Friday, June 21, 2019

RDML Gallaudet Visists NGS Testing and Training Center

Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, received briefings on a variety of equipment system testing and training functions of the NGS Testing and Training Center in Woodford, Virginia. RDML Gallaudet observed demonstrations of various testing capabilities including: the NGS Global Naviation Satellite System Antenna Calibration Program; the sites's Continuously Operating Reference Station; the Electronic Distance Measuring Instrument Calibration Program; and NGS remote sensing capabilities. RDML Gallaudet also observed historic geodetic survey equipment and a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ground LIDAR demonstration.

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