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 […]

May 17, 2021 Sponsored by the National Safe Boating Council (NSBC), National Safe Boating Week is a global effort dedicated to promoting safe boating practices. In 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, the U.S. Coast Guard reported 4,168 boating accidents that resulted in 2,559 injuries, 613 fatalities and $55 million in property damage. At Garmin we want to encourage boaters to take a few simple steps now to ensure they’ll get […]

The Earth Archive Initiative is an unprecedented scientific effort to create a digital twin of the entire surface of the Earth – and everything on it. By scanning the planet’s land surface with very high-resolution lidar, the Earth Archive will create a true three-dimensional digital twin of our world — an open source, digital record of the Earth that will reflect the landscape exactly as it was at the time of scanning. The geospatial data […]

May 13, 2021 At Garmin we changed the diving game with the release of our first Descent™ Mk1 — the first watch-sized dive computer to offer surface GPS navigation with full-color, on-screen mapping and location reference, as well as a proven algorithm to ensure you stay within your dive limits under the surface. The Descent™ T1 transmitter  and Descent™ Mk2i dive computer (each sold separately) elevated the dive experience even more with the ability to […]

UAV Navigation has developed a flight-control solution specifically for vertical-take-off-and-landing (VTOL) fixed-wing drones. Interest in using VTOL platforms has grown in the past few years, according to the company. A hybrid between fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms, VTOLs provide operators with versatility. The company’s fixed- and rotary-wing development teams worked together on the flight-control solution. Technological capabilities from other solutions — referenced navigation or the development of missions in environments without GNSS signals and under threat […]