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, […]
Tracking climate change with LiDAR Donna Kirkwood, the chief scientist at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), marked the 100-year anniversary of the Petawawa Research Forest with a demonstration of Contour, a 3-D laser scanner. Contour uses […]
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, […]
The UN moves forward with Sustainable Development Goals The United Nations has taken a major step towards sustainability with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda is comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) […]
Canada, like so many other countries around the world, is embracing the idea of smart cities. This spring Industry Canada closed a competition for the Smart Cities Challenge. They describe it as “…a pan-Canadian competition […]
Map of Black Widow Expansion into Canada Scientists are finding evidence of poisonous Black Widow Spiders appearing farther north than ever before. Citizens with smartphones have been snapping photos of the spiders and helping to […]
CCMEO has published a Report outlining Canada’s efforts to develop geospatial capacity at the UN https://twitter.com/AustraliaUN/status/1025474344947015680 Ahead of the Eighth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, the Canadian […]
$150 million Russian satellite to launch by 2025 Russia’s Research and Production Association of Machine-Building has won a contract with Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos to build a new Earth’s remote sensing satellite based of […]