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Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM
The purpose of this two day virtual meeting was to review the draft of the TMAC report on reviewing the technical aspects of what the Biggert Waters Act of 2012 has named the National Flood Mapping Program, whichthe Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 has required TMAC to assess. READ Full report
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On May 31, SBA published the final rule, effective June 30, implementing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013. These changes impact size status and teaming relationships between large and small businesses.
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 Recently, ALTA/NSPS Committee Chair Gary Kent was asked by a representative of HeroX to participate in a conversation related to barriers to the automation of the process for completing and delivering ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys. HeroX exists to enable anyone, anywhere in the world, to create a challenge that addresses any problem or opportunity, build a community around that challenge, and activate the circumstances that can lead to a breakthrough innovation. HeroX incentive prize challenges are designed to do the same — to harness the collective mind power of a community to innovate upon any problem or opportunity.
Gary along with Nidhi Chaudhary, VP of Challenge Success for HeroX, will join host Curt Sumner for a conversation about how HeroX works.
If you are unable to listen to the show when it is being broadcast, listen to the archive of the show at americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour. Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs.
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Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill, previously approved in the House of Representatives, to reauthorize the federal pipeline safety oversight board, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature. In addition to extending the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the bill also makes changes to PHMSA safety policies, including an effort to provide more insight into the regulatory process and give the Department of Transportation more power in the event of pipeline emergencies. It also directs the PHMSA to finalize regulations Congress directed it to write in its 2011 reauthorization measure. Significant to NSPS, it includes a provision on using geospatial technology to improve mapping and location data. The bill was a bipartisan product in both the Senate and the House, which passed it unanimously last week. Sponsors of the Senate bill, Sens. Deb Fischer (R-NE) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), hailed the bill as an important step toward improving the safety of the federal pipeline network. “It will also provide greater resources for state and local pipeline safety officials,” Fischer said. Of importance to professional surveyors, the bill ensures coordination and collaboration on pipeline mapping, research, development, and technology between PHMSA, industry, and public stakeholders. NSPS supported provisions strengthening geolocation data for pipelines and other underground utility infrastructure through enhanced underground utility location data requirements.
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 NSPS lobbyist John "JB" Byrd earlier this week met with Scott Angelle (R), a candidate for Congress from the 3rd district of Louisiana, an open seat currently held by Rep. Charles Boustany (R) who is running for the U.S. Senate. Angelle has a degree in Petroleum Land Management and his business career has included strategic planning, risk management, and petroleum land management. He was appointed by Gov. Kathleen Blanco in 2004 as Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Chairman of the State's Mineral Board and reappointed to those posts by Gov. Bobby Jindal in 2008, making him the first DNR Secretary to serve governors of different parties. At DNR, he focused on improving levee board governance, coastal management and restoration, making Louisiana a more attractive province for oil and gas investment, environmental legacy lawsuit reform, and managing the state-owned mineral assets and water resources. Knowledgeable about LiDAR technology and the importance of elevation data, Angelle told NSPS’s Byrd that "elevation is the salvation of inundation." In 2010, he was appointed as the 52nd Lt. Governor followed by a unanimous confirmation by both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature. During his tenure as Interim Lieutenant Governor, he was the state's point person to negotiate an end to the Gulf of Mexico drilling moratorium and provided the leadership to help streamline federal oil and gas permitting. Louisiana's state primary will be held on the general election day, Nov. 8.
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Ligado Networks, which earlier this year changed its name from LightSquared, is moving forward with plans to tap its 1.6 GHz spectrum holdings in an attempt to launch "5G" network services. The company said this week it filed details of its plans with the Federal Communications Commission for using its controversial spectrum holdings to "accelerate the move to 5G" to tap 40 megahertz of mid-band spectrum to support mobile broadband deployments outside current GPS operations. Ligado currently controls around 40 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.6 GHz band initially tied to the company's ongoing operation of a satellite-based communications system, and has been attempting to garner approval for using some of that spectrum for a ground-based wireless network. LightSquared late last year emerged from bankruptcy protection precipitated by the FCC's refusal to grant the company access to its spectrum licenses due to interference concerns with some GPS equipment radiating outside of GPS channels. LightSquared was attempting to use the spectrum as part of a "4G" network deployment plan with Sprint that would have seen it resell access to third parties. Steps in the current proposal are said to include using 10 megahertz of spectrum nearest to GPS transmission strictly for satellite communications; a promise to the Federal Aviation Administration to maintain transmission power at levels that would not interfere with airline communications; support for an auction of spectrum adjacent to the upper band controlled by Ligado, though require the winning bidder to fund "the creation of and transition to a high-speed Internet access and cloud-based distribution of weather data."
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USIBD
USIBD is holding its 2nd Annual Symposium, "Discovering the Built Environment" on Oct. 16-17 at the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, bringing together professionals from all corners of the Building Documentation industry in a day of QUICK FIRE sessions from fellow professionals working in the Building Documentation trenches.
Click here to submit abstracts for 20-minute presentations from those working in architecture, engineering, surveying, heritage, contracting, construction management, building ownership, education, manufacturing, the media, and hardware and software development.
Submission format: Executive Summary, not to exceed 500 words.
Submission deadline: July 1, 11:50 p.m. PDT.
USDA Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service's Intermountain Region will soon be filling a Supervisory Land Surveyor (GS-1373-11/12) position for the Boundary and Title Management (B&TM) Nevada Zone Lead. This position is located at the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (HTNF) Supervisors Office in Sparks, Nevada. The Intermountain Region covers 32 million acres in the National Forest System across Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho, and western Wyoming. This position has two critical components: land surveying and title management. Respond to: bacraig@fs.fed.us or 801-625-5226.
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Employment opportunities
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Upcoming seminars/conferences
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Sensors & Systems
As the growth of cities worldwide transforms humans into an "urban species," many scholars question the sustainability of modern urbanization. But, in reality, there aren't much data on long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns.
A new Yale-led study offers fresh clarity on these historical trends, providing the first spatially explicit dataset of the location and size of urban settlements globally over the past 6,000 years.
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The American Surveyor
By John Stock, PS, CFM: As NSPS President in 1986, I was invited to the NCEES annual conference in St. Louis. Area 5 Director Chuck Tapley (now deceased) was with me. Wow! What a lesson for a dirt surveyor from Colorado. Black tie, buttoned down and totally controlled behind the scenes by ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers). One issue for discussion and the reason I was there was concerning certain proposed laws and rules in Florida about what engineers could do and what surveyors could do legally. (Think money).
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Directions Magazine
There is a pervasive and underlying feeling that commercial drone operations will flourish once the FAA finalizes regulations. This may only be half true because the rate of growth is solution specific. Put another way, the speed that unmanned aerial systems are adopted depends on whether the offering is a product or service. In this article we'll look at some of the markets prosumer drones are most likely to impact and explain why there is significant growth disparity between drone products and drone services.
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xyHt
Networking for fun. Meeting new people in the geospatial profession (and especially those interested in the profession) is both fun and educational. Surveying (and writing about surveying) can be a lonely job, and it's a pleasure to rub elbows with others in the field. It's educational to compare notes and pick other professionals' brains on the challenges geospatial professionals face.
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