Thank you for making “GPS for GIS Data Collection – 101” one of the most well-attended webinars we’ve done. It’s the first that was co-hosted by GPS World magazine and Geospatial Solutions online. If ...

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 ...

After retiring from the Navy in 1993, my first GIS-related position was with the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). I was tasked with building the agency’s GIS and promoting GIS within the 10 member ...

Featuring a vibrant 3-inch, WQVGA transflective color touchscreen, 533MHz processor and 128MB RAM, the eXplorist Pro 10 packs the power needed to work with maps and large data sets into a ...

In Florida, Santa Rosa County’s Aleta Floyd, left, and Val Jarvis say they intend to keep extending the services supported by the county GIS as agencies provide new types of data for inclusion in the ...

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 ...

Within hours of the space shuttle Columbia‘s disintegration over East Texas, geographic information system departments at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, marshaled their ...

A survey of registrants for an ESRI user conference found their top concerns are GIS interoperability, data standards and policies for sharing geospatial information. A preconference survey of ...

If you’ve got a smartphone, you can’t help but notice a tiny little arrow, satellite dish, or teardrop icon at the top of your screen sometimes. It looks pretty innocuous, nestled as it is among the ...

Supergeo announces that its leading GIS software on Windows and Windows Mobile OS – SuperPad was chosen by Indonesian GPS instrument provider CV. Gunapris Elecom as the solution for spatial data ...

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 ...

Classes in William & Mary’s new certificate program in geospatial sciences will begin in the fall. “It’s actually a certificate in Geographic Information Science, to be very specific,” said GIS ...