Pacific Services Center

Height Modernization

Height Modernization is a federal program to improve the utility and availability of the national survey network. Led by NOAA's National Geodetic Survey, height modernization has primarily been implemented in congressionally designated states that receive funding through the NOAA Geodesy program. NOAA forms partnerships with and within a funded state and provides technical leadership to modernize the fundamental infrastructure for all surveying and mapping activities, whether federal, state, or local in scope.

For more information on the NOAA National Geodetic Survey's Height Modernization visit www.ngs.noaa.gov/heightmod/.

Training and Outreach in Geodetic Control

The NOAA Pacific Services Center's (PSC) Pacific region geodetic advisor presented several basic workshops in partnership with the Hawai`i Association of Land Surveyors (HALS) on the Global Positioning System (GPS), GPS control, and datum transformations. PSC's geodetic advisor gave the keynote address at the HALS annual conference on the National Geodetic Survey's (NGS) role in the Pacific. He also presented workshops at the Western Pacific Regional GPS, GIS, Cadastral Survey Conference and Technical Programs in Palau, the first on the role of NGS in the Pacific and the second on GPS processing and coordinate transformations.