Inside Look: Modernizing the National Spatial Reference System

The surveying industry in the United States is in the midst of a time of tremendous change, with the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) currently modernizing our National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). Thanks to the proliferation of new tools and technologies, such as strengthening GNSS, our previous NSRS did not reflect the accuracy with which we can measure points. Today, among other things, we can more accurately track the changing of coordinates over time and need a NSRS to reflect that.

As one would expect, it requires a tremendous amount of effort and manpower to undertake this massive task, and NGS has turned to other organizations for help. One of those organizations is the Geospatial Center for the Arctic and Pacific, who received a grant to assist with some of this work and with whom Geo Week News has connected this year for more insight into this process. This webinar will dive more into this process, touching on some of the impetus for this modernization effort, the processes undertaken to make it happen, and what surveyors and other geospatial professionals need to know as the modernization gets set to go into effect.

Register today to hear from those directly involved in this effort and make sure you have everything you need to know ahead of this next era of U.S. surveying.

Speakers

Chase Simpson, PLS 
Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University

Dan Gillins, Ph.D., P.L.S.
Chief of the Spatial Reference Systems Division, National Geodetic Survey

Moderator

Matt Collins
Content Specialist, Geo Week News