Tag Archives: Big Data

SkyWatch is once again in the news. After getting its Series A round of funding closed early in 2020, the company has been relatively quiet. However, over the past few weeks the company has had several announcements including its Series B round of funding. Now comes news of a new Canadian partner in Wyvern for hyperspectral data. This page is for subscribers only. Already a …

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded C-CORE a contract for the development of blockchain technology to be used with Earth observation big data. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

I, like most of you, am stuck at home for a very good reason. Between working and toddler-sitting I’ve spent some time musing on the question which I tend to be asked often, why hasn’t the Earth observation (EO) industry taken off (yet)?

Barely a month has passed since my first column on SpaceQ and already my best laid plans to use this column to push for a place for space in governmental budgets has come undone. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has selected five companies for its Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Advanced Autonomous Space Systems challenge.

Waterloo based SkyWatch was awarded a $156k contract from the Innovative Solutions Canada program via the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

With the mantra of a whole of government approach at work, a team effort by several government departments is underway to organize a space-data partnering mission to the United Kingdom (UK) next March.

A new government initiative modeled after the Small Business Innovation Research program in the U.S. promotes innovative growth in the small businesses sector.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has announced a research and development opportunity that is targeted at developers to encourage development of applications that integrate data from multiple earth observation (EO) satellites.

In this podcast episode I welcome back Wayne Ellis, a space and defence consultant with AppSpace Solutions of Winnipeg, and a past president of the Canadian Space Society.