Notices

NGS Announces Release of Geodetic Data from Geoid Slope Validation Survey 2011 (GSVS11), 02.01.2013

NGS Releases Updated Ten-Year Strategic Plan 2013-2023, 01.24.2013

NGS Announces Joint Beta Release of GEOCON and GEOCON11, 01.18.2013

NGS updates "Bluebooking" process for GPS projects, 11.27.2012

DEFLEC12A and USDOV2012 Models Released, 10.19.2012

GEOID12A Model Released, 09.11.2012

In The News

02/14/2013 - U.S. Naval Academy Representatives Visit Silver Spring Campus

This week, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) hosted the Chair and soon-to-be Chair of the U.S. Naval Academy's (USNA) Oceanography Department. NGS provided an overview of the agency's mission and current projects, as well as hosted a roundtable discussion of topics of interest to the USNA curriculum...more

01/31/2013 - NGS Releases Updated Ten-Year Strategic Plan 2013-2023

As NGS approached the halfway point with our existing Ten-Year Plan (2008-2018), NGS leadership decided it was time to reevaluate priorities. Upon reviewing current business practices...more

01/24/2013 - Research Aims to Improve Airborne Positioning Accuracy (NGS)

The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) recently performed a research experiment to calibrate the GPS antenna on top of an aircraft used in the Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D) Project. Antenna calibration for ground-based geodetic GPS antennas greatly reduces positioning errors...more

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