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NGS Represents U.S. at International Standards Meeting

Friday January 8, 2021

NGS’s chief geodesist represented the U.S. at a working group meeting for the International Standardization Organization (ISO) technical committee on geographic information and geomatics. The working group discussed the replacement of the American Samoa Vertical Datum of 2002 with a local tidal datum and the adoption of GEOID18 for the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The working group also discussed a recent publication that detailed the mission, mandate, and other details of the ISO Geodetic Registry. ISO standards provide an internationally recognized framework for the development of geodetic products and services.

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