The Ontario Association of Remote Sensing (O.A.R.S) has, since 1972, served to educate, communicate, and facilitate on a wide variety of remote sensing and geomatics topics. The membership is composed of small business, industrial, and educational members providing for an insightful exchange of ideas.
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OARS Celabrates 40 years!
This will be OARS 40th year! If you have any ideas about how we should mark this milestone please contact OARS.
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Thank you to our recent speaker Ian Lumb for giving us such a good overview of HPC Cloud Computing. A copy of his slides can be found here
Events of Interest to Members
The following events may be of interest to members:
Jim Freemantle our Technical Programme Director will give a demonstration of the power of the Arduino Microcontroller for simple and complex sensor and communication projects. This talk will be of interest to experimenters, makers and anyone who would agree that if you can blink an LED you can move the world.
When: January 19, 2016 6:30 pm
Where: Ryerson University, Civil Engineering Building, Room MON316 , 341 Church Street, Toronto, Canada
The Canadian Space Commerce Association (CSCA) is organizing its first Canadian SmallSat Symposium building on the heritage of similar events held in Canada over the years. We anticipate the Symposium will attract upwards of a 150 people from industry, government, university, the investment community and others interested in this growing segment of the space market.
When: February 2, 2016 7:30 am - February 3, 2016 8:00 pm
Where: Hotel Novotel Toronto Centre , 45 The Esplanade, Toronto, Canada
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)is pleased to announce GIS-Pro 2016 in Toronto, Ontario! The conference will take place October 31-November 3, 2016 at the Westin Harbour Castle. Abstract submission due March 1, 2016.
When: October 31, 2016 7:30 am - November 3, 2016 8:00 pm
Where: Westin Harbour Castle Hotel , 1 Harbour Square, Toronto, Canada
Call for papers 2016 CSCE Annual Conference June 1-4, 2016 London, Ontario
London, Ontario is hosting the 2016 CSCE Annual conference, which includes the 5th International Natural Disaster Mitigation Specialty Conference, on June 1st to 4th, 2016. link here
Dr. Ahmed Shaker AbdElrahman is Chairing a session about "Geomatics application for natural disaster mitigation " within the Natural Disaster Mitigation Specialty Conference. All papers submitted to the conference will be peer reviewed and permanently archived by the Western Libraries. The deadline for abstract submission is Dec 14.
The Ottawa GoGeomatics Group meets each month to talk about jobs and business opportunities in Ottawa. As well we all just love to talk surveying, GIS and remote sensing. It's a informal get together where we have a pint and and network. Let us know you're attending on our Ottawa Meetup Group!
When: Dec 16, 2015 6:00 pm
Where: James Street Pub, 390 Bank Street, Ottawa, Canada
Join GoGeomatics Canada for our Monthly Social! You will meet professionals, entrepreneurs, professors, recruiters, and students at this event. We love to talk GIS, remote sensing, and surveying.Socials are always fun and free. So stop by for a pint and a chat. Feel free to bring friends and colleagues
When: November 6, 2015 6:30 pm
Where: Fox and Fiddle Pub, 280 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Canada
Join GoGeomatics Canada for our Monthly Social! You will meet professionals, entrepreneurs, professors, recruiters, and students at this event. We love to talk GIS, remote sensing, and surveying.Socials are always fun and free. So stop by for a pint and a chat. Feel free to bring friends and colleagues
When: Dec 19, 2015 6:30 pm
Where: Fresco's Restaurant and Bar, 100 Fourth Ave, St. Catharines, Canada
Join GoGeomatics Canada for our Monthly Social! You will meet professionals, entrepreneurs, professors, recruiters, and students at this event. We love to talk GIS, remote sensing, and surveying.Socials are always fun and free. So stop by for a pint and a chat. Feel free to bring friends and colleagues
When: November 25, 2015 6:45 pm
Where: Tir Nan Og, 200 Ontario Street, Kingston, Canada
News of Interest to Members
The following news items may be of interest to members:
Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, receives gift of $500,000 from PCI Geomatics to support global R&D
On November 24, 2015, The Lassonde School of Engineering at York University received a gift of $500,000 from PCI Geomatics to support joint research and development projects at York U and PCI, including a series of online workshops bringing together PCI’s Global Education Alliance. An international symposium is planned in the future to be hosted at Lassonde.
A new annual Dr Robert Moses Lectureship series will also be created. For further information please see the announcement at the Lassonde Web site.
Useful News Feeds
Add these RSS feeds to your home page to keep up today with RS/GIS news. Unless otherwise noted these are third party sites and OARS is not responsible for its content.- Directions Magazine top stories
- Environmental News and debate from The Guardian (UK)
- ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Open Access Journal, most recent Table of Contents.
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, most recent Table of Contents.
- OARS news feed
Digitalglobe Webinars
Digitalglobe provides webinars that may be of interest, visit their website here.University of Toronto, Centre for Environment Seminars and Events
For more information about events at U of T that my be of interest to members please follow the links below
Distinguished Lecturer SeriesMemorial Lectures
Environment Seminar Series