Abstract

NGS Guidelines for Real Time Positioning
Track: Implementing Survey Data in GIS
Author(s): William Henning

Inter-GIS compatibility relies on using a common database datum. As the caretaker of the National Spatial Reference System, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is developing guidelines for new applications of positioning using real time techniques. The goal is to link the burgeoning number of real-time networks (RTN) at a specific level of accuracy aligned to the NSRS. The guidelines may encompass the design, construction, administration and use of these RTN to insure their integrity and to provide users with the best methods of positioning with real time techniques. Additionally, the NGS is planning to implement the streaming of real time data in industry standard Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Service (RTCM) format from selected federally owned or operated Continually Operating Reference Stations (CORS), so that RTN administrators may use the data as a fiducial value adjusted into their networks. This presentation will describe current NGS efforts in these areas.

William Henning
National Geodetic Survey
1315 East West Highway
SSMC-3, N/NGS21
Silver Spring , Maryland 20910
United States
Phone: 301-713-3196
Fax: 301-713-4324
E-mail: william.henning@noaa.gov