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Canadian Geospatial Digest for August 12, 2024
Jasper officials publish a map and detailed list of all structures lost in the wildfire Flash floods threaten as severe…
Canadian Geospatial Digest for June 17th, 2024
Students ‘walk’ across Canada with Parks Canada giant floor map Canadian Geographic collaborated with Parks Canada to produce a new…
Canadian Geospatial Digest for August 15, 2022
Apple Maps is Coming to Your City this Summer, Satellites show World’s Largest Beaver Dam, Who lives in Canada’s Hottest…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing Feb. 21st: 1. Interactive tool for avalanche risk. 2. Using drones to reforest. 3. Global glacier retreat measured. 4. Drone imitating the peregrine falcon. 5. Communities growing and shrinking in Alberta. 6. Wyvern receives funding for hyperspectral imaging.
Avalanche Canada issues special warning for B.C. and Alberta Avalanche Canada and Parks Canada had issued an advisory for many…
A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut
For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series.
Marine Geomatics Primer: Using UUVs to Take Flight Underwater
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles One of the most interesting things to happen in regards to marine geomatics technology has been the…
Remembering Roger Tomlinson & Early History of GIS in Canada
It’s two years now since Roger Tomlinson passed away. Roger’s and my career path have crossed several times over the…
Geomatics: Discovering history in Canada’s Arctic waters
This article was reprinted with permission from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 3, Summer 2015 By Theresa Nicholsi,…
GIS: Parks Canada Receives Award for Enterprise Approach to Data Management
OTTAWA, Esri Canada User Conference – October 6, 2015 – Parks Canada fosters public understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of Canada’s…
Story Mapping: Haida Gwaii
In my previous blog “Storytelling: Haida Gwaii,” I referenced the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia’s (GANS) mentoring program between myself…
Storytelling: Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii is a rich source for stories. There are many perspectives and many different formats. In the Haida culture…
Government of Canada Unveils 3D Model of HMS Erebus
Data collected by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ Canadian Hydrographic Service used to develop models of HMS Erebus FREDERICTON,…
