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 ...

Trimble has introduced the next-generation of its Trimble GPS Pathfinder family — the Trimble Pro 6H and Pro 6T receivers for GIS and mobile mapping. The Trimble Pro series with advanced features ...

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 ...

In my last issue, I proclaimed the start of GPS/GIS month, with a focus on the subject in three of my newsletters. This is the second in that series. The first column can be read here. Also, I’m ...

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 ...

Within U.S. Army Public Health Command's G-6 Directorate of Information Management/Information Technology is a small team of geographers who use maps to tell some very detailed stories. The team takes ...

Andrew King (left) and Spence Henderson (right) demonstrate some GIS technologies outside the Facilities Administrationg ...

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 ...

The scourge of land mines has reached global proportions. According to United Nations estimates, there are well over 100 million unexploded mines in the ground in more than 70 countries, many of them ...