Entries by Ted MacKinnon

Lidar Research Focused on Mapping & Modeling in Coastal Zones – Dr. Tim Webster at CCA 2021

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Keynote Presentation from the CCA event titled “2021 CCA Conference – Connecting the Dots for Multi-Dimensional Mapping” held May 26, 2021, where various members highlighted some contemporary discussions on LiDAR technology, web mapping, flood mapping, forestry, and Indigenous mapping in Canada.
Tim Webster provides an overview of the principles of lidar, describing the fundamental properties of the technology and details of various lidar platforms (airborne topographic, terrestrial, mobile, drone, bathymetric).

Geospatial Data Analysis – Anita Graser Keynote Presentation CCA 2021 Annual Conference

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Keynote Presentation from the CCA event titled “2021 CCA Conference – Connecting the Dots for Multi-Dimensional Mapping” held May 25th, 2021. Here Anita Graser demonstrates open source technologies, many that integrate with QGIS, and emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary communication within teams to turn data into insight and understanding.

Empowering the Workforce of the Future with IoT and AI – Steve Liang

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Keynote Presentation from the CCA event titled “2021 CCA Conference – Connecting the Dots for Multi-Dimensional Mapping” held May 25th, 2021. Here Steve Liang shares his vision for using Internet of Things (IoT = sensor network) data, including geospatial data, and intelligent automation (affordable, accurate enough predictions) to help workers focus on tasks requiring higher-level judgement to improve safety, productivity and decision making.

Mapping in Indigenous Contexts

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On October 27th the CCA hosted an online event titled “Mapping in Indigenous Contexts” where we highlighted some contemporary Indigenous cartography, GIS, and remote sensing projects in Canada (Presentation recordings have been linked on this page).

We hope that this will be the first of many short presentation series where cartographers come together to discuss various mapping related topics.

Cartouche 97 – Autumn 2020

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Cartouche 97 includes reports from the CCA annual general meeting, and featured articles provided by various CCA members … [Click here to read Cartouche 97 online or download a digital copy]