Announcements
NGS Releases Beta LOCUS for Testing
NGS has released a Beta version of the Leveling Online Computations User Service, LOCUS, for a 90-day comment period. Through the end of March 2012, NGS is requesting our stakeholders and constituents to test their leveling projects with LOCUS and provide feedback to us at...more
NGS Announces New Photo Submission Guidelines:
http://geodesy.noaa.gov/web/surveys/photo_submissions/
NGS Releases Final Report for Floodplain Mapping Pilot Project
As NGS moves closer to 2022 and replacing the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), NGS is interacting closely with agencies that use the datums to assist in the transition...more
Notice: Planned Updates to NGS Datasheet Format
In response to stakeholder and NGS staff concerns, NGS has developed several modifications to the format of the NGS datasheet—the primary method for accessing the passive control network of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS)...more
Trial Version of the New NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer Available:
http://beta.ngs.noaa.gov/shoreline_raster
2010 Federal Geospatial Summit Proceedings on Improvements to the National Spatial Reference System available:
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/2010Summit/proceedings.shtml
A 2009 independent study shows the benefits to the U.S. economy from NOAA's positioning products and services are in the billions of dollars.
Click here for a one page overview of the study
Click here for a copy of the full report
In The News
01/26/2012 - CORS Provides More than $1 Billion in Direct Benefits in FY2011
The National Geodetic Survey's Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) program provided more than $1 billion in direct benefits in FY2011. These benefits represent a 29 percent increase over those for FY2010...more
01/19/2012 - NGS developing GIS Tools and Datasets for Display and Analysis of Survey Data
NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is in the process of developing new Geographic Information System (GIS) software tools for display and analysis of NGS survey data. The tools convert the output from NGS GPS processing, survey control network adjustment, and geodetic leveling adjustment software...more
01/12/2012 - Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee Meeting Updates Users on NGS Products and Services
The Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee (FGCS) conducted its semi-annual meeting on January 10 at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. FGCS is chaired by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS)...more
