Objectives
- Increase awareness of the benefits of using geospatial data and tools to achieve goals for social, economic and environmental priorities;
- Keep Canada at the leading edge of accessing, sharing and using geospatial information via the Internet;
- Support the integration and use of geospatial data to support effective decision making; and
- Coordinate the development of national policies, standards and mechanisms and support their implementation to ensure maintenance and updating of geospatial data and compatibility with global standards.
WHO CAN SUBMIT A PROJECT PROPOSAL?
Proponent must be from one of the following types of a legal entity:
- Academic institutions;
- Canadian or International profit and non-profit organizations;
- Corporations;
- Individuals;
- Industry and their associations;
- International governments;
- Provincial, Territorial, Regional, Municipal and Rural government departments, agencies and some Crown Corporations as set out in Schedule III, Part 2 of the Financial Administration Act; or
- Research associations; whose objective contribute to the objectives of the GeoConnections Program
The Invitation for Projects for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 Fiscal Years, the GeoConnections Program is focussing its funding on contribution projects totaling $1,000,000 under the theme "New pre-commercial standard-based solutions that integrate various sources of satellite data with other geospatial data in near-real time on the Internet"
Interested proponents are invited to submit a project proposal to GeoConnections no later than December 20, 2018. Download the Invitation for Projects documentation (PDF, 513 KB)
