NGS Activities in Montana Pam Fromhertz Rocky Mountain

NGS Activities in Montana Pam Fromhertz Rocky Mountain Regional Advisor 240 -988 -6363 Pamela. Fromhertz@noaa. gov geodesy. noaa. gov

Topics • • Coordinators State Plane Coordinate System 2022 (SPCS 2022) GPS on BM Other

NGS Advisors Other NGS offices

Geodetic Coordinators

Anticipated** State Coordinators and Working Group Members Montana *Joshua Phillips, MARLS *Tyson Olinger, MDT Erin Fashoway, State Library ? MAGIP Wally Gladstone, Tribal ? • Coordinator to be listed on the NGS website • ** waiting consensus across the state

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SPCS 2022 • • Federal Register Notice (1 st - due date Aug 31) Draft SPCS 2022 Policy DRAFT SPCS 2022 Procedures NOAA Special Publication NOS NGS 13

Federal Register Notice • Provide comments • Assist NGS in developing a new State Plane Coordinate System for the future. • Comments may address any aspect of the draft SPCS 2022 policy and procedure

Federal Register Notice Specifically, the Director seeks comments regarding: 1. Usage of current SPCS in your organization, how your organization expects to use SPCS 2022, and whether it will facilitate migration to the 2022 TRFs. 2. Whether the proposed default SPCS 2022 definitions will impose a hardship or be beneficial to your organization. 3. Whethere is insufficient or excessive flexibility in the characteristics of SPCS 2022 that can be established through user input 4. Whether the deadlines are acceptable and realistic for making requests or proposing characteristics for SPCS 2022. 5. Whether including “special purpose” zones as part of SPCS 2022 would be beneficial, problematic, or irrelevant to your organization.

Federal Register Notice Special Zones • Major urbanized areas • Large American Indian reservations • Federal applications covering large geographic areas. NGS seeks to determine whether it is appropriate to include special purpose zones as part of SPCS 2022, or support special purpose zones in some other manner, if at all.

Federal Register Notice • Provide comments by Aug 31, 2018 on Policy and Procedures • Requests for zones designed by NGS or proposals for zones designed by contributing partners must be received by NGS no later than December 31, 2019 • For NGS-approved proposed designs by contributing partners, final defining parameters must be received by NGS no later than December 31, 2020 • Confirmation of final design characteristics and computations will be provided by NGS to stakeholders and contributing partners no later than December 31, 2021

Crowdsourcing- GPS on Bench Marks • Help with final hybrid Geoid Model (data collected by August 31, 2018) • Help with the transformation tools (over next 2 years) • Find Bench Marks • Use NGS priority BM/tracking map, Rocky Mountain Region • Use NGS Data Explorer • Use DS-World • Provide a recovery note, coordinates, photos • Use DS-World • Collect GPS data • 4 hours of data required with survey grade equipment • Share through OPUS

Rocky Mountain Region GPS on Bench Mark

NGS Prioritized Map

New Reference Frames Planned for 2022 • Replace NAD 83 with a geocentric reference frame • GNSS based • Replace NAVD 88 with a gravity based geoid

OPUS Share Solution - April https: //geodesy. noaa. gov/sitemsgs/OPUS/shared/overview-2018 -May.

Rocky Mountain Region Webinars GPS on BM • May 21 2: 00 Basics, why, how, when – Recorded https: //attendee. gotowebinar. com/recording/4100208993309956616 • June 7 2: 00 Mark Recovery (DS-World) – Recorded https: //attendee. gotowebinar. com/recording/8767732610551898883 • June 14 2: 00 Collecting GPS data and Sharing through OPUS (Survey Grade, min. of 4 hrs)

Thank you Joshua Phillips Tyson Ollinger Erin Fashoway Wally Galdstone Pam Fromhertz