February 13, 2024 Garmin users are intense — and we’ve got the data to prove it. Garmin smartwatches come packed to the brim with features dedicated to helping you take a more intentional approach to your health and wellness. One such feature is intensity minute tracking, designed to help you monitor your physical activity each week. Below we outline everything you need to know about intensity minutes — what they are, how many you should […]

“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. Mapping the melting Arctic Image: TT / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images According to the 2023 Arctic Report Card by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), new records have been documented showing that human-induced warming of the atmosphere, ocean and land is creating adverse impacts on […]

February 15, 2024 Using Garmin smartwatches, researchers have found that tracking activity levels in cardiovascular patients can help lead to better self-reported quality of life. The German Heart Centre in Munich, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is at the forefront of cardiovascular care, particularly when it comes to congenital heart defects (CHDs). The two institutions have been using Garmin watches to monitor physical activity in patients for years, beginning in pediatrics […]

Earlier this week House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner sounded an alarm about a serious national security threat. It had to do with Russia, a weapon, space, and something nuclear. For many, these clues conjured up images of bombs falling to Earth from space, satellites destroyed by powerful electromagnetic pulses, shrapnel impacting the space station, and so on. Yet, putting nuclear weapons in space would be a clear violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty […]

General February 13, 2024 With the right Garmin smartwatch on your wrist, you can store hundreds of songs for phone-free listening while you’re on the move. Sync your own songs or connect to your premium Spotify®, Deezer and Amazon Music accounts to download your favorite playlists. Garmin has smartwatches with music storage for all types of watches, including everyday watches, running watches, workout watches, and more. Here are some of the Garmin watches with music […]

For centuries before sonar, lidar and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), sailors would measure depths by throwing a line overboard with a lead weight at the end — called a leadline — and record its length to the seafloor. Mapping large areas of the seafloor, therefore, required thousands of these measurements. However, even after extensive measurement efforts, the acquired data was often inaccurate or incomplete, which forced navigators and surveyors to estimate the seafloor’s bathymetry until […]

January 24, 2024 Before his friend headed out on a backcountry ski tour one day, James Birch gave him his inReach® device1— just in case. That day, three separate avalanches occurred in and around the slopes they were skiing. Birch’s friend and his party members were caught in a slide approximately 600–800 meters wide and running 200–300 meters long. Birch got the call that an SOS had been triggered on his device. He shared with […]

Image: SparkFun SparkFun Electronics has launched the SparkFun real-time kinematics (RTK) mosaic-X5. It uses the multi-constellation, multi-frequency capabilities of the Septentrio mosaic-X5 module, which aims to improve accuracy and reliability in a variety of position applications. The RTK mosaic-X5 is a 448-channel receiver that supports all four Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) — GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo — and one of the two regional ones, NavIC. It can function as both an RTK base […]

January 29, 2024 The 2023 data is in. No one does marine mapping better than Garmin and Navionics. With both brands being prevalent in the marine mapping space for many years, we know a thing or two about charts and the industry at large to help boaters, anglers and sailors do what they love on the water. A strong reputation starts with results, including reporting more than 4 million chart updates in 2023. That’s right […]

Image: Point One Navigation GNSS has transformed the way both individuals and machines navigate across the globe, leading to a growing number of organizations utilizing positioning data in the development of products and applications. GNSS technology plays a crucial role in enabling autonomous vehicles, robots, logistics fleets, and emergency response systems to accurately determine the precise locations of places, people, and things on Earth’s surface. As a result, routes are not only more accurate and […]