May 27, 2021 If you love the Garmin Connect Badges and the hard work that goes into earning the newest one, you’re going to love our new Garmin Connect Badge Challenges. This new Garmin Connect feature offers a way for you to keep acquiring new badges all month long. You can rise to the challenge every day, pushing yourself further to beat yesterday.  You need to opt-in and join each Badge Challenge to earn the […]

The GNSS Software Defined Radio Metadata Standard document has been published in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation’s Spring 2021 issue, Volume 68, No. 1, pp. 11-20. The metadata standard is the product of a three-year long effort of the ION GNSS SDR Standard Working Group and defines parameters and schema to express the contents of SDR sample data files. The standard promotes the interoperability of GNSS SDR data-collection systems and processors. In the […]

May 25, 2021 Rohan Grace is no stranger to being off the beaten path. An Australian who grew up off-roading, he is a member of two Land Rover Clubs and founded Off Road Oregon, a four-wheel drive tour company based in Oregon. More often than not, Rohan can be found on multiday or multiweek trips to out-of-the-way destinations in high-clearance vehicles. It was on one such trip that Rohan and his partner, Hannah, were suddenly […]

Photo: Javad GNSS Javad GNSS has launched the TRIUMPH-3 receiver for surveyors and geodesists. It is capable of efficient tracking even in difficult conditions. It can track all current signals and is ready for any future satellites. TRIUMPH-3 is designed to operate as a base together with TRIUMPH-LS and TRIUMPH-LS Plus to efficiently accomplish any geodetic job. Its real-time kinematic (RTK) system communicates via integrated UHF, 4G/LTE, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth channels, and eliminates the need […]

May 10, 2021 Garmin Pro Gabe Joyes is a mountain runner and racer, and whether he’s breaking records on 100-mile runs or trekking through the wild near his home in western Wyoming, he needs an ultraperformance GPS watch that can keep up. Enter Enduro™. We sent Gabe on his way with our multisport watch designed specifically for ultrarunners, and the results were — well, they were exactly what we expected, actually. He loves it, but […]

Swiss company SpacePNT will develop an advanced spaceborne GPS/Galileo receiver to demonstrate for lunar navigation and positioning. A vision of the NAVIMOON receiver. (Image: SpacePNT) The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected SpacePNT to develop an advanced spaceborne GPS/Galileo receiver to demonstrate the use of terrestrial satellite navigation signals or real-time and autonomous orbit determination and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). The receiver will be carried aboard the ESA-SSTL Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft, which will be […]

May 20, 2021 When it comes to good directions for truck drivers, a smartphone will only take you so far. Whether it’s a route with sharp curves, a steep grade or an upcoming weigh station when you’re already on a tight schedule, you’ll come to a point — probably sooner rather than later — where you’ll wish you had a GPS device specific to semitrucks. Enter the Garmin dēzl™ OTR series, a product line of […]

Trimble has expanded its VRS Now correction services across mainland Norway for a total European footprint of 2.5 million square kilometers. Trimble has expanded its VRS Now correction services across mainland Norway and most outer islands. As part of an ongoing global correction service strategy, the company is adding more than 400,000 square kilometers (156,000 square miles) to its European footprint, which now totals 2.5 million square kilometers (975,000 square miles). VRS Now delivers reliable, […]

May 18, 2021 Professional angler Cody Huff attributes his recent tournament success to Garmin LiveScope. “It’s completely changed how I think about fish.” Hailing from Ava, Missouri, a town dubbed on its website as the “Treasure of the Ozarks,” professional angler Cody Huff does not have a flair for the dramatics. Referring to his 2020 Toyota Series victories at Table Rock and Toledo Bend and his various top-10 placements while on the Abu Garcia College […]

The versatility of the ZEB Horizon device enabled the Deep Time team to map the complex and challenging environment. (Photo: GeoSLAM) Geospatial 3D mapping specialist GeoSLAM provided the technology to scan one of Europe’s largest caves as a part of the Deep Time isolation study. For 40 days, 15 participants set up camp in the Lombrives cave in southwestern France with no clocks or sunlight, and zero contact with the outside world. Conducted by the […]