Geomatics News

Everyone is invited to join GANS Members and Guests for the Annual GeoGolf Tournament being held at the Avon Valley Golf and Country Club in Falmouth, August 6th.  It's a shotgun start at 11:20am, followed by a delicious steak dinner and prizes.  Registration is $60.  Please register through the GANS Event page by July 25th.

Please join us and bring a friend!

HRM Open Data Catalogue: https://www.halifaxopendata.ca

Also check out http://CanadianGIS.com/data for a growing list of more then 75 other great sources of Canadian data

Matt Murphy, crime analyst with the Halifax Regional Police was interviewed this morning on CBC's Information Morning. He provided an interesting introduction to how the police are using GIS to identify and appropriately patrol higher crime areas of the city. Nice follow up to Superintendent Bill Moore's presentation at Geomatics Atlantic 2012. Way to go GIS!

Check it out: http://www.halifax.ca/Police/PublicSafety/HRMCrimeMapping.html

Hope to see a few GANS members out to the upcoming TECTERRA sponsored GoGeomatics Social on Wednesday night.  Come out to Your Father's Moustache for a beverage, some snacks, and some geo-spatial mingling.

http://www.gogeomatics.ca/magazine/groups/halifax-2

On June 4th, GANS along with Dal and UNB welcomed Dr. Michael Goodchild to Dalhousie University to address the NS Geomatics Community.  Dr. Goodchild's lecture on "The Future of Geographic Information Systems and Science" can be accessed through the following link.  Please enjoy!

http://spatial-information.org/goodchild-lecture/

Thanks to Dr. Goodchild for allowing distribution of the video, and the Board and Members of GANS, and to all the organizers and sponsors of the two day event hosted in Halifax and Fredericton.

The AAPT annual conference will be held at the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown this year, June 4th-5th-6th-7th.  They have an interesting line up of workshops scheduled.  The Agenda can be found HERE.  The NS branch of CIG will also host a seminar at 6PM on June 4th as part of the conference, where Tim Webster will be presenting on a recent research project completed for the town of Bridgetown regarding their risk of flooding.

You have another few days to submit your presentation proposal for the 2013 Geomatics Atlantic Conference.  The extended deadline is May 31.  Please visit www.geoatlantic.org for more information.

I remember my COGS days....Actually, I think those who did go to COGS can never forget....it's all good.  Then again, I don't think it really matters what school you attended to learn Geomatics.... it is scary, frustrating, challenging, difficult, fast paced, crazy, and so many other words....Life Changing, Rewarding, Fun, Team Building, Networking, Interesting, Thought Provoking.....I could go on, but I digress...

Well, COGS held their Awards Banquet earlier this month and we just received the link to the awards pictures.  GANS would like to send a special hello to these special award winners, Alex Peters, Alicia Daniel, Greg Hunt, and Dan Arsenault.  Well done!  We of course also  Congratulate all the award winners and graduates this year.  Good luck on your future careers  :)

No doubt in our minds, we'll be in touch I'm sure.

Also, Thank you Paul Illsley for the great photos.

Cheers,
Gerard eddy
From the GANS Board

It's so interesting to see the growth across HRM in the past 28 years.  What an interesting tool to observe development and coastal change around the planet.  Which area do you find the most striking and why?

http://earthengine.google.org/#timelapse/v=44.64886,-63.57532,10.5,latLng&t=1.80

Dartmouth, NS – An American expert in the field of coastal mapping will offer his findings on the destruction Hurricane Sandy had on coastal habitats along the Northeastern United States October 2012.

Dr. John Brock, staff scientist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program at the National Centre in Virginia, will present on his work on U.S. coastal hazards and how to protect coastal habitats from super storms in the Presentation Theatre at NSCC's Waterfront Campus, Dartmouth on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 pm. 

The discussion will offer:

·         A visual tour of “Superstorm Sandy’s” impacts on urban and natural areas along the New York and New Jersey shoreline

·         A demonstration of the role coastal elevation mapping through airborne laser imaging detection and ranging (lidar) equipment plays in preparing for and responding to the landfall of major hurricanes

·         A lidar mapping and USGS Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar-B outline

·         Early results from USGS coastal airborne lidar response to the landfall of Hurricane Sandy on the US Northeast Coast

Dr. Brock’s research has included co-operative efforts between the USGS, NASA and the National Park Service to create new remote sensing-based capabilities for coastal studies and natural resources management and applications of that work on national seashores.  Dr. Brock is familiar with province having received his post-doctorate at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth.