Tag: USGS
USGS Webinar: Using The National Map Services to Enable your Web and Mobile Mapping Efforts
Are you a developer, firm, or organization using mobile or web applications to enable your users? The USGS has publicly available geospatial services and data to help you! The USGS’ National Geospatial Technical Operations Center (NGTOC) will be hosting a 30 minute Webinar on “Using The National Map services to enable your web and mobile…
USGS Landsat Update – Special Issue 1 January 2014
Landsat 8 Reprocessing Notice Beginning February 3, 2014, all Landsat 8 data held in the USGS archives will be reprocessed. All Landsat 8 scenes will be removed from the online cache at this time and the data will then be reprocessed starting with the most recent acquisitions and proceeding back to the beginning of the…
USGS The National Map Corps Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: Now a National Effort
Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: Now a National Effort The USGS continues to expand its crowd-sourcing of geographic data and is seeking volunteers nation-wide to contribute structures information The mapping crowd-sourcing program, known as The National Map Corps (TNMCorps), encourages citizens to collect structures data by adding new features, removing obsolete points, and correcting existing data for The National Map database. Structures being mapped in…
Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity: USGS National Atlas Streamer
In this week’s Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity I’d like to introduce you to a new mapping service from the USGS, part of the National Atlas, called Streamer. Navigate America’s Major Rivers Without Getting Wet
USGS Photos Reveal Severity of Hurricane Sandy’s Coastal Impacts
Photos Reveal Severity of Hurricane Sandy’s Coastal Impacts ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The USGS has released a series of aerial photographs showing before-and-after images of Hurricane Sandy’s impacts on the Atlantic Coast. The photos, part of a USGS assessment of coastal change from as far south as the Outer Banks of North Carolina to as far north…
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Releases New Heights of Accuracy for World Topography
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) have collaborated in the development of a much improved global elevation model, the Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010). GMTED2010 replaces the widely used, 15-year-old GTOPO30 terrain model as the best available global digital elevation model. Useful for regional-, continental-, and global-scale applications,…
Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints
Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 18, 2011
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18 USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online Sokkia Releases NET-AX Series of Automated Total Stations for 3D Monitoring LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda? Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network House Aviation Subcommittee…
USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online
Examining Our Past: Historical Map Collection Now Online Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as…
ASPRS Encourages Adoption of the National Land Imaging Program
ASPRS Encourages Adoption of the National Land Imaging Program ASPRS is working actively to support establishment of the National Land Imaging Program (NLIP), a long-range operational moderate resolution imaging program. For the past several years, ASPRS has strongly supported the NLIP strategy through continuing communication with the Administration and Congress, and fully endorses its immediate…
Professional Land Surveyor News-U.S. Geological Survey Awarded JAVAD GNSS up to $3.9M Contract
Professional Land Surveyor News-U.S. Geological Survey Awarded JAVAD GNSS up to $3.9M Contract The Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, has awarded contract G10PC00160 resulting from competitive solicitation 10WRSS0010 to JAVAD GNSS, Inc. of San Jose, CA. The contract is an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity contract for various configurations of GPS/GNSS receivers and antennas with a five…
China and Nepal Agree to Disagree on Height of Mount Everest
China and Nepal Agree to Disagree on Height of Mount Everest I came across an interesting article at the end of last week about how China and Nepal agreed to disagree on the exact height of Mount Everest. The Nepalese and Chinese governments negotiated last week to solve the 150 year old question, but in…
USGS Museum – Historical Artifacts and Equipment Related to the History of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Just a few land surveying photographs and images from the USGS I thought were interesting. I hope you enjoy them, too. Professional Land Surveyor Source USGS
Free U.S. Earth Imagery Sharpens Shared View of Global Challenges
USGS Director McNutt a Leader in U.S. Delegation at International Conference Free, easily accessible U.S. satellite data enables any citizen, scientist, or analyst who can use the information to contribute to a shared vision of the challenges facing our planet. That’s the message the newly-appointed director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Marcia McNutt, plans…
USGS CoreCast Podcast Series-EDMAP: Training the Next Generation of Geoscientists
EDMAP: Training the Next Generation of Geoscientists Geologic maps record the distribution of rock and soil materials at Earth’s surface and help decision makers identify and protect valuable resources, avoid risks from natural hazards, and make wise land use choices. Randy Orndorff, Associate Program Coordinator for the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, talks about…
Professional Land Surveyor News: USGS Offers $500,000 in Grants to Map the Nation
Professional Land Surveyor News: USGS Offers $500,000 in Grants to Map the Nation —Applications due Nov. 12, 2009— The U.S. Geological Survey will award up to $500,000 in grants and cooperative agreements for universities to help produce geologic maps for the nation. Interested professors can apply online to the EDMAP grant program under funding opportunity No.…
Landsat 5 Fully Operational After Brief Interruption
Landsat 5, the quarter-century-old satellite workhorse, is back in its traces. When the historically reliable earth observation satellite began tumbling in space on the morning of August 13, engineers from the USGS Landsat Flight Operations Team immediately started processes to protect the satellite and to restore capability. The spacecraft was stabilized quickly and recovery operations…
Landsat 5 Satellite is Now Stabilized and the Cause is Being Investigated
Satellite is Now Stabilized and the Cause is Being Investigated Landsat 5 tumbled out of control and power was at a critical level in the early morning of August 13. The cause for this anomaly is currently unknown and being investigated. The spacecraft has been stabilized after the USGS Landsat Flight Operations Team initiated recovery…
USGS Astrogeologists Contribute to “Moon in Google Earth”
Astrogeologists at the U.S. Geological Survey here provided critical data sets used in the latest release of planetary exploration tools from Google, Inc. The updated software enables users to explore the moon in high detail, including the Apollo 11 landing site. Google Inc. and NASA Ames Research Center consulted USGS scientists, cartographers, technicians, and programmers…
Price for USGS Topo Maps Rises
The price of the popular USGS 1:24,000 scale topographic quadrangle map – often called a “topo” or a “quad” – will go up $2 per sheet to $8 beginning today March 16, 2009. Larger format (“poster”) maps will go up $3 per sheet to $10. These prices were last increased 7 years ago.