A Concerning Ontario Data Strategy Teresa Scassa, a professor from the University of Ottawa, has written an interesting piece on her blog about the latest update on the Ontario data strategy. To create economic opportunities […]
NCSA has announced they will be collaborating with the Blue Waters Project, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, University of Minnesota and Ohio State University to produce digital elevation models of the entire earth. This new collaboration will […]
AT&T prepares for 5G 5G is part of an oncoming data storm. 5G will be connected to autonomous cars, robotic factories, and seamless AR/VR, and it will require a faster, more efficient network. To that […]
Canada’s only operational radar satellite has just lost its gyroscope, and the WorldView-4 satellite is down for the count. Maxar’s RADARSAT-2 was launched December 14, 2007, with an anticipated life span of seven years. The […]
Part of the GoGeomatics mission is to showcase the best of the Canadian geospatial sector in Canada and around the world. To that end I’ve put together my list (in no particular order) of the […]
Using Maps to Visualize Gerrymandering in the age of Trump The ACLU’s “What the District?!” map allows users to trace the changing lines of democracy by tracking how local Congressional districts have been drawn, redrawn, […]
The launch of the Canadian Earth observation satellites (known collectively as the RADARSAT Constellation) has been delayed until February 2019. SpaceX originally planned to send the satellites up for ship location and Arctic observation in […]
GIS is transforming key industries The geospatial data market is expected to grow to $73.9 billion by 2021, benefitting seven key industries in the process: Agriculture, transportation, energy, retail, defence and intelligence, the federal government, […]