Honeywell has announced new smart airport technology that helps enhance the safety and efficiency of airside operations. The Honeywell NAVITAS software suite intelligently integrates air and ground traffic control with maintenance operations so airports can more easily accommodate growing air…
U-blox , a global provider of leading positioning and wireless communication technologies, has announced the ZED-F9P multi-band GNSS module with integrated multi-band real-time kinematics (RTK) technology for machine control, ground robotic vehicles and high-precision unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) applications. The…
New Capabilities Provide Support for Unstructured Data in the ArcGIS Platform Spatial analytics company Esri has acquired technology from ClearTerra, a company that offers geospatial and activity-based intelligence tools. The acquisition will provide ArcGIS platform users the ability to easily discover and extract…
Following the successful launch of the third-generation BeiDou satellites, ComNav Technology has been tracking and decoding the BD-3 satellite signals to provide better high-precision positioning services in the near future. As the world’s fourth navigation satellite system, the construction of…
GPS Technology Drives Global Treasure HuntNational Geographic"I go out with my five-year-old and nine-year-old as a family," said geocacher Rich Ness, assistant manager of Bloomington, Minnesota's REI outdoor-gear store (GPS coordinates: latitude 44° 51.6' N, longitude 93° 17.3' W). "I…
Frederick News Post (subscription) Tradition meets technology: Walkersville celebrates 125th anniversary with geocachingFrederick News Post (subscription)The geocaching activity challenges participants to find the 15 “caches” hidden throughout town using GPS navigation. The GPS coordinates for each cache are available online…
Florida Times-Union New drone apps, technology create invisible fencesFlorida Times-UnionThe issue of drone control is so prevalent, NASA is even in the process of creating additional technology in geofencing that uses GPS coordinates entered by government entities that will keep…
Diginomica Technology for social good – what3words and International relief effortsDiginomicaProviding them with GPS coordinates proved little better as people rarely remember long strings of digits and have a tendency to write them down incorrectly. But on speaking to a…
Tifton Gazette Students in UGA Tifton class learn GPS technologyTifton GazetteAfter the design was given GPS coordinates, the students followed the map through the field with a mower behind them cutting the path for the corn maze. William Hinson, a…
