Natural Resources Canada · Contribution program
GeoConnections Program
GeoConnections III will provide federal leadership to optimize the use of geospatial data in effective decision-making and lead strategic geomatics policy development.
- Total value
- $4.4M
- Agreements
- 26
- Mar 2019 to Jun 2025
- Median agreement
- $145K
- Typical range
- $125K–$250K
- the middle half of agreements
Federal grants and contributions, agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026, each counted once at its latest amended value. Source: Treasury Board proactive disclosure, published October 11, 2026.
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Who got it
Organizations with the most funding under this program.
| Recipient | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Ecere Corporation | 2 | $500K |
| Manitoba Emergency Management Organization | 2 | $480K |
| CubeWerx Inc. | 1 | $268K |
| C-Core | 2 | $253K |
| Hatfield consultants LLP | 1 | $250K |
| Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal | 1 | $250K |
| Tula Foundation | 1 | $250K |
| SensorUp Inc. | 1 | $250K |
| University of Manitoba | 1 | $250K |
| The University of British Columbia | 1 | $250K |
| University of New Brunswick | 1 | $166K |
| PCI Geomatics Enterprises Inc. | 1 | $144K |
| Skymantics Llc | 1 | $125K |
| Groupe Hauts-Monts International Inc | 1 | $125K |
| Romaeris Corporation | 1 | $125K |
| The Arctic Eider Society | 1 | $125K |
| Regroupement des organismes de bassins versants du Québec | 1 | $125K |
| Compusult Limited | 1 | $125K |
| MRF Geosystems Corporation | 1 | $125K |
| A.U.G. Signals Ltd. | 1 | $80K |
| Sustainability Solutions Group Workers Cooperative | 1 | $80K |
| Geoanalytic Inc. | 1 | $56K |
| 4DM Inc. | 1 | $38K |
By year
Agreements by the year they started.
| Year | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | $842K |
| 2020 | 4 | $492K |
| 2021 | 2 | $500K |
| 2022 | 7 | $875K |
| 2024 | 3 | $730K |
| 2025 | 4 | $1M |
By province
| Province or territory | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Quebec | 7 | $1.4M |
| Ontario | 6 | $850K |
| British Columbia | 3 | $750K |
| Manitoba | 2 | $480K |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 2 | $271K |
| Alberta | 2 | $181K |
| New Brunswick | 1 | $166K |
| Nunavut | 1 | $125K |
| Outside Canada or not stated | 1 | $125K |
| Nova Scotia | 1 | $80K |
By type of recipient
As the department classified the recipient.
| Recipient type | Agreements | Total |
|---|---|---|
| For-profit organizations | 18 | $2.9M |
| Academia | 3 | $666K |
| Government | 2 | $480K |
| Other organizations | 1 | $125K |
| International (non-government) | 1 | $125K |
| Indigenous recipients | 1 | $125K |
Latest agreements
| Start | Recipient | What for | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | The University of British Columbia | GeoAI for Indigenous Health Equity: Innovative Geomapping for Planning and Resource Accessibility of Indigenous Community Assets in British ColumbiaContribution | $250,000 |
| May 2025 | Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal | FAIR Climate Services across CanadaContribution | $250,000 |
| Apr 2025 | Hatfield consultants LLP | A standards-based AI pipeline for linear disturbance detection and monitoring in forested Denesu¿line´ traditional territoriesContribution | $250,000 |
| Apr 2025 | Ecere Corporation | Advancing and Implementing OGC Standards for GeoDataCubes, DGGSs, Data Stores for Digital Twins and Cartographic SymbologyContribution | $250,000 |
| Jul 2024 | Manitoba Emergency Management Organization | Emergency Management Citizen GeoInsightsContribution | $230,000 |
| Jul 2024 | Manitoba Emergency Management Organization | Emergency Management Citizen GeoInsightsContribution | $250,000 |
| Jun 2024 | Tula Foundation | A FAIR+ LiDAR application portal for spatial data visualization & analysis at scaleContribution | $250,000 |
| Nov 2022 | Regroupement des organismes de bassins versants du Québec | Geofluence: Uniting water stakeholders through an open geospatial data infrastructureContribution | $125,000 |
| Nov 2022 | Skymantics Llc | Collaborative AI Forestry PlannerContribution | $125,000 |
| Nov 2022 | Compusult Limited | Enabling Geospatial Services in Support of Decision Making for Indigenous PeoplesContribution | $125,000 |
| Nov 2022 | Romaeris Corporation | Novel Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Spectroscopic Sensors to Support Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)Contribution | $125,000 |
| Nov 2022 | MRF Geosystems Corporation | Fine-Grained Cellular Signal Strength Data, Service and ApplicationsContribution | $125,000 |
| Nov 2022 | Groupe Hauts-Monts International Inc | Takuvuq (he sees) - pilot project for Québec's northern villages about the centralization, democratization and accessibility of historical aerial imagery through the webContribution | $125,000 |
| Nov 2022 | The Arctic Eider Society | Scaling, crowd-sourcing and stewarding Indigenous place names with SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social NetworkContribution | $125,000 |
| Jun 2021 | University of Manitoba | Climate Change, the Manitoba Great Lakes, and Mobilizing Geospatial Data for Indigenous Decision MakingContribution | $250,000 |
| Jun 2021 | SensorUp Inc. | Development of a New Open Geospatial Consortium Standard and Open-Source Software for Methane Data Exchange and Emission ReductionContribution | $250,000 |
| Nov 2020 | Sustainability Solutions Group Workers Cooperative | Muncipal Energy and Emissions DatabaseContribution | $79,797 |
| Sep 2020 | Geoanalytic Inc. | Development of Data as a Service (DaaS) System for Polar Operations and EngineeringContribution | $55,500 |
| Aug 2020 | C-Core | Sherlock: Geospatial Catalogue Data as a Service (DaaS)Contribution | $106,973 |
| Jul 2020 | Ecere Corporation | Flexible real-time data processing and visualization workflows emerging from OGC API modulesContribution | $250,000 |
| Mar 2019 | PCI Geomatics Enterprises Inc. | Development of a Prototype Multi-Temporal Climate Change Analysis System for Earth observation and Supporting Geospatial Data for Environment and Climate Change CanadaContribution | $143,782 |
| Mar 2019 | CubeWerx Inc. | Delivering scalable Open Geospatial Consortium data services in the CloudContribution | $268,273 |
| Mar 2019 | 4DM Inc. | Utilizing Optical Earth Observation Data to Support Maritime Domain Awareness in Canada through Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure Based Web Framework.Contribution | $37,821 |
| Mar 2019 | University of New Brunswick | Standards-based System for Near-Real-Time 3D Online Mapping of the Globe by Integrating Various Sources of Satellite Data and Geospatial DataContribution | $166,349 |
| Mar 2019 | C-Core | Polar Code Application - Decision Support and ComplianceContribution | $145,882 |