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NetCDF: a growing standard for encoding georeferenced data in binary form
Recently, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced an extension to the OGC CF-netCDF 3.0 encoding standard that specifies how…
Canadian Municipalities Unlock Their Data with Esri’s ArcGIS Open Data
TORONTO—April 25, 2016—Esri Canada today announced that more than 20 Canadian municipalities have adopted ArcGIS Open Data. Esri’s cloud-based geographic…
Putting Map Making Back Into the Hands of the Community
On April 7th, I attended the community mapping showcase at the NSCC Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). This project is…
Teledyne to Acquire CARIS
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyne”) and CARIS jointly announced that the CARIS business and its international affiliates (collectively, “CARIS”) have…
Part 2: Preparing for the Esri Desktop Associate Exam
Last month in Part 1 of my series I shared my reasoning on why I wanted to try for the…
2016 Student UAS Competition- Phase 1 Winners
Phase 1 of the 2016 Student UAS Competition is complete. A judging panel, comprised of Canadian subject matter experts, has…
Teledyne Optech upgrades Lynx SG with 600 lines per second and real-time LAS file output
February 23, 2016 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce two critical performance upgrades designed to once again give a…
Optech Titan wins Grand Award and Award for Technology Innovation at MAPPS 2016
February 9, 2016 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that its Optech Titan multispectral airborne lidar has won both…
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…
CDOs: Pressing the Need for a Chief Data Officer
Information Communications and Technology (ICT) is just like a human body. There is hardware (the bones and organs) as well…
Discrete Global Grid Systems – A new OGC standard emerges.
The beginning of 2016 was accompanied with a sonorous press release from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) entitled: “OGC® seeks…
PCI Geomatics to Hold User Group Meeting in Ottawa, Canada
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, will be holding a User Group…
