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.
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)