National Ocean Service National Geodetic Survey National Ocean Service/National Geodetic Survey Subseries

National Spatial Reference System and provides government-wide leadership in the improvement of geodetic surveying instruments and methodologies. NGS also coordinates operations to ensure the development of an accurate and reliable geodetic network and provides guidelines, specifications and criteria for survey operations by federal, state, and other agencies. Additionally, NGS: engages in research and development to improve our understanding of Earth’s size and shape, as well as its gravity field; processes geodetic data; and makes these data generally available to users via a central data base. NOAA geodetic publications and relevan