GPS, GLOBAL SATELLITE POSITIONING, GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS
Thales Navigation is one of the world`s leading innovators of global satellite positioning (GPS), navigation, and guidance equipment with operations throughout the U.S. and Europe. Known for its popular Magellan, MLR, Ashtech, and DSNP brands, Thales Navigation offers a broad range of navigation solutions and positioning solutions. GPS applications include the location of food and oil resources, conservation efforts, city planning, finding our way across town, to the top of a mountain or sailing around the globe. The Magellan brand of consumer GPS solutions are for outdoor recreation, marine, and consumer electronics, while the Magellan brand of vehicle navigation solutions are intelligent transportation technologies.
GIS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, HERTZ NEVERLOST VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM
We market our Magellan brand GPS solutions in the consumer electronics, recreation, and automotive markets, and our GPS and GNSS solutions in the survey, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Mapping and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) markets. Through a joint venture with Hertz, Thales Navigation has developed the Hertz NeverLost vehicle navigation system. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Thales Navigation is a subsidiary of Thales, a leading professional electronics company headquartered in Paris, France, with activities in aerospace, defense and technology.
MAGELLAN GPS RECEIVER
Thales Navigation has the right Magellan GPS receiver at the right price for the serious navigator: the compact, rugged and lightweight SporTrak series; the MLR handheld or panel mount; the compact and affordable handheld 300 series with excellent positioning capability; the 750NAV vehicle mounted GPS, with full-featured navigation or the GPS Companion for your handheld.
Whether your outdoor adventures take you over land, water or through the skies, in your 4x4, boat, bike, glider, skis or on foot, Thales Navigation offers a Magellan GPS receiver optimized to allow you to get there and back. These adventures are dangerous if you`re not sure where you are or what to expect up ahead. Your Magellan GPS receiver guides you way while helping you avoid the hazards. Choose your adventure and then select the Magellan GPS receiver to meet your needs.
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
As you trek across those snow-covered backwoods, you need to know where you so that you`ll be able to return home safely from your cross-country skiing outing. GPS lets you know your position, direction, altitude, speed and distance to destination. Establish coordinates for a rendezvous with your fellow skiers and let your Magellan GPS receiver guide you there.
ADVENTURE RACING, CANOEING, MOUNTAIN BIKING
One of the fastest growing sports in the U.S., adventure racing is a multi-discipline endurance challenge. Each team must navigate toward the finish line, running, trekking, canoeing, rafting, climbing, rappelling and mountain biking, while finding checkpoints in sequence along the course.
GPS has become a vital tool in the preparation and training for such events, enabling competitors to track routes, check times on particulars legs, and monitor progress on the course. The Magellan SporTrak series is a favorite among athletes, due to its sleek, compact design and light weight.
HANG GLIDING
GPS receivers provide vital information for any hang gliding adventure, including position, direction, altitude, distance to target and land speed. From launch to landing you can easily keep track of your position, ground speed and altitude with your Magellan GPS receiver securely velcro-strapped to the down tube of your rig. Mark the waypoints of a competition to deftly fly the course, and stay safely on target, even when visibility is compromised. The MLR SP24 XC for free-flying is specifically designed to measure land speed and calculate glide ratio.
HIKING, BACKPACKING
Magellan GPS helps you plan your hiking or backpacking trip, plot your course, track your position and guide you back to base camp. Store your favorite get-away spot and let your Magellan GPS guide you there again and again. If you come across someone in trouble in the wilderness, you can let emergency services know their exact location. Magellan GPS receivers include mapping capabilities that allow you to view your location in relation to surrounding points of interest.
HUNTING
Whether you need to mark the location of your deer blind, or find your way back to that great duck-hunting spot in the Everglades, your Magellan GPS device can be your guide on a hunting trip. View your coordinates and location on your electronic map at every junction of the adventure. Easily navigate back to base camp if you get separated from the group.
With GPS you can communicate your location for an impromptu rendezvous with your fellow hunters. If something untoward should happen, GPS allows you to communicate your exact position to rescue teams. Many Magellan GPS receivers allow you to calculate the best hunting times in the wild, such as the time of sunrise and sunset.
OFF-ROAD DRIVING
GPS navigation can be the difference between off-road adventure and off-road calamity. If during off-road driving, you find that perfect mountain, back-road, marsh or desert flat, mark it with your Magellan GPS receiver. Save the location of the perfect place to set up camp and easily navigate back at the end of the rally or on the way home. Off road racers can use Magellan GPS receivers to mark danger areas that will cut time and save your vehicle. Establish rendezvous coordinates to meet up with your fellow off-roaders.
With GPS you can communicate your exact position to repair and rescue teams. Easily, quickly and safely navigate to the next checkpoint of the competition with the incomparable advantage of your Magellan SporTrak, Meridian, MLR, 750NAV or 300 series GPS receiver.
GPS adds a new level of fun to your mountain biking adventure by eliminating the hassles of navigation. The Magellan GPS receiver allows you to concentrate on your riding, keep your groove going in an ever-changing environment, and easily find rest stops, food, water and sightseeing locales along the way.
SNOWMOBILING
With all the excitement and changing terrain in hill climbing, cornice jumping and flat out racing in snowmobiling, it`s easy to get lost if you don`t take advantage of GPS technology. A Magellan GPS receiver will ensure that you always know exactly where you are and where you`re going. GPS allows you to easily navigate your way home, even if you are caught in a blizzard.
