Canada is big, really big! Mapping the whole country took us over 100 years to complete. Through the years, the techniques used to map Canada's features evolved.

For NRCan, the latest innovation is in the operational implementation of Artificial Intelligence tools and approaches, nested in high performance cloud computing capacity, and build via micros-ervices for agile and scalable deployment. This capacity, enables the organization to increase exponentially its capacity to create and update foundational geospatial data. Beyond data creation, the approach opens new opportunities along the lines of change detection and targeting dynamic areas for mapping where it matters, when it matters.