Washington Monument GPS
Height Modernization Project
August 17 - 19, 1999
Using state-of-the-art
Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and other specialized gear, geodesists
and technicians from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will take hundreds
of measurements at the top of the monument.
www.ngs.noaa.gov/INFO/Washmon/
Updated: 08 Sept
2003
The
Washington monument is 114 years old and today it's
getting a space age address" Dr. D. James Baker,
Administrator of NOAA