What is a data cube and how is it used for big data analytics? How does a data cube work with remotely sensed data? Before writing this article I had never heard of a data […]
For the past four years, I’ve been involved with the capture and delivery of data derived from drones. My experience has provided me with a good perspective on the quality of the data that can be […]
Sentinel constellations and data products As the ENVISAT program is coming to an end, the European Space Agency has begun the process to develop the Sentinels family of satellites to fulfill the Copernicus earth observation […]
In my first article, I introduced the how and why I chose to attend COGS from the fall of 2014 to spring 2016. In Part 2, I wanted to give some insight into the first-year […]
Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin Today I’m going to take a quick look at one of the remote sensing plugins for QGIS. Let’s have a look at what I think is one of the more useful […]
Awareness for climate change has been steadily increasing ever since the Green Revolution in the 1960s. There is a plethora of data, maps, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications available freely or accessible to the […]
The Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) Nova Scotia Branch and the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia (GANS), two regional professional organizations that foster the application of geographic information within the geomatics sector recently collaborated to host a high resolution mapping workshop at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia. […]
Since December 15, 2016, the new Galileo global satellite navigation system has been up and running. Unfortunately, there are some technical difficulties on the horizon, having to do with the clocks that are on […]