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Glaciers in the Canadian Columbia River Basin are in a state of retreat in response to climate change. Regionally, sparse data limits our ability to understand and quantify present and future changes to the alpine cryosphere.
Canada is one of the signatories on the Convention on Biodiversity and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets. With these ambitious conservation targets, there is a need to better understand the distribution of threats to natural systems across the Canadian landscape. Global footprint maps have shown Canada as relatively ‘wild’ however, the threats mapped represent only a subset of threats relevant to Canada as the country still lacks a national scale cumulative threat study. Mapping threats to biodiversity on a national scale will help determine what systems are most intact and which areas are heavily threatened.
The Executive Committee of the Canadian Cartographic Association was pleased to grant Chris Brackley with the Award of Distinction for Exceptional Professional Contributions to the Practice of Cartography at the 2019 Canadian Cartographic Association Conference in Prince George, British Columbia.
With a total project area of 4363 km2 (more than 1.5 times the area of all of Luxembourg), producing 2136 orthoimages of the area surrounding BC’s Kootenay Lake (clipped to 1:2500 scale tiles at a 10 cm resolution) presented a host of challenges to be identified and surmounted.
The purpose of the Triplicate Prescription Program Atlas is to provide an overview of provincial TPP medication utilization. It presents the data as tables, graphs, and maps.
With the growth of activities and staff in the Lands Department of the Takla Nation, GIS data management has been expanding at a rapid rate. Field data collection is an important part of the spatial data management. In combination of the existing Open Source tools we have been using to manage our information, we are using an application called “Geopaparazzi” for field work. I will be illustrating the steps to use this customizable application from create of basemaps, vector overlays to data collection and integration.
Systematic conservation planning is essential in the justification and design of marine protected areas, especially in an era where every piece of land or water is at a high premium. We used satellite tracking data and regular monitoring of Greater flamingos into the spatial prioritization planning tool Marxan to identify the most important zones for the conservation of the greater flamingo and many other species of waterbirds and marine habitats in one of the economically important areas in the coastal zone of Abu Dhabi.
The Indigenous Mapping Workshop is an annual 4-day event that provides geospatial training and opportunities for Indigenous communities in North America. The Indigenous Mapping Workshop and its strategic partners are dedicated to the development and advancement of culturally appropriate and inclusive geospatial technologies for Indigenous communities. During the workshop, participants learn and share geospatial tools […]
Guest blogger: Bob Maher Ernest Blair Experiment The 43rd Annual Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA) conference was held at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia from May 30-June 1st. The flow of the conference can be characterized by the three keynotes. Day 1. Ken Field. Esri, Redlands, California. Fake maps ! The Cartography […]