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NOAA and NIST Collaborate to Develop Life-Saving Positioning Technologies

Friday August 2, 2019

NGS personnel collaborated on a special-purpose survey to support the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Public Safety Communications Research Division. Using both Global Navigation Satellite System and laser surveying technologies, the survey team defined coordinates for several positional reference marks, located both indoors and outside on the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado campus, that are connected to the National Spatial Reference System. NIST will use this geospatial information to develop positioning technologies for reliable indoor mapping, tracking, and navigation capabilities for first responders.

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