NGS provided training to staff at the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) and local partners to help them establish vertical control (a series of points on which precise heights, or elevations, have been established) at the site. This will make it possible to monitor changes in water levels, wetland elevations, and other vertically sensitive data... more
NGS's Dru Smith, interviewed for Atlas Obscura, described geodetic control points located around the nation's capital. The first online article highlights the Mini Monument, positioned near the base of the Washington Monument in the 1880's... more
NGS released the latest issue of its popular constituent newsletter, NSRS Modernization News, which focuses on key decisions made both internally, as well as in conjunction with the Canadian Geodetic Survey. Specifically, these decisions involve... more