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Satellite Navigation: The familiar blue dot could soon mark a better spot

Getting from point A to point B using your smartphone’s web mapping application with the familiar pulsing blue dot is part of our daily lives — thanks to satellite system receivers that use global positioning systems (GPS) to give location and time information. Positioning technology is evolving, and today a typical smartphone can pinpoint a person’s location within a few metres, which is adequate for most personal use. But for a future that includes autonomous driving, precision agriculture and natural disaster early warning systems, centimetre-level accuracy will be crucial.

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Canada’s caribou at risk: mapping out solutions

Canada’s boreal caribou are running a race against time. Their numbers have decreased by more than 30 percent over the past 20 years, and they are now officially listed as threatened under the federal Species at Risk Act.

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Measuring Lake Ice Thickness From Space (Byte-Sized Science)

Research scientist Joost Van der Sanden explains how his team is developing a method to map the thickness of lake ice cover from space by analyzing a combination of radar satellite imagery and fieldwork data. Information on lake ice thickness supports the operation of seasonal roads that facilitate valuable land transport to isolated Canadian sites (e.g., communities, mines) and can be used as an indicator of climate change.

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Natural Solutions to Climate Change

Natural Resources Canada works with Parks Canada to create a Carbon Atlas.

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Climate change Forestry and insects Maps

Today’s forecast: scattered ice chunks with an 80% chance of flooding

In analyzing the Facebook data collected by the community, Whalen and his colleagues Paul Fraser and Don Forbes are making further discoveries of their own

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Geosciences Maps Natural hazards

Prototype flood map app captures what satellites can’t

A team of scientists at Natural Resources Canada collects data from radar satellite images and produces near-real-time maps for emergency responders during crises such as floods. In order to help validate and update said maps, these scientists developed a new prototype app that could turn smart phone-toting Canadian citizens into supplementary sensors.

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Maps Natural hazards

Indigenous students get creative with geospatial data

Nicole Collison and Kyla Hvatum, two young Indigenous women from Inuvik, used data conversion software to create a Minecraft world of their town’s satellite station facility.

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Satellite Navigation: The familiar blue dot could soon mark a better spot

Canada’s caribou at risk: mapping out solutions

Measuring Lake Ice Thickness From Space (Byte-Sized Science)

Natural Solutions to Climate Change

Today’s forecast: scattered ice chunks with an 80% chance of flooding

Prototype flood map app captures what satellites can’t

Indigenous students get creative with geospatial data

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