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Canadian Geospatial Briefing May 16th: 1. Correlation between BC wildfires and floods 2. NG9-1-1 GIS Validator 3. NRCan migrated petabytes of geo data to the cloud 4. Aerial Imagery Cost-Sharing 5. RCMP using aerial images for missing people

Satellite mapping finds correlation between B.C. wildfires and floods Data scientists at SparkGeo, a geospatial company based in Prince George, BC, produced a series of maps to point out 2021 wildfires and damaged highways by […]

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Canadian Geospatial Briefing April 18th: 1. Esri Canada program director’s sudden passing; 2. Kanien’kéha mapping project; 3. Indigenous People’s Atlas of Canada; 4. Vernon floodplain maps; 5. Grassland mapping project

Esri Canada’s Program Director killed in small plane crash on March 21st John Bacon, Program Director in Esri Canada’s Geospatial Infrastructure Department passed away on March 21st after a small airplane crashed near the Brantford […]

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International Geospatial Briefing March 14th: 1. Amazon Heading Towards “Tipping Point” 2. Rising Geospatial Stars of 2022 3. New Software from Locana for Mobile Workers 4. Enabling Clarity in the Face of Disaster 5. Ukraine: Geospatial Stories from the War

Satellite Imagery Shows Amazon Rainforest Heading Towards Tipping Point New research in the Amazon rainforest shows the alarming rate of deterioration in one of the world’s most diverse and important ecosystems. Analyses using satellite imagery […]