Quoted from International Mining “Today (June 10) at the MassMin conference in Lulea, Sweden, Greg Baiden of Laurentian University, Canada (also Chief Technology Officer of Penguin Automated Systems) presented on a newly developed Underground Positioning System (UPS). The UPS has a range of some 2 km through rock and accuracy better than 3%. Mine trials [...]

Ever since GPS technology has become mainstream people have been wondering how they can use it to track things in real time and a few companies have invented some novel devices that allow you to do it. For clarity we’re going to break the electronics down into two parts. We have the BEACON which is [...]

The Quoox GPS Tracker is a free service to live-track any kind of GPS device. The only thing needed is a device which has the capability to upload its current GPS data to the Quoox Tracker Service.

Most consumer GPS devices will advertise that they have an accuracy of about 2-3 meters (6-9 feet), but if you’ve ever imported your position and compared it to a known location you’ll realize your data collection isn’t always as accurate as the specs say. There are a couple of settings on most devices that you [...]

You studied your destination and picked a waypoint to load into your GPS from Google Earth. You have your GPS and you’re now invincible, you throw away your outdated compass and start trekking out into the bush to do some real exploration. Walking out to places where no man has gone bef… Walking out to [...]

I’ve had my Trimble Juno ST for about 4 months now and I’m really impressed by the features it has. I use it in a professional environment to help me perform some of the tasks associated with my work. The Juno is basically a handheld mobile computer running the MS Mobile 5 operating system with [...]