NGS: Successes, Leadership Summit, and Milestones

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NGS Successes, Leadership Summit, and Milestones

• By Acting NGS Director
• Dave Zilkoski

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Success Stories Towards Our Vision

• OAD new recruits, state advisors coming from
  Norfolk
• Greatly increased orbit accuracies
• Stellar Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
• Over 11,000 images posted on-line

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Success Stories (contd)

• Growth of Spatial Reference Centers
• California, Washington, Louisiana
• Potential in Texas and Wisconsin
• Innovative Partnerships
• FEMA, SWaPS, Google Earth
• Over 700 CORS sites

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Success Stories (contd)

• Continued increase in Congressional support for
  Height Mod
• KY, AL, SC, WI, WA, TX, MS, LA, NC, CA
• 2 millionth UFCORS package delivered
• Over 126,000 OPUS solutions in FY 2005

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Where Were Headed

• Continued focus on model and tool development,
  building outside capacity
• Budget is steadily showing increased support for
  Height Mod
• How can we implement regionally/nationally?
• Partnerships within NOAA to strengthen our
  connections to other Programs
• IOOS, IOCM
• Increased focus on milestones, performance
  measures

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Leadership Summit Results

• Hire Webmaster - Gordon Adams
• Evaluate infrastructure in light of possible
  real-time, etc. - Richard Snay
• Implement OPUS-DB, RS Projects - Neil Weston
• Completion and implementation of leveling
  software - Gordon Adams
• Develop real time CORS strategy - Neil Weston

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Leadership Summit Results

• Identify personnel needs/opportunities for
  employees for long-term training and educational
  opportunities - Dru Smith
• Make training materials available for NGS
  priorities and programs - Gilbert Mitchell
• Produce one DVD of Dave Doyles Workshops -
  Gilbert Mitchell
• Increase field presence/effectiveness of spatial
  reference centers - Gilbert Mitchell

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Leadership Summit Results

• Hiring Plan - Brian Taggart
• Hire gravity manager - Gerry Mader
• Increase number of State Advisors - Gilbert
  Mitchell
• NGS Director evaluates priorities. Clear
  statement of what they are and how Division
  Chiefs/Priority Leads interact - Dave Zilkoski

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Leadership Summit Results

• Centralize project tracking/proposal on-line -
  Brian Taggart
• Implement MIS - Gordon Adams
• Integrate MTS and Geodesy PBAs and staff support
  - Brian Taggart
• Prioritize NGS-wide activities based on politics,
  mission, requirements - Dave Zilkoski

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Leadership Summit Results

• Extend NGS expertise and experience to other
  accuracy regimes (GIS/POE/RS) - Mike Aslaksen
• Each Priority Lead identifies potential
  integration needs - Each Priority Lead
• Create Working group to identify the affects and
  impacts of GNSS - Richard Snay
• Development of ADCAT/datalogger - Mark Howard

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Leadership Summit Results

• Develop a plan for collection of gravity data
  across North America - Gerry Mader
• NGS Research plan development Geodesy and
  Remote Sensing - Dru Smith
• Develop 10 year comprehensive plan - Dru Smith

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2006 Milestones

• 100 CORS Stations delivering real-time data to
  NGS.
• Development of the vertical component of the NGS
  10 year plan, to include plans for a Geoid model,
  VDatum, aerial gravity, orthometric heights on
  CORS, redefinition of a national vertical datum,
  and other necessary components.

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2006 Milestones

• OPUS-Database (OPUS-DB) option available to
  public in Jan '06.
• OPUS-Rapid Static (OPUS-RS) initial operational
  capability in Jun '06.
• OPUS-Projects initial operational capability in
  Sep '06.
• Outreach through 25 Height Modernization User
  Forums, workshops, meetings, etc.

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2006 Milestones

• Publication and implementation of new CORS
  guidelines.
• Award grants and work for 14 states for Geodetic
  Survey and Height Modernization efforts.
• National Readjustment Web Page developed and
  posted on NGS web site

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2006 Milestones

• Develop QA/QC guidelines and standards to meet
  FAA's request to quality assure airport surveys
  completed by private surveying firms.
• Complete and deliver 150 Area Navigation Approach
  (ANA) LPV obstruction surveys for the FAA WAAS
  Program office and
• Complete 45 Airport Obstruction Chart surveys for
  the FAA Aeronautical Information Services
  Division (ATA-100).

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