE NOVEMBER 2022
Fall 2022 LIDAR ACQUISITIONS 2022 IN SUPPORT OF THE FLOOD HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING PROGRAM (FHIMP) Flood hazard maps are…
Diversity in Leadership: GoGeomatics Interviews NRCan’s Carla Jack
Diversity enhances more than just innovation and creativity. To show the importance of diversity, GoGeomatics has created a series highlighting…
NV5 Geospatial Supports Natural Resources Canada in Topobathymetric Lidar Survey of South and North Saskatchewan Rivers
Over the last decade, a growing number of municipal and regional governments across North America have invested in topobathymetric lidar…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing May 16th: 1. Correlation between BC wildfires and floods 2. NG9-1-1 GIS Validator 3. NRCan migrated petabytes of geo data to the cloud 4. Aerial Imagery Cost-Sharing 5. RCMP using aerial images for missing people
Satellite mapping finds correlation between B.C. wildfires and floods Data scientists at SparkGeo, a geospatial company based in Prince George,…
NRCAN Leading Initiative to Increase Canada’s Resilience to Flooding
Geomatic Services Playing Key Role in Initiative On March 1, 2022, Brian Perry, Engineering Advisor for flood modeling with Natural…
CANADA’S NATIONAL ELEVATION DATA STRATEGY UPDATE
Fall 2021 LIDAR ACQUISITIONS 2021 The 2021 LiDAR acquisition period is already coming to an end. In addition to integrating…
The Canadian Geodetic Survey – Supporting Accurate Geospatial Positioning in Canada
NRCan’s Canadian Geodetic Survey is responsible for defining, maintaining, and providing access to the Canadian Spatial Reference System (CSRS). In…
YouTube: “Why is an AI company designing Canada’s hydro database?”
Vancouver-based cognitive AI company Minerva Intelligence is working on the first major update to the Canadian National Hydro Network (NHN) since…
