Height Modernization

Monthly Height Modernization Coordination Meeting

2011 Presentation and Meeting Notes Archive


At monthly meetings, speakers are invited to give presentations or facilitate discussions on various topics related to Height Modernization. The presentations add value to the meeting, educate constituents about NGS activities, and gather feedback from users of NGS projects. 

View the 2011 schedule, presentations, and notes below.
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January 13, 2011
January 2011 Calendar

VDatum: Harmonizing America's Elevation Data

Douglas Brown, National Geodetic Survey

Mr. Brown presently serves on the NGS Director's Staff as a senior advisor for planning and management. He is also responsible for managing the Vertical Datum Transformation (VDatum) Program, a joint effort of NOAA's Navigation Services program offices.
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February 10, 2011
February 2011 Calendar

Orthometric Heights through Real-Time Networks

William Henning, National Geodetic Survey
Lewis A. Lapine, South Carolina Geodetic Survey

Mr. Henning presently works with the NGS Spatial Reference Systems Division and leads Real-Time Network programming efforts at NGS. Dr. Lapine is presently an Adjunct Professor at Midlands Technical College and the University of South Carolina.
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March 10, 2011
March 2011 Calendar

NOAA's Aeronautical Survey Program

Mark Howard, National Geodetic Survey

Mr. Howard is the Program Leader for the Aeronautical Survey Program. NGS, in partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), supports airport geodetic control, runway, navigational aid, obstruction, and other aeronautical data that is critical to the operation of the National Airspace System.
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April 14, 2011
March 2011 Calendar

Height Modernization and GIS

Michael Dennis, National Geodetic Survey

The vertical component of geospatial data is becoming increasingly important in GIS for a wide range of applications. This presentation will provide a brief overview of vertical data in GIS, and it will show how Height Modernization results can be used in GIS to assess topographic surface model accuracy.
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May 12, 2011
May 2011 Calendar

Updated coordinates and velocities for NGS Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS)

Giovanni Sella, National Geodetic Survey

Dr. Sella is the CORS Program Manager at NGS, and he will discuss the CORS coordinates from the multi-year CORS solution. The updated coordinates and velocities, both horizontal and vertical, use the latest models, methods, and orbits.
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June 9, 2011
June 2011 Calendar

Network of Sea Level Rise Sentinel Sites within NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRS)

Galen Scott, National Geodetic Survey

Mr. Scott leads the NGS Ecosystem and Climate Operations (ECO) Team, and he will discuss the ongoing efforts to establish sentinel sites to monitor sea level rise within NERRS. Fundamental to this
project is establishing high accuracy, local geodetic and tidal control
at each site.
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July 21, 2011 [Date change to avoid conflicts with ESRI]
July 2011 Calendar

Planning for the new Geometric and Geopotential Datums

Joe Evjen, National Geodetic Survey
Mark Eckl, National Geodetic Survey

Mr. Evjen and Mr. Eckl are the Project Managers for the new Geometric and Geopotential Datums, respectively. While the datums will not replace NAD 83 and NAVD 88 for a number of years, careful planning and preparation must occur to ensure a smooth transition for all users.
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*No August meeting was held.

 

September 8, 2011
September 2011 Calendar

DSWorld Demonstration

Malcolm Archer-Shee, National Geodetic Survey

DSWorld plots NGS network points by state, county and type (vertical or horizontal) in Google Earth. Malcolm Archer-Shee, the developer of DSWorld, is currently working as a subcontractor for NGS as a software developer and instructor.
Presentation was a live demonstration; no powerpoint available.
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October 13, 2011
October 2011 Calendar

U-SMART: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Survey Monument Archival and Retrieval Tool Demonstration

Mark Huber, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

U-SMART is a web based map interface with a database of USACE survey control that facilitates compliance with current regulations to document project control referenced to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). The system, which is available to the public, also displays NSRS control points including CORS and OPUS-DB, as well
as NOAA, USGS, and USACE gauges.
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November 10, 2011
November 2011 Calendar

NGS Online Project Submission Process

Julie Prusky, National Geodetic Survey

Submitting survey data to be incorporated into the NSRS can be a challenging process. NGS will soon require bluebooked projects to be submitted online, and its progress can be monitored by the submitter. This presentation will demonstrate how to take advantage of this new process.
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December 8, 2011
December 2011 Calendar

Analyzing the National Adjustment of 2011 using GIS

Michael Dennis, National Geodetic Survey

The National Adjustment of 2011 (NA2011) Project currently underway will yield updated NAD 83 coordinates on nearly 80,000 NGS passive control marks positioned using GNSS technology. This presentation will give preliminary NA2011 results and show how GIS technology is being used for analysis and display of these results.
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