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An accident and explosion in Alabama on a 5,500 mile Texas-to-New York pipeline this week was caused when “work-crew equipment struck one of the lines". Such incidents continue to attract national news media attention. Pipelines in the United States could encircle the Earth 25 times. Statistics show that for the last 20 years, gas pipeline incidents have hurt or kill someone every other day and the American Public Works Association estimates that an underground utility line is hit somewhere in the United States every 60 seconds. Earlier this year, Congress passed the PIPES Act, supported by NSPS, to enhance certain pipeline safety features, including location data. Better location data, through surveying and mapping services, would help prevent these all-too-frequent accidents.
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NSPS and MAPPS have announced the two organizations will jointly host a national surveying, mapping and geospatial conference, March 13-17, 2017 at the Sheraton Hotel in Silver Spring, Maryland. The conference will focus on the profession in private practice, technological innovations and collaboration, and public policy, and include NSPS board, committee and business meetings.
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Because TMAC staggered two-year terms begin October 1, there were six new individuals on TMAC during this meeting to replace six who decided not to accept renewal of their appointments. The focus of the October meeting was to review content of Chapters for the TMAC 2016 Annual Report to see where work is needed on the text to support the recommendations and implementation actions that TMAC is promoting this year. (Implementation actions are recommendations to help FEMA implement recommendations that TMAC has made in its prior reports.) The schedule for completing additional writing for this report over the coming weeks runs through December 5. During an in-person meeting scheduled for December 13 and 14 TMAC will be finalizing its 2016 Annual Report.
All three of TMAC’s currently published reports (2015 Annual Report, 2015 Future Conditions Report, 2016 National Flood Mapping Program Review) are available through FEMA’s websites at this URL:
https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/111853.
NOTE from NSPS: Wendy has indicated that at the end of her current two-year term from 2016-2018 she will want to step down (by October 2018). Accordingly, NSPS needs to soon identify someone to take on this role in order for that person to spend some time with Wendy in preparation for taking on this important appointment.
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Stuart Warnock is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor and Geographic Information Systems Professional with over a decade of experience managing projects in the land development, oil & gas, transportation, water, waste water, and electric industries. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Tyler, the Owner and Principal of Pioneer Mapping in Fort Worth, Texas, and is actively involved in the Young Surveyors Network in Texas. Join Host Curt Sumner for a conversation with Stuart.
To listen to archives of previous shows, visit americaswebradio.com/nsps-radio-hour. Archives for each show are typically available for listening within a few days after the show airs.
Maryland Society of Surveyors
As a follow up to a relationship that was reported in NSPS News & Views (September 7) the office of the Mayor of the City of Baltimore is partnering with the Maryland Society of Surveyors and its Baltimore Chapter to develop a pilot program in surveying for a high school class. The class will introduce students to the field and help expose the next generation to a career in surveying. MSS Immediate Past President and workforce development chair TJ Frazier had sent the NSPS-drafted model email to Career and Technical Education (CTE) officials in the Maryland Department of Education, and Baltimore Chapter Chairman Bryan Haynie contacted the city’s workforce development board. As a result, Frazier has had two meetings with state officials to plan surveying curricula throughout the state. Frazier and Haynie were invited to meet with Baltimore City officials, at which meeting a high school level pilot program in surveying was offered.
Each State surveying society is asked to send the NSPS model letter to its state CTE office and each Chapter is asked to send a letter to the local workforce development board in each county within your chapter. Model state and chapter letters, and a link to identify the key contact at every state CTE office and local workforce board, can be found on this page from the NSPS website, click here.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently provided updated charts on the FY2017 Appropriations process in the U.S. House and Senate. The current status includes budget authority and outlays resulting from prior year appropriations; it reflects the latest stage of action, starting with legislation filed in the committee's parent chamber. Barring one exception, the current status does not include the budgetary effects of Division C of Public Law 114-223, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017, which expires on December 9.
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An analysis by the recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Air Force’s first Global Positioning System (GPS) quarterly report provided important information on some of the programs’ efforts and details about its full and long-term cost, schedule, performance, testing, and risk. The satellite-based GPS provides positioning, navigation, and timing data to users worldwide. GPS is an essential U.S. national security asset and a key component of economic growth, national infrastructure, and transportation safety. For nearly 9 years, the Air Force has been in the process of modernizing all three GPS segments to enhance performance and security. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 contained a provision that the Air Force provide quarterly reports to GAO on the next generation GPS acquisition programs.
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The Congressional Research Services (CRS) has issued a report which found that the principal law governing pollution of the nation’s surface waters (the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or Clean Water Act) delegates certain responsibilities to the states, and embodies a philosophy of federal-state partnership in which the federal government sets the agenda and standards for pollution abatement, while states carry out day-to-day activities of implementation and enforcement. Financial assistance for constructing municipal sewage treatment plants and certain other types of water quality improvements projects is authorized under Title VI. It authorizes grants to capitalize State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds, or loan programs. States contribute matching funds, and under the revolving loan fund concept, monies used for wastewater treatment construction are repaid to states, to be available for future construction in other communities. Surveying and mapping plays a significant role in compliance with the law. NSPS, through COFPAES, was successful in 2014 in adding a Brooks Act “qualifications based selection” (QBS) requirement to state and local projects financed by Federal grants and loans under the Federal law.
Inside GNSS
Experts working on standards for airborne equipment using GPS, Galileo, and a satellite-based augmentation system appear to have found a way to deal with an unusual problem — too many satellites.
With a number of SBAS systems and four global satellite navigation constellations either already operating or under development, eventually "many, many satellites” will be in view.
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Point of Beginning
The technology ecosystem aiding land surveyors and GIS professionals of today is rapidly advancing, incorporating more features and functions that are enabling faster deliverables in sleeker and smaller form factors. However, technology solutions need to be developed with the understanding of what users need in order to accomplish their tasks, especially when it comes to gathering accurate location information for a wide range of surveying, engineering and GIS field applications.
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The American Surveyor
For thousands of years, sea level has served as an essential, visible physical standard that affects natural and human processes. But it's not a constant. Rapid, obvious changes in coastal water levels are caused by tides and storms. Millennial-scale, climate-induced changes are less noticeable on human timescales, but they represent a moving baseline for the local and rapid changes.
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Sensors & Systems
Scientists produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely from satellite observations. The maps, based on data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite and generated with a new data-processing technique, agree well with inventories of known carbon dioxide emissions.
No satellite before OCO-2 was capable of measuring carbon dioxide in fine-enough detail to allow researchers to create maps of human emissions from satellite data alone.
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