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Program Description:
In 2025, two federal agencies, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), will deliver new and improved horizontal and vertical geodetic and tidal datums for the country. These enhancements will embrace significant advancements in earth orientation measurement systems and reflect high levels of interagency collaboration to provide more accurate and contemporary positional and height information detailing the foundation of the National Spatial Reference System. The community of professional surveyors will be relied upon to provide a significant leadership role in the adoption of these new systems to a vast array of other disciplines in the private and public sectors at the local, state, and national levels. It will be important for these professionals to understand the rationale for this effort and the magnitude of changes expected in geodetic and tidal heights, together with the introduction of significant changes in the State Plane Coordinate System. This presentation will discuss the foundations for these changes and demonstrate datum transformation and coordinate conversion tools to estimate the magnitude of these changes across the country and, specifically, the impacts on the Washington State Reference Network (WSRN).
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