For the Southeastern States and Puerto Rico

National Height Modernization regional meeting teleconference for the southeastern states and Puerto Rico

Raleigh, NC January 27, 2010 1:00 – 4:00 pm (EST)

Agenda  NGS o News o Grant opportunities  State reports o Status o Activities  Joint projects

Attendees: Affiliation (state, territory, or Name National Geodetic Survey) Georgia ~ No rep in attendance ~ Kentucky ~ No rep in attendance ~ Childers, Vicki Lokken, Scott National Geodetic Survey Roman, Dan Shields, Renee Thompson, Gary North Carolina Nave, Jerry Puerto Rico ~ No rep in attendance ~ Lapine, Lew South Carolina Wellslager, Matt Tennessee Waters, Jim Virginia ~ No rep in attendance ~ West Virginia ~ No rep in attendance ~ NGS News  NGS reports o NHMP status: Renee Shields o GRAV-D: Vicki Childers o Geoid: Dan Roman

 The NGS 10-Year Plan: Questions and comments from teleconference attendees o Concern that NGS may not support a passive network or provide access through the current database o Concern that NGS does not plan to consult the user community, except for the folks at ACSM, about its plan to move to a new horizontal datum and a new vertical datum o Concern with NAD83 legislation in states if a new horizontal datum is adopted by NGS o Recommend that NGS study the need for a new horizontal datum and a new vertical datum

Status report from each state or territory Prior to the meeting, the Height Mod representatives from each state/territory in the southeast region were asked to prepare a brief report on the Height Mod activities in their respective state/territory.

 South Carolina: Lew Lapine and Matt Wellslager o Charleston County has 12 tide stations that NGS was not able to survey for the VDatum project. Although these stations did not contribute to VDatum, they can validate it. o SC has a dozen CORS that have been in the NGS queue for acceptance into the National CORS Network for 1 ½ years. When will NGS accept these CORS? o The RTN data sharing agreement between NC and SC is working well for our RTN users along the NC/SC border.

 Tennessee: Jim Waters o TN has RTN data sharing agreements with AL, KY, and MO. We are negotiating an agreement with NC. o TN seems to get their CORS into the National CORS Network fairly quickly. o TN Base Mapping Program (TNBMP): Multi layered digital basemap (GIS and imagery) that will support the business functions of State and local government  North Carolina: Gary Thompson, Scott Lokken, and Jerry Nave o Height Mod Workshops at NCA&T State University: - Jerry Nave of NCA&T stated that this year’s workshop will be held in August before school starts, rather than in September as had been done in previous years. - He had made a CD of previous workshops and sent it to Ross Mackay of NGS, but it never arrived. So, he will resend it. o DFIRM maintenance plan/schedule o CORS and RTN - NC has ~7 CORS that have been in queue at NGS for about a year. - Upgrading CORS from GPS to GNSS. - Using Twitter to inform RTN users of network problems. o Using HM to do subsidence studies. o NC will be collecting statewide imagery in 2010. o Building a geodetic control database with a link to each corresponding NGS datasheet, but will also store/distribute control data that will not be submitted to NGS.

 GA, KY, PR, VA, and WV: No reps in attendance

Joint state projects General discussion of the difficulty in finding projects or activities that can be done jointly.

Actions items 1. Long delays on acceptance into the National CORS Network Renee will check on the CORS queue for NC and SC.

2. Grants Renee will send a Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) sample to Jim Waters so he can do searches on the Grants.gov website.

3. Ht Mod Workshops Jerry will send a CD to Ross with the presentations from previous Height Mod workshops.