A GPS unit and a Geographic Information System (GIS) program are a great team. With a GPS receiver in hand, you can tap into the network of government satellites to calculate your position on Earth to ...

Using Global Positioning System-derived location data to define the debris field from the breakup of the shuttle Columbia, researchers and undergraduates from Stephen F. Austin University in ...

Last week, the U.S. Air Force announced it is reconfiguring the GPS constellation. The Air Force is changing the constellation from a 21+3 configuration to a 24+3 configuration. The result will be ...

When Soon Kim, a Korean national working at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, disappeared during a boating trip on Lake Powell with his roommate in 1985, the subsequent investigation turned up more ...

LaunchPoint upgrades SiteRight with GPS mapping, embedding survey-grade GNSS/RTK data into 811 workflows to boost safety, accuracy, and damage prevention. LaunchPoint Software Systems has announced a ...

I had an interesting experience last month that opened my eyes and had me thinking about how consumer electronics has transformed GIS over the last several years. Google Earth was cool when it first ...

WASHINGTON — Debris from the space shuttle Columbia has been found in 38 Texas counties so far, but Nacogdoches County in eastern Texas was especially hard hit. And that’s where P.R. Blackwell, an ...

The XMap 5.0 GIS Enterprise suite includes a wide range of advanced mapping, routing, navigation, GPS and GIS file management features. As three-tiered solution, it delivers the appropriate measure of ...

As part of its GIS Day celebration, Mississippi State's Department of Geosciences is sponsoring a lecture by Toby Sanford, GIS manager at Golden Triangle Planning and Development District Inc. Also ...

Casual observers pulling into the parking lot at Ashley Ridge High School recently may have seen small knots of students staring at objects in their hands, then striding purposefully toward some ...