News Bulletins
NGS news bulletins highlight the release of new products, updates to existing services, progress reports for major projects, information about upcoming NGS-sponsored events and upcoming job opportunities at NGS. To receive updates or learn more visit our Subscription Services page
2024 Bulletins
- 12/18/2024 - Models for New Geopotential Datum Updated
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- 11/20/2024 - Now available: NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NGS 92 |
- 10/29/2024 - Production Release: Online Tool to Start a Survey Mark Description File |
- 10/10/2024 - NGS Educational Videos Hit the 500K Mark |
- 10/9/2024 - NOAA Published FRN Announcing the Timeline and Process for the Modernized National Spatial Reference System |
- 8/8/2024 - NGS Geospatial Product Updates |
- 6/10/2024 - NCN Residual Time Series Comparison Tool (NCN PloTS) is now live |
- 5/30/2024 - NGS releases early look at transformation parameters defining the modernized NSRS |
- 5/9/2024 - Four NGS web products move from Beta to Production |
- 5/7/2024 - Additional NGS Educational Resources Available in Spanish and French |
- 4/24/2024 - Beta Release: NOAA CORS Network (NCN) Station Pages |
- 4/8/2024 - On-demand Educational Opportunities from NGS |
- 2/28/2024 - NGS Product Enhancements, Updates and Alignment with ITRF2020 |
- 1/26/2024 - BETA Release: OPUS-S upgraded to support multi-GNSS |
2023 Bulletins
- 12/13/2023 - Data Submissions for Initial Modernized NSRS Rollout Ends 2/29/2024 |
- 11/2/2023 - NGS Data Explorer - Decommissioned and Replaced by NGS Map |
- 10/3/2023 - Beta Release: CORS Time-Series Tool |
- 9/22/2023 - 2023 Geospatial Modeling Grant Awards Announced |
- 7/18/2023 - NGS Releases Alpha Version of State Plane 2022 |
- 5/15/2023 - Notice: New DSWorld Upload Web Form Now Available |
- 5/10/2023 - Now Accepting RTK OPUS Projects Supports Short-Occupation Survey |
- 5/5/2023 - Updated Agenda: May 31 NGS Day at 2023 FIG Working Week |
- 3/20/2023 - NOTICE: Celebrate Surveyors Week: March 20–26, 2023 |
- 2/23/2023 - Notice: Geospatial Modeling Grant Funding Opportunity Now Available! |
- 2/8/2023 - NGS Announces Geospatial Modeling Grant |
2022 Bulletins
- 12/21/2022 - Save the Date: May 31: NGS Day at 2023 FIG Working Week |
- 10/19/2022 - NGS Releases NGS Map to Production |
- 10/12/2022 - NOTICE: NGS, Louisiana Update Regional Heights |
- 9/21/2022 - NOTICE: NOAA, Census Mark 2020 Center of Population |
- 8/19/2022 - Go Bench Mark Hunting to Celebrate International Geocaching Day |
- 8/2/2022 - NGS Co-sponsors New Surveying & Geomatics Manual |
- 8/1/2022 - Learn More About NGS' NCAT Tool |
- 3/23/2022 - NOTICE: NCAT new version release |
- 3/21/2022 - NOTICE: Celebrate Surveyors Week: March 20–26, 2022 |
- 2/22/2022 - NOTICE: Celebrate Engineers Week, February 20–26, 2022 |
- 2/07/2022 - NEW: Earn Webinar Certificates of Attendance on Your Own Schedule |
- 1/20/2022 - 2021 Year in Review and Feedback in the Future |
2021 Bulletins
- 11/22/2021 - In Case You Missed It! Geography Week Recap |
- 11/09/2021 – NGS Releases BETA NGS Map |
- 10/21/2021 – NOTICE: HTDP new version release |
- 10/06/2021 – NGS Expands Email Subscription Options |
- 09/22/2021 – Notice: NGS Adds Software to GitHub |
- 09/16/2021 – NGS Releases BETA OPUS Projects 5.0 — Now accepting RTK data! |
- 08/26/2021 – Attend NOAA’s Virtual Career Fair |
- 08/20/2021 – Celebrate International Geocaching Day on August 21, 2021 |
- 07/29/2021 – NOTICE: NGS Terminating CORS FTP Service on August 16, 2021 |
- 07/07/2021 – OPUS Adds New Functionality |
- 03/22/2021 – NOTICE: Celebrate Surveyors Week: March 21–27, 2021 |
- 03/01/2021 – Deadline for State Plane Coordinate System of 2022 |
- 02/22/2021 – NOTICE: Celebrate Engineers Week, February 21–27, 2021 |
- 01/29/2021 – NOTICE: NGS Releases Annual Experimental Geoid Models & Gravity Interpolation Tools |
- 01/05/2021 – Recap: 2020 NGS Publications |
2020 Bulletins
- 11/16/2020 – NOTICE: Celebrate Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day |
- 10/26/2020 – NOTICE: NGS Releases Beta Leveling Projects Web Tool |
- 10/05/2020 – Notice: Final Determination on Retiring the U.S. Survey Foot |
- 09/15/2020 – NOTICE: New GNSS Lesson Available Online |
- 09/01/2020 – New Study: NGS Aeronautical Survey Program Contributes Billions to U.S. Economy |
- 07/29/2020 – Notice: Upcoming changes to the NSRS, and Age-limited data considerations for the modernized NSRS |
- 07/14/2020 – Notice: Delay in Publishing Final Determination for Retiring U.S. Survey Foot |
- 06/01/2020 – NOTICE: NGS Releases Technical Report and Web Map for GEOID18 |
- 05/21/2020 – NOTICE: NGS Releases New Mark Recovery Tool and BETA Mark Information Page |
- 05/18/2020 – NOTICE: NGS releases new data visualization and data submission tools |
- 05/15/2020 – Notice: Coordinate update to select CORS and NGS deprecation of IGS08 support |
- 02/04/2020 – Now Available: Improved Vertical Datum Transformations |
2019 Bulletins
- 12/17/2019 – Publications Library Update and Recent NGS Publications |
- 12/09/2019 – Urgent: Critical Change to GEOID18 Grid Files |
- 11/26/2019 – Reminder: Public Comment on Retiring the U.S. Survey Foot |
- 10/21/2019 – NGS Invites Public Comment on Retiring the U.S. Survey Foot After 2022 |
- 10/10/2019 – NOTICE: State Plane Coordinate System for 2022 (SPCS2022) Policy and Procedures Update |
- 10/01/2019 – NGS Releases Annual Experimental Geoid Models |
