You are invited to listen in to a panel discussion between NGS and other federal and industry leaders at the GeoGov 2024 Summit on September 10th at 11am EST on the challenges, benefits, opportunities, and rollout of the modernized National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). The panel will be moderated by Brad Kearse, Deputy Director of NGS. Rachael Dempsey, Deputy Assistant Administrator for NOAA’s National Ocean Service will provide opening remarks. Panel members will include:
- Dan Roman – Senior Advisor For Geodesy at NGS
- Dana Caccamise – NGS Pacific Southwest Regional Geodetic Advisor
- Tim Burch – Executive Director of National Society of Professional Surveyors
- Josh Novac – Senior Geospatial Technology Manager with Dewberry
- Linda Foster – Director, Land Records/Cadastre Solutions at Esri
- Mike Tischler – Director of the National Geospatial Program (NGP) at the U.S. Geological Survey
Due to the high level of interest, this session is being made available for remote participation by Geospatial World, however it will not be recorded. The following link is available for those wishing to listen to the panel discussion:
Microsoft Teams
Meeting ID: 435 184 550 245
Passcode: UJzpwW
Background: The modernized NSRS is planned to be approved in 2026, at which point all federal agencies will be required to adopt it as the foundational component of their geospatial infrastructure. A beta version of the modernized NSRS is planned to be released in 2025 for testing and feedback by stakeholders.
The NSRS is the foundational component of our national spatial data infrastructure. In the next few years, every survey, map, lidar point cloud, aerial image, digital elevation model, and other critical geospatial datasets and products, will have outdated coordinates. For the first time in over 30 years, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey will release a modernized version of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), the authoritative system of latitude, longitude, heights, and the national shoreline that serves as the foundation for all US federal maps and geospatial products. Not only will the modernized system provide billions of dollars worth of benefits through increased accuracy, national consistency, workflow efficiency, and data interoperability, federal law requires that federal agencies comply with this new standard. This change will have far reaching implications for the use of federal funds for surveying, mapping and production of geospatial products. Evaluating and addressing the impacts of these changes for existing data, products, and geospatial workflows will require time and resources, so NOW is the time to begin planning for the transition to the modernized system.
