7 Key Takeaways from the OGC Climate Change Special Session
Article contributed by Steve Liang, SensorUp “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” The quote is originally from management consultant Peter Drucker and later used by Al Gore to describe the challenge with climate change. It accurately encapsulates the theme of the Climate Change Special Session at the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Climate […]
Paving the way forward for Building Energy Mapping and Analytics
This Article was Contributed by Eddie Oldfield, Senior Lead, Projects & Advisory Services, QUEST; Jessica Webster, Energy Planning Analyst, Natural Resources Canada; and Ryan Ahola, Environmental Scientist, Natural Resources Canada – Introduction – The Challenge Building energy mapping and analysis are critical for geo-targeting energy policies and programs to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon […]
OGC Disaster Pilots work to address floods, fires, landslides, and epidemics with better information sharing.
The last three years have been unprecedented when it comes to disasters. In 2019 alone there was billions of dollars’ worth of damage, and thousands of fatalities were caused by hundreds of catastrophes ranging from earthquakes to wildfires. To address this decades-long trend of ever larger and deadlier disasters, OGC and the greater location information […]