Whether your goal is to improve nutrition by tracking calories or simply understand the nutrients in the food you’re eating, food logging apps can be an important tool. The nutrition-tracking and fitness app Lose It! is now compatible with Garmin devices through a Garmin Health API integration. Lose It! Premium members can sync their exercise and calorie data from their Garmin devices to make healthy living easier than ever. One of the most effective app-based […]

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. — The Air Force’s newest Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite, Space Vehicle 02 (SV02) is ready for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37 The Lockheed Martin GPS III SV02 is set to launch  Aug. 22 aboard an United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket. The launch window opens at 9 a.m. EDT and will remain open for 27 minutes. A live-feed will begin 20 minutes […]

Topcon Positioning Group will be showcasing its vertical construction, construction management, and structural health and inspection technology at Intergeo 2019. (Photo: Topcon) Topcon Positioning Group will be demonstrating its technology offerings across vertical construction, construction management, and structural health and inspection at Intergeo 2019. Topcon will present its new building information modeling (BIM) technology at the show, which includes the Topcon vertical construction workflow. The Topcon vertical construction work flow includes the Laser Scanning Robotic […]

Our Garmin Pilot team introduced new enhancements and features within the aviation app, highlighted by expanded FltPlan.com integration including pre-departure clearances (PDCs) and the ability to submit Electronic Advance Passenger Information System (eAPIS) manifests. Additionally, route suggestions and optimized routings are now available on FltPlan.com and can be viewed within Garmin Pilot. For our European users, Garmin Pilot incorporates a robust VFR data set including airport traffic patterns, entry routing lines, TMZ/RMZ airspaces and more.  […]

A new study from the University of Helsinki using miniaturized satellite-based tags revealed that during drier periods desert bats must fly further and longer to fulfil their nightly needs. According to researchers this signals their struggle in facing dry periods. Wildlife tracking has revolutionized the study of animal movement and their behavior. Yet, tracking small, flying animals such as desert bats remained challenging. Now a new generation of miniaturized satellite-based tags is […]

The Ninja UAV. (Photo: ideaForge) Lynx–Lawrence & Mayo, an Indian engineering equipment providers, has expanded its portfolio to include specialized drones, through its partnership with ideaForge, India’s largest UAV manufacturer. As part of the agreement, ideaForge’s drones equipped with more than a decade of UAV design expertise, will be accessible to Lynx – Lawrence and Mayo for applications across urban development, weather monitoring and testing, agro-technology and other sectors. Developed by a team of Indian Institute […]

By Carly Hysell The boats were rigged, the pros were ready — it was showtime on a small lake in Central Florida the day before ICAST, the world’s largest sportfishing tradeshow. Our goal? To unveil the most powerful, most efficient freshwater trolling motor the fishing industry had ever seen. With rumors swirling about multiple trolling motor introductions at this year’s ICAST, it was dubbed “the year of the trolling motor,” and the Garmin team knew […]

The FALCon research project has already carried out initial flight experiments with unmanned small aircraft. Drone Rescue Systems (Photo: Drone Rescue Systems) The parachute safety solution manufacturer Drone Rescue Systems GmbH is supporting the European research project FALCon, the “Formation flight for in-Air Launcher 1st stage Capturing demonstration.” Under the leadership of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), research is being conducted on how launch vehicles can be returned to the launch […]

I was born and raised in Maryland where I enjoyed my summers fishing off Ocean City, MD and in the Chesapeake Bay. After I graduated college, I moved South where I could enjoy being on the water and fish year-round. We’ve been living in Dania Beach, FL for 7 years now. We have one daughter, Madison, and are expecting twins at the end of this Summer. I really got into photography 2 years ago. I’ve […]

Israeli airspace is no longer experiencing a mysterious disruption of GPS signals that had forced a change in some plane landing procedures, the country’s airports authority said Tuesday. Some experts had suggested the disruption could have been the result of Russian military operations in neighbouring Syria, but Moscow has denied it was the cause. “The disruptions in the region recently ceased. As a result we decided to return the airports to normal activity,” an airports […]