A federal act to streamline geospatial data The USA recently passed Geospatial Data Act is expected to streamline federal government data purchases. Written to prevent duplicative data purchases by federal agencies and modernize the collection […]
UK Government Calls for Launch of Geospatial Strategy: The data revolution The UK has launched the Geospatial Commission to encourage the sector to take part in an evidence gathering initiative that will maximize the value […]
Why is Red River College closing its GIS program? “Low Industry and labour market demand and difficulty attracting students” as well as budget costs to post-secondary schools in Manitoba have been cited as causes in […]
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 […]