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Each year NCEES sponsors the "Best Land Surveying Practices" special award at the regional competition sites (40-plus nationwide) of the Future Cities Competition. In the December 2018 edition of the NCEES publication Licensure Exchange there is an article in which it is noted that Surveyors are needed for the 2019 regional sites. NSPS encourages its members to contact NCEES marketing and outreach associate Christian Cernauskas (ccernauskas@ncees.org) to learn more about participating in this event.
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A recent surveying competition outside Washington, D.C., between China and the United States not only deepened knowledge of international surveying practices but also laid a foundation for new cross-cultural professional relationships.
The competition, which brought together teams of 18 surveyors Nov. 12-16 from each country to Northern Virginia, was organized by the Beijing Municipal Federation of Trade Unions in China, the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) in the U.S., and the America and China International Foundation.
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Welcome to the Flood Zone is a nationally distributed resource for those interested in flood zone issues, land surveying, real estate, history, and educational opportunities. This newsletter has been proudly featured by the Association of State Floodplain Managers, the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and the Maine and New Hampshire Floodplain Management Programs. Please feel free to share with your friends and colleagues!
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NSPS
Nicholas ("Miki") Schmidt, Division Chief, Science and Geospatial Services, NOAA Office for Coastal Management will join host Curt Sumner, NSPS Lobbyist JB Byrd, and NSPS Government Affairs Consultant John Palatiello to introduce listeners to the activities undertaken by the NOAA Office of Coastal Management.
Please note that there will be no "live" presentation of the NSPS Radio Hour on December 24 or 31. We hope everyone has a wonderful celebration of the Christmas and New Year holidays!
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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An extension of temporary appropriations for nine Cabinet departments and dozens of smaller agencies through Dec. 21 was cleared by Congress last week. The legislation would extend current funding levels for two weeks and buy time to reach final agreement on outstanding spending issues, including President Donald Trump's $5 billion southern border wall funding request. It also extends a number of expiring authorizations including Violence Against Women Act programs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the National Flood Insurance Program for the duration of the stopgap measure. Negotiations over the seven remaining fiscal 2019 spending bills — Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Financial Services, Homeland Security, Interior-Environment, State-Foreign Operations and Transportation-HUD — were mostly on hold last week as lawmakers mourned the death of former President George H.W. Bush.
NGS/NOAA
Each month a report of OPUS shared solutions is sent to anyone who successfully shared a new solution in that month. All of the information in the report is available at: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/view.jsp.
You can search for shared solutions by "share date," "mark location" and "mark name." The data is available for download in HTML, XML, json and shapefile formats.
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A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has recently obligated, on average, over $17 million a year to help state and local agencies eradicate millions of illegal marijuana plants. Agencies in states where marijuana is legal also received funds because illegal growing can occur on national forests or trespassed farm lands. Officials from participating local agencies in California reported that aircraft support is critical to their marijuana eradication efforts because it allows them to conduct aerial surveillance to detect possible marijuana grow sites, transport personnel in and out of grow sites in remote areas, and remove large quantities of marijuana plants from grow sites. During the eradication season, Forest Service conducts aerial surveillance in helicopters funded by the state police using DCE/SP funds, and assists with eradication operations when available. As another example, officials in Georgia reported expending DCE/SP funds to conduct aerial surveillance to detect possible marijuana grow sites on national forests. Legislation pending in Congress, H.R. 7018, the Protecting Lands Against Narcotics Trafficking (PLANT) Act, introduced by Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), provides resources to help local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies eradicate illegal marijuana growing on public lands, including "contracting to use commercially available aerial imagery, remote sensing, and geospatial data acquisition services." According to the U.S. Forest Service, roughly 90% of all illegal marijuana growing is on sites located on National Forest System land in California. Rep. LaMalfa worked closely with NSPS lobbyists, John M. Palatiello & Associates, Inc., on the geospatial data collection language in the bill.
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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 the CST program can be incorporated in your QA/QC program?
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The latest Get Kids Into Survey! Forestry and Civil posters are now available through NSPS! Posters can be ordered at www.getkidsintosurvey.com.
Teachers and Counselors only pay shipping! Contact Trish Milburn if you have any questions.
Feedstuffs
Seeing both the forests and the trees is about to get easier, thanks to a new open-access tool developed by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration and the U.N. Food & Agriculture Organization — with support from the Google Earth Engine Team and the U.S. government's SilvaCarbon Program — that allows anyone to track land use and landscape changes anywhere.
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Inside GNSS
In addition to regularly expected updates for GPS systems and U.S. government activities, last week's meeting of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board included discussions with industry representatives and officials from Europe.
Jean-Yves Courtois, CEO of Orolia, and Jeremy Warriner, Director of Government Systems at Microsemi, discussed the industry's readiness to help secure GNSS receivers with anti-jam and anti-spoof technology, and protect signals with interference detection systems.
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Where did you first learn about GIS?
Was it in a course at a university or a community college? Were you an undergraduate or graduate student? Was it at a conference, or online, or maybe during a conversation with a relative or friend? Or, did you first learn about GIS in primary or secondary school?
For most people, the answer to that last question is "No."
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GPS World
The U.S. Air Force's first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite is now encapsulated for its planned Dec. 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
GPS III Space Vehicle 01 underwent pre-launch processing, fueling and encapsulation at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida. During encapsulation, GPS III SV01 was sealed in its launch fairing — an aerodynamic, nose-cone shell that protects the satellite during launch.
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Sensors & Systems
GSSI, a manufacturer of ground-penetrating radar equipment, is continuing its partnership with the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. GSSI archaeologists Dan Welch and Peter Leach brought new GPR equipment to remotely sense what lies beneath Jamestown.
Jamestown — known for being the first permanent English settlement in the New World — will be commemorating in 2019 the 400th anniversary of the first representative government and arrival of the first Africans.
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