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GoGeomatics Picks the Most Important Canadian Geomatics Stories of 2023

The GoGeomatics volunteer editors and writers have selected the most significant stories from 2023 to share and highlight as we…

GeoIgnite 2020 Video: Maxar- Monitoring Arctic Expansion and the Impact of Climate Change with High-Resolution Imager

GeoIgnite is Canada’s national geospatial conference hosted by GoGeomatics Canada. GeoIgnite was held online via Zoom from July 22nd to…

Free Satellite Imagery For You: Sentinel 1 & 2

Sentinel constellations and data products As the ENVISAT program is coming to an end, the European Space Agency has begun…

New Galileo navigation system is experiencing clock failures

  Since December 15, 2016, the new Galileo global satellite navigation system has been up and running. Unfortunately, there are…

Seeing Through Wildfire Smoke in Fort McMurray, Alberta with Infrared Imaging

Images of the massive wildfire that engulfed Fort McMurray, Alberta earlier this year have been seared into our collective consciousness.…

Countdown to Launch: DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite

Final preparations are underway at Lockheed Martin to ship DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for…

MDA delivers maritime surveillance system using RADARSAT Constellation Mission

Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company,…

GPS Galileo taking flight: ten satellites now in orbit

Europe’s own satellite navigation system has come a step nearer to completion, with Galileo 9 and 10 which lifted off…

MDA to provide RADARSAT-2 ground station solution to support land and maritime applications

Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company,…

Intelsat and Azercosmos Partner to Deliver New Satellite at 45 Degrees East

LUXEMBOURG & BAKU, Azerbaijan–Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I), the world’s leading provider of satellite services, and Azercosmos OJSCo., the national satellite…

Expansion at Inuvik Satellite Station Facility from Swedish Space Corporation

The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is increasing its capacity at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility in Inuvik, Canada, with the…