The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is a United States federal agency based in Washington, D.C. that defines and manages a national coordinate system, providing...
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Survey markers, also called survey marks, survey monuments, or geodetic marks, are objects placed to mark key survey points on the Earth's surface. They...
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UV4136. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 4 May 2016. "WHITNEY". Datasheet for NGS Station GT1811. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 4 May...
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States Coast and Geodetic Survey (abbreviated USC&GS; known as the Survey of the Coast from 1807 to 1836, and as the United States Coast Survey from 1836 until...
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NGS Station UV4136. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. "WHITNEY". Datasheet for NGS Station GT1811. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. "BOUNDARY POINT 180". Datasheet...
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(NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If the elevation or prominence of a summit is calculated...
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(NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If the elevation or prominence of a summit is calculated...
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geodetic coordinates Geodetic datum Geodesics on an ellipsoid Planetary coordinate system National Geodetic Survey (U.S.).; National Geodetic Survey (U...
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United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System @ USGS United States National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geodetic Glossary @ NGS NGVD...
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information from Wikivoyage National Geodetic Survey Finding Survey Marks and Datasheets United States Geological Survey National Map Search Elevation Point...
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among the earliest in the federal government: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807 Weather Bureau of the United States, formed in 1870...
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United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System @ USGS United States National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geodetic Glossary @ NGS NGVD...
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(NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If the elevation or prominence of a summit is calculated...
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The National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 is the official name since 1973 of the vertical datum established for vertical control surveying in the United...
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United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System @ USGS United States National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geodetic Glossary @ NGS NGVD...
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Geographic center of the United States (category Historic surveying landmarks in the United States)
regarded as such by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS) since the additions of Alaska and Hawaii to...
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A geodetic datum or geodetic system (also: geodetic reference datum, geodetic reference system, or geodetic reference frame, or terrestrial reference...
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(NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If an elevation or prominence is calculated as a range of...
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The World Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard used in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS. The current version, WGS 84, defines...
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(NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If the elevation or prominence of a summit is calculated...
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United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System @ USGS United States National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geodetic Glossary @ NGS NGVD...
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Acre (redirect from Survey acre)
definitions to be detectable. In October 2019, the US National Geodetic Survey and the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced their...
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(NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Survey note. If the elevation or prominence of a summit is calculated...
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The National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), managed by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), is a coordinate system that includes latitude, longitude...
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Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps on May 22, 1917, which the service recognizes as its official date of establishment. The Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps became...
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United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System @ USGS United States National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geodetic Glossary @ NGS NGVD...
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Geodesy (redirect from Geodetic survey)
and national control networks, applying space geodesy and terrestrial geodetic techniques, and relying on datums and coordinate systems. Geodetic job...
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Foot (unit) (redirect from U.S. survey foot)
the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) by NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS). The reason for associating the deprecation of the U.S. survey foot...
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(CO-OPS) National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Office of Coast Survey (OCS) Office for Coastal Management (OCM) National Geodetic Survey (NGS)...
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Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland United States The National Geodetic Survey (NGS; formerly United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) The...
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