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SDI Interesting Reads - August 2019

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Author Gordon Plunkett

How are researchers mapping the world’s largest terrestrial carbon store? What is the controversy around Québec’s updated flood maps? Where can you download the developer edition of the Web AppBuilder for ArcGISv2.13? Read about these and more in this month’s SDI Interesting Reads. Please note this will be the last issue of SDI Interesting Reads. From September onwards, we will publish more SDI commentaries each month. Stay tuned.

About the Author

Gordon Plunkett is the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Director at Esri Canada. He has more than 30 years of experience in GIS and Remote Sensing in both the public and private sectors. He currently sits as a member of the Community Map of Canada Steering Committee, GeoAlliance Canada Interim Board of Directors, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee, the Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Committee on Geomatics, the University of Laval Convergence Network Advisory Committee and the Advisory Board to the Carleton University Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre. During his career, Gordon has worked on projects in more than 20 countries and has contributed to numerous scientific conferences and publications. At Esri Canada, he is responsible for developing and supporting the company’s SDI vision, initiatives and outreach, including producing content for the SDI blog.

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