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BlackBridge Unveils Concept for its New Mission

Enhanced capabilities, including very high resolution and superspectral bands, will be the new benchmark for commercial earth observation Berlin, Germany…

OpenTreeMap Launches in Edmonton

Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, announces the launch of OpenTreeMap, its collaborative platform for crowdsourced tree inventory,…

Global Humanitarian Organization Uses Satellite Technology to Improve Pastoral Decision-Making in Ethiopia

PCI, in collaboration with World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Ethiopia, is pleased to announced that it has…

MDA to further concept for Canadian Hyperspectral Mission

Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company,…

Geospatial Niagara – Geographic Education Town Hall Meeting

So, what do you do when approximately 8,000 practitioners of the Humanities and Social Sciences domain converge at the university…

New Crown Forest Policy Drives $16.8 Million Investments in the Forests, Mills and Suppliers – 74 Jobs Created

ST. LEONARD, NB, April 7, 2014 /CNW/ – J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) announced today that it will invest $16.8 million…

2014 Canadian Geomatics Events & Conferences

This is our list of Canadian geomatics conferences and events for 2014.  Here you will find events pertaining to GIS,…

Surveying in Action – Occam’s razor at Gull River Indian Reserve: The south boundary

By Dr. Brian Ballantyne Surveyor General Branch, NRCan Reprinted from the Ontario Professional Surveyor, Volume 56, No. 4, Fall 2013…

VGI Data

VGI: the Wild West of Data and GIS

In recent years, high–resolution spaceborne imagery (HRSI), up to 50cm spatial resolution, has become readily available for no cost using…

Lidar / GPS Terrain Modelling for Ice Jam Emergency Response

Prince George BC: Lidar / GPS Terrain Modelling for Ice Jam Emergency Response

Unprecedented ice jams led to extensive flooding in Prince George as temperatures dipped to record lows in the winter of…

More Than Just a Name: What The Geomatics Industry Needs to Reach The Public

There has been much written about ‘geo’ terms, and the awareness of them,  in Canada recently.  Jonathan Murphy of GoGeomatics…

Women in Geomatics: Jaime Simpson – Pipeline Surveying in Alberta

GoGeomatics: We are talking to Jaime Simpson, formerly an Ottawa resident and recent graduate of Carleton University’s Geomatics program. Jaime…