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The latest Get Kids Into Survey! Forestry and Civil posters are now available! Posters can be ordered at www.getkidsintosurvey.com. The Smart Cities and Mining posters are also still available.
Contact Trish Milburn if you have any questions or would like larger quantities.
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NSPS encourages members to plan their NSW activities around the "Get Kids Into Survey" theme, planning activities that demostrate to youngsters (and their parents) the importance of Surveyors to the public at large.
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For more information and sponsorship opportunities, visit https://www.nsps.us.com/page/2019HillDay.
Come share the experience with fellows Surveyors from around the country and visit with your national legislators. It's fun, too! Just ask Jim Coan, NSPS Director-Washington!
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Tune in to hear a wrap up from a Feb. 1 meeting of the NSPS Government Affairs team related to a variety of issues about which NSPS has an interest. NSPS Government Affairs Chair Pat Smith, NSPS Lobbyist JB Byrd, and NSPS Government Affairs consultant John Palatiello will join host Curt Sumner.
Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs. To listen to archives of previous shows, visit americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour.
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On January 25, President Trump signed a short-term spending bill to re-open the government, ending the longest partial federal government shutdown (35 days) in U.S. history. Trump signed the stop-gap spending bill just hours after the measure passed the Senate and House, respectively. H.J. Res. 28, the "Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019," includes a short-term continuing resolution that provides fiscal year 2019 appropriations through Feb. 15, 2019, for continuing projects and activities of the Federal Government included in the remaining seven appropriations bills. The deal for a short-term spending bill keeps the government open until Feb. 15.
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NSPS Federal Lobbyist John "JB" Byrd last week attended a panel event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center featuring U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Administrator, Dr. Linda Capuano. The topic of the panel was the release of the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO). This covers transportation infrastructure as well as pipeline infrastructure related to fossil fuels and exporting crude oil, solar, wind, and any other kind of energy source. JB asked the Administrator about the agency's data coordination with USGS 3DEP focused on "Energy" and "Pipeline Safety". His question and her reply can be caught on the YouTube footage in segment 48:55-50:30.
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The most important criterion for a good tripod is its stability – specifically the torsional rigidity. Besides that valuable attribute, some other substantial benefits of the original tripods from Leica Geosystems are height stability under load and minimal horizontal drift. Additional advantages include long life, optimal vibration dampening, water resistance, outstanding behavior in solar radiation and weight in relation to load-bearing capacity.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has formally released an important resource guide, “Engineering with Nature: An Atlas.” It’s an important first step toward broadening understanding, consideration and acceptance of natural infrastructure as a flood risk reduction and resilience strategy. The glossy compendium of 56 Corps projects illustrates that restoring nature and using nature-based features and processes – such as dunes, wetlands, reefs, functioning floodplains and rivers – can efficiently yield real economic, environmental and social benefits. The 2018 Water Resources Development Act included Section 1149 which directs the Corps to consider use of natural infrastructure, alone or in conjunction with traditional infrastructure, where practicable for flood risk management or hurricane and storm damage reduction projects. This clear nod from Congress should bolster confidence that solutions involving natural infrastructure are acceptable – not to be relegated to mitigation or environmental restoration.
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Representative Greg Pence (R-IN), a newly elected member of Congress from the 6th District of Indiana and brother to Vice President Mike Pence, recently met with NSPS lobbyist John "JB" Byrd. Appointed to serve on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Pence has served in the Marines and as a small businessman. JB and the Congressman discussed the importance of surveying data for infrastructure projects.
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The American Surveyor
The Global Positioning System Directorate has released a Federal Register Notice announcing plans to execute a test in February 2019 to investigate legacy receiver week roll-over behavior and analyze any off-nominal behavior exhibited.
The Global Positioning System week number rollover occurs in the GPS legacy navigation message every 1,024 weeks due to the GPS week number being represented by only 10 bits within the LNAV message.
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GIM International
The FIG president holds one of the most influential positions in the surveying field and helps to shape the profession. The new president, Rudolf Staiger, was elected during the Istanbul Congress in 2018 and officially took office for a period of four years in November. In this interview, GIM International asks him about his views on the profession, now and in the future, and also about who Rudolf Staiger actually is.
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Geospatial World
LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, is a popular remote sensing method used for measuring the exact distance of an object on the earth's surface. Even though it was first used in the 1960s when laser scanners were mounted to aeroplanes, LiDAR didn't get the popularity it deserved until 20 years later. It was only during the 1980s after the introduction of GPS that it became a popular method for calculating accurate geospatial measurements.
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Inside GNSS
With Galileo services such as high-accuracy service and commercial authentication service on E6-B/C signal coming around the corner, the European GNSS Service Centre has made available the main specifications of the Galileo E6-B and E6-C codes to the User Community.
The GSC just published "Galileo E6-B/C Codes Technical Note" on the GSC web portal.
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No matter what the future holds, prepare to meet challenges head on. Future-proof your resume by becoming a Certified Survey Technician (CST). This unique four-level certification program indicates official recognition by NSPS that a person can perform surveying tasks at a specific technical level.
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit http://www.cstnsps.com for details.
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Did you know that the CST Program can be used to train staff?
GPS World
The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, a satellite-based augmentation system, provides corrections and integrity information to GPS signals over Europe and is fully interoperable with other SBAS such as North America's WAAS. Among its services is the internet-based EGNOS Data Access Service.
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CBS News
For decades, the U.S. has relied on spy satellites to look deep into the territory of American adversaries, and for years, these were the cameras dominating Earth's orbit.
Not anymore.
As David Martin reports on "60 Minutes," there are now commercial companies putting small satellites in space and allowing customers to purchase panoramic images of Earth.
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