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Suunto Ambit 2 offers serious memory upgrades, more apps, weather and more features than any other GPS watch, according to the Heart Rate Watch Company. Bozeman, MT (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Suunto Ambit 2 has just been announced and there are three different models, two of which will be of great interest to those in the military according to the Heart Rate Watch Company. "We will honor our 10% US Military discount to all members active and retired", says Rusty Squire, President of...

Garmin 910XT has been cited as the best ultra-running watch for 2013 by the Heart Rate Watch Company. Suunto Ambit, Garmin fenix and Magellan Switch Up were also contenders. Boeman, MT (PRWEB) March 17, 2013 The Garmin Forerunner 910XT has been voted as the best ultra-running watch for 2013 by the Heart Rate Watch Company testers. "The field of candidates was a lot tougher this year with some new entries like the Magellan Switch Up, which is an excellent ultra watch in its own right,...

The Suunto Ambit GPS watch has been voted the Best Skiing and Mountaineering watch by the Heart Rate Watch Company for the second year running. The company tests the watch in the mountains surrounding Bozeman, Montana. Bozeman, MT (PRWEB) January 20, 2013 Suunto Ambit has been voted the best downhill skiing and mountaineering watch for 2013 by the Heart Rate Watch Company. This is the second consecutive year the watch has received this honor. "Suunto Ambit logs vertical feet, maps,...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The European Space Agency's (ESA) ice mission is giving scientists a better look at oceans, coastal areas, inland water bodies and land. The orbiting CryoSat launched in 2010 and was developed to measure the changes in the thickness of polar sea ice, the elevation of ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica, and mountain glaciers. The satellite's radar altimeter not only detects tiny variations in the height of the ice,...

ESA An anticlockwise rotation of sea-surface height patterns has been observed near Norway’s west coast. Archived data from radar altimeters on the ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat satellites show the wave-like motion around the center of the Lofoten Basin. The Lofoten Basin is a topographic depression about 3500 m deep in the Norwegian Sea and plays an important role in sustaining global ocean circulation. It is a transit area for the warm and saline Atlantic Water on its way to the Arctic...

Scientists have gathered in the 'floating city' this week to talk about radar altimetry – measuring the heights of the global sea surface, freshwater bodies, land and ice using spaceborne sensors. Held every five years, the '20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium' gives participants the opportunity to focus on the challenges overcome to develop our current understanding of Earth’s surface variations observed by altimetry. Radar altimeters record the surface topography...

The new Garmin fenix is the best suited GPS watch to military applications according to the Heart Rate Watch Company. The watch features onscreen maps just like a GPS handheld and has an altimeter, barometer and compass. Bozeman, MT (PRWEB) August 02, 2012 The Garmin fenix is going to be super popular with military personnel according to the Heart Rate Watch Company. "We already had orders from a couple bases and the fact that these watches have handheld maps, trackback and offer...

Piracy may be a topic of schoolboy adventure stories, but it’s still a dangerous and costly problem for merchant shipping and tourism in some parts of the world. In the pirate-ridden waters of the Indian Ocean, satellites show that environmental conditions have limited recent pirate activity. Attacks and hijackings of ships by Somali pirates in waters off the Horn of Africa have sharply increased in recent years, and show no sign of waning. Somali pirates account for over half of...

CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor is now being added to the ice mission’s repertoire. The main objective of the polar-orbiting CryoSat is to measure the thickness of polar sea ice and monitor changes in the ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica. But the satellite’s radar altimeter is not...

The Heart Rate Watch Company Blog had ultra-marathoner and mountain athlete John Yarrington test the new Suunto Ambit and the Polar RCX5 Run side by side over hundreds of training miles. The results showed that while foot pods are more accurate on the flats that GPS watch units are better in very hilly or mountainous terrain. Bozeman, MT (PRWEB) May 22, 2012 John Yarrington recently tested several different foot pod and GPS watches for the Heart Rate Watch Company Blog and his conclusions...