Nowadays, satellite remote sensing comes in handy and can now be employed in our day-to-day activities. This technology, with the assistance of GPS and GIS, provides tools and analysis relevant to real-time road mapping and […]
The 2020 Geolgnite conference was put online and brought the Canadian geospatial sector together for some important updates to ongoing work by the federal and provincial governments. One of the topics discussed was the NRCan […]
You don’t have to spend a lot of money or go back to university or college to learn or improve your GIS and Geospatial Technology Skills It’s a competitive job market, but updating your technology […]
The summer of 2017 marked one of the worst fire seasons in British Columbia’s history. By October, wildfires had covered approximately 1.2 million hectares, prompting the province to spend $649 million in fire suppression costs […]
AI and Facial Recognition, a Geoprivacy Issue More and more, people associated facial recognition technology with privacy issues. However, few think of it as a geoprivacy issue. With most photos now timestamped and geotagged, our […]
This interview is part of a series of interviews spanning the depth and breadth of the Canadian GIS community. We are talking to GIS and geomatics instructors at colleges and universities across Canada. We’ve contacted […]
On July 7, 2017 a series of devastating wildfires began in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. The effects of these wildfires will take much time and many resources to make recovery. GIS can have […]
Flow mapping is a technique to visualize movement of objects of interest between geographic areas. Typical uses of flow maps could be traffic volume, trade balances, or migration. In this article we create flow maps […]