NEW MEXICO

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Height Modernization in New Mexico
by William Stone
New Mexico State Geodetic Advisor
National Geodetic Survey
February, 2006

The Height Modernization Program ball is beginning to roll across New Mexico. Several of the state’s surveyors were introduced to the program in June, 2004, when they attended a presentation by National Geodetic Survey personnel at a joint New Mexico Professional Surveyors – Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado technical meeting in Durango, CO. Since that New Mexico introduction to the program, there has been considerable discussion – on the part of state agencies, academia, and the private sector – about initiating some height modernization activity in the state. The March, 2006, annual convention of New Mexico Professional Surveyors will include a Height Modernization Program session, presented by Earl Burkholder, a professor in the Department of Surveying Engineering at New Mexico State University, and William Stone, the National Geodetic Survey’s State Geodetic Advisor in New Mexico. This session will present an overview of the Height Modernization Program and will serve as a venue to discuss the ideas of people with an interest in becoming involved. The next step will be to schedule a height modernization forum, which will involve presentations by National Geodetic Survey personnel involved in the program as well as people from other states that have already ventured into the height modernization arena.

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