DeLorme is showcasing its newest PN-Series GPS receivers and related products at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market trade show in Salt Lake City this week. Also on display is DeLorme Topo North America 9.0 GPS maps and PC software, and DigitalGlobe worldwide aerial and satellite imagery for display...More>>

Topcon Positioning Systems, Aerotec LLC, and Laser Technology, Inc., have created a joint vegetation management solution designed to allow utility foresters to use GPS to identify and locate conductor-vegetation clearance problems quickly and accurately, Topcon said.More>>

Trimble has partnered with Timmons Group to provide an integrated system for the field collection, management, and submittal of wetland delineation data. The system combines Trimble Mapping & GIS handheld computers with the WetCollect wetland delineation software from Timmons Group to comply with...More>>

Trimble (Sunnyvale, California) has launched Map the Spill, a free mobile application and website that empowers Gulf Coast residents and the public to report on the oil spill. Map the Spill allows those directly and indirectly affected by the spill to capture and chronicle what they see happening...More>>

A team of Swiss researchers is using data from a network of GPS receivers and the technique of tomography to obtain profiles of how moisture is distributed with height, which might lead to better weather forecasts. More>>

Modern machines such as wood harvesters can automatically cut trees and remove branches, but an expert is still needed to plan a thinning and to mark the trees to be felled. The process can be accelerated if the forest ranger can virtually mark trees to be cut, using geographic coordinates instead...More>>

One of the first industrial uses of GPS came in survey and seismic exploration for offshore oil, as evidenced by the cover story of this magazine’s September 1992 issue. A salient passage from that 18-year-old “Quality Control For Differential GPS in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration” article:...More>>

Blue Sky Network, a provider of Iridium-based GPS tracking and communication solutions, and Upland Consulting, a management and strategy services firm, have won a project to implement FuelTrax Marine Fuel Management and GPS tracking on offshore support vessels in Nigeria. A petroleum company is...More>>

Eyewitness volunteer reporters with camera- and GPS-enabled phones are helping to map the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, an effort supported by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. The non-profit volunteer group has created an "Oil Spill Crisis Map" that will allow Gulf Coast residents to report...More>>

Geneq Inc. announced it has integrated a DGPS Beacon receiver inside their SXBlue II GPS product. Named the SXBlue II-B GPS, it expands the SXBlue II GPS sub-meter mapping performance to over 38 countries around the world wherever a DGPS beacon transmitter is broadcasting.More>>