Industry Experts Call for Safeguards After Spectacular Failure of “Russian GPS” CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA and LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwired – Apr 7, 2014) – The world’s global positioning industry watched in disbelief on April 2, 2014, as […]
Recently we, as geomatics practitioners, have witnessed much discussion and debate between colleagues and over a number of social media channels about the Canadian Geomatics Community Roundtable (CGCRT) and specifically the discussion draft of the […]
I was recently asked if I believe a Canadian Geomatics trade association is in some form beneficial to the geomatics community. YES, absolutely, definitely. And I sure hope someone else gets one going soon. Anyone? […]
I am very pleased for our industry that the discussions, led by GoGeomatics, surrounding the term Geomatics has been enthusiastic and roundly presented. For reasons I cannot quickly explain, my mind goes to the basics […]
Unprecedented ice jams led to extensive flooding in Prince George as temperatures dipped to record lows in the winter of 2007/2008. City officials declared a state of local emergency on December 11, 2007, ordering dozens […]
There has been much written about ‘geo’ terms, and the awareness of them, in Canada recently. Jonathan Murphy of GoGeomatics recently summed up many of the age old debates, issues and perceptions in his article […]
When I was in high school I developed an interest in geography as a field of study and perhaps a vocation. However, this all started a lot earlier than that. When I was a child, […]
By Peter Willis (www.making-remote-sense.tumblr.com) Considering the speed at which the UAV industry seems to be flying these days, three Remote Sensing students from the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia decided to embark […]