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A Canadian Geographer’s Notes from Nunavut

1 May 2017 Robert Maher | 2012

For the last five years, I have annually had the opportunity to spend time in Iqaluit, Canada’s fastest growing community in Canada’s fastest growing territory or province. On arrival, I check out the selection of new books at Arctic Ventures and the screening of new movies about the North. This year, there was the chance to see John Walker’s Passage and to buy a copy of Darrel Varga’s book of the same name in the Canadian Cinema series. […]

Free Satellite Imagery For You: Sentinel 1 & 2

7 April 2017 Muhammad Luqman | 2017

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 […]

My COGS GIS Education, Part II

22 March 2017 Richard Davenport | 2012

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 […]

WEBINAR March 29: GSDI Coastal and Marine SDI Best Practices

21 March 2017 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | 2017

COINAtlantic would like to extend an invitation on behalf of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) Association to participate in their webinar on Coastal and Marine SDI Best Practices—March 29th at 2PM CEST. GSDI Coastal/Marine […]

Toronto & Calgary: Federal Floodplain Mapping Workshop March 28th & 30th

9 March 2017 GoGeomatics Newsmakers | 2017

The Federal Floodplain Mapping Guidelines workshop, hosted by Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) on behalf of the Government of Canada, has been arranged in order to present and gather input regarding the recently developed Federal […]

GNOSIS – A New Geomatics Software Suite

27 February 2017 Ozair Khan | 3D

Creating a new GIS from scratch is a tough undertaking. It involves a lot of innovation. Ecere, a Canadian company based in Gatineau, Québec has been developing a software platform that has positioned them to […]

High Resolution Mapping Along the Coastal Zone Workshop|Anders Ekelund

Event Recap: COGS & CIG & GANS Cooperate for Mapping Workshop

15 February 2017 Robert Maher | Acadia University

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. […]

Software Development – The Key to Ecere’s Success

2 February 2017 Ozair Khan | 2012

It is rare to learn of a GIS company in which much R&D is done up front to create the programming language used to build its tools. Ecere, a Canadian company based in Gatineau, Québec, […]