One hundred attendees from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut participated in the NRCan Geomatics Workshops

Within the framework of the Geomatics for Northern Development Program, three workshops were held in the following cities: Yellowknife, Cambridge Bay and Iqaluit.

The objective of these workshops was to make the participants aware of the existence of the geospatial data for their areas and to explain the concepts of the GPS and its use with the geospatial data produced by Natural Resources Canada. These meetings aimed also to validate the priorities of production of data for the North with the users.

Moreover representatives of the department met groups of high school students from Cambridge Bay and Iqaluit for short presentations on the GPS and the geospatial data. These training workshops were crowned with success since the majority of the participants requested that the department organize other workshops of the same type.

Representing the Department of Natural Resources Canada:

Yellowknife (October 4, 5 and 6, 2005) 50 persons;
Cambridge Bay (November 12 and 13, 2005) 15 persons;
Paul Jolicoeur, Program manager for the Geomatics for northern development Program.
Pierre Sauvé, GPS specialist
René Pellerin, agent de projet
Iqaluit (November 2 and 3, 2005) 35 persons

Dave Taylor informs the participants at Cambridge Bay on the status of the production of the Topogarphic Data for Nunavut

René Pellerin, project member, presenting the digital topographic products of Natural Resources Canada to the participants at the workshop in Cambridge Bay.

Pierre Sauvé, projet member, speaking to Cambridge Bay High School Students and explaining the advantages and benefits of Geomatics.

The water bodies around Cambridge Bay are frozen since the begining of October.

Cambridge Bay houses one of the defense stations of NORAD.

A part of the 35 students in attendance at the GPS and Digital Topographic data Workshop in Iqualuit.

Classroom at Iqualuit. In the center of the picture you see Pierre Sauvé from the Geodetic Survey Division; Canadian Spatial Reference System and geodettic services. He was presenting a workshop on the Use of GPS with digital topographic data from NRCan.

Testing of various types of GPS receivers from a geodetic point situated near the Iqualuit Airport. From left to right: Pierre Sauvé, NRCan; Geodetic Survey Division in Ottawa, Jacques d'Auteuil, Land surveyor from the Canada Centre for Cadastral Management, Nunavut Client Liaison Unit, NRCan

Jacques d'Auteuil, Land surveyor from the Canada Centre for Cadastral Management, Nunavut Client Liaison Unit, NRCan Jean Pinard, GND Program member, Centre for Topographic Information Sherbrooke, NRCan.

Paul Jolicoeur, Program Manager of the Geomatics for Northern Development program, informs the participants at Yellowknife on the status of the production of the Topogarphic Data for NWT.

Pierre Sauvé, project member, explains to the participants how to benefit from the use of a GPS receiver.