The Earth Observation (EO) Summit 2017 brings together in one exceptional event the 38th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (CSRS), the 17th Congress of the Association QuĂ©bĂ©coise de TĂ©lĂ©dĂ©tection (AQT), the 11th Advanced SAR (ASAR) […]
This year Canada will celebrate its 150th birthday on July 1st. Most of you, like me, will be out celebrating with friends and family, enjoying the amazing firework displays. Therefore, in honour of Canada’s 150th […]
High Resolution Coastal Zone Mapping This collaborative effort by GANS & the CIG will engage the geospatial community & increase awareness on the value that geospatial data provides to effective decision making January 30, 2017 (Halifax, NS) – Next week […]
what3words, the multi-award winning location reference system, has today announced that six national mapping agencies have adopted 3-word addresses. Used to input and share locations within national online geoportals, what3words is making it simpler for […]
When construction began on Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort in 2001, the spectacular natural surroundings belied a particularly difficult problem for the construction companies tasked with erecting the 107-meter tall hotel tower. Situated directly near the […]
Final preparations are underway at Lockheed Martin to ship DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a Sept. 15 launch. The Lockheed Martin team is completing final satellite testing and checkout […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Goodchild and talk about his book and Geography. Michael was my graduate student supervisor in Geography at the University of Western Ontario between 1969-72 and […]
The writer and his wife, Heather Stewart visited grandchildren in Iqaluit for three weeks in April During the first week in Iqaluit, we went to a public lecture by David Pelly on his new book […]