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Recently, a number of requests related to Elevation Certificates have been received at NSPS headquarters via the NSPS website "Contact Form." In one case, the inquirer noted that they had been notified by FEMA that they may be eligible for a reduction in flood insurance premiums by contacting a Professional Surveyor to provide an elevation certificate. NSPS staff has researched the matter further and found that the "notification" (whether sent by FEMA, or just found on their website) is actually a fact sheet. The fact sheet says "Contact a surveyor from your National Society of Professional Surveyors state affiliate: nsps.us.com), but doesn't link to the NSPS website page where one can find their state affiliate. The fact sheet also links to a download for the elevation certificate.
In any case, it appears that land owners are finding the fact sheet, and are interested in procuring the services of a Professional Surveyor. When requests come in to NSPS headquarters, staff directs the requester to the state affiliate in their state. Hopefully, many of you are getting work from this.
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NSPS
A May 3, 2017 article, "History Hunters in Search of Michigan's Survey Legacy," posted in NSPS News & Views discussed "more than 200 years ago, surveyors accompanied by chainmen, axe men, hunters, and cooks set out across the land now known as Michigan to chart and mark the land for settling. Today, surveyors, equipped with trucks, shovels, GPS, and excavation equipment, are walking in the footsteps of their predecessors to find evidence of that original work through a program called remonumentation."
Host Curt Sumner will be joined by Gary Hahn, Greg Vaughn, and Kevin Miedema to discuss elements of the Michigan "remonumentation" program.
To listen to archives of previous shows, visit americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour.
NSPS
The United States Senate last week passed S. 110, the "Digital Coast Act of 2017" by unanimous consent. Sponsored by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the NSPS-supported bill establishes a constituent-driven program to provide a digital geospatial information platform capable of efficiently integrating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best practices and to support local, State, regional, and Federal capacities to manage economic growth and resilience in the coastal region.
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NSPS
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Mark Warner (D-VA) were joined last week by Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) in joint introduction of S. 1253, the "Geospatial Data Act" which is a bill to improve the coordination and use of geospatial data. NSPS successfully negotiated revisions in the bill to move responsibility for chair of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to the Office of Management and Budget within the executive Office of the President, to establish a statutory role for private sector utilization while clarifying, broadening and codifying application of the Brooks Act; and establish the primacy of state law on licensure of surveyors.
NSPS
A recently introduced bipartisan bill is attempting to bring the regulation of UAS down to the local level. S. 1272, the Drone Federalism Act of 2017, would establish a process for federal, state, local and tribal governments to work together to manage the use of recreational and commercial drones. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) allows communities to create low-altitude speed limits, local no-drone zones or rules that are appropriate to their own circumstances. Feinstein has long been a critic of drone technology who has impeded efforts to expand commercial activities. The bill would be a significant departure from some 60 years of law that "the United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States" (49 USC § 40103).
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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.
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Report submitted by Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM
In the interim since the full group's last meeting, the three subgroups have been working on our assigned pieces of responses to the letter from Roy Wright, Deputy Associate Administrator Administrator. Because of disagreements between the FEMA TMAC representative and other TMAC members about what we were being asked to address, several additional interactions between FEMA and the members of the future conditions subgroup resulted in what the chair of that study group termed as FEMA taking another bite of the apple (expanding the request even further).
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Inside GNSS
The Virginia firm that had been hoping to use satellite frequencies near the GPS band to support a terrestrial broadband network has changed its pitch to regulators. Ligado, previously named LightSquared, is working to convince the Federal Communications Commission that its frequencies are the way to provide connectivity to the broad Internet of Things including unmanned aircraft, driverless cars and other unmanned systems.
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GPS World
The laser. It might not be in the top 10 of the most important inventions of all time, but Time magazine rated it among the most important developments of the 20th century, listing it fifth after the automobile, the radio, the television and the transistor. Lasers are now ubiquitous: they scan our purchases at the supermarket checkout; they let us read and write data on compact discs; they have replaced the scalpel in many operating theaters; and they play major roles on the battlefield with laser-guided munitions.
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Directions Magazine
Unmanned vehicles, aerial, ground-based or marine, are reshaping and disrupting the mapping and geospatial technology industry. Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are capable of freeing GIS professionals from the bounds of "line of sight." The ability to remotely capture earth observation imagery with lightweight and relatively inexpensive sensors is freeing capital from more expensive data collection methods.
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Sensors & Systems
A new report from Northern Sky Research, Polar Satellite Markets, 2ndEdition, shows more than $1.7 billion in revenue growth generated by the Arctic and Antarctic regions across a range of applications and frequency bands, driven by new bandwidth and capacity opportunities. Maritime demand will drive the growth of this nascent market, resulting in a twelve-fold increase of commercial mobility capacity revenues alone between 2015-2025, albeit from a low base.
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