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Technical Tours (cont.)
9:00 am – 12:30 pm
General Land Office Records Tour (Limit: 20 people)
Cost: $30
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) established the
United States’ rectangular system of survey and much of
America’s heritage and development is tied to this survey.
Image access is provided to more than two million Federal
land title records issued between 1820 and 1908. The
vaults of American land survey records are a working archive
using the most modern techniques for preservation and
access to surveyors, land tenure specialists and genealogist.
7:30 am – 4:00 pm
USGS/SPOT Image – Reston, Virginia (Limit: 30)
Tour begins promptly at 9:00 AM.
Cost: $30
USGS – (AM)
Visit the U.S. Geological Survey headquarters in Reston, VA.
The facility houses nearly 1,800 employees who work on
current issues in biology, cartography, geology, hydrology
and other life sciences. Get an insider's view of the map
printing plant, Center for Integration of Natural Disaster
Information, Main Library, and the Earth Science Information
Center.
SPOT – (PM)
SPOT Image Corporation will present the latest information
on the SPOT constellation of satellites, including SPOT 5, to
be launched in April 2002. A major producer of imagebased
products such as global 3D terrain databases, seamless
state and nationwide GIS databases, multi-resolution
data stacks, land cover maps and more, SPOT will demonstrate
the latest commercially available products, from the
basic data source material to what is delivered ultimately to
the end user. Learn how government and commercial data
providers differ, and how they complement each other.
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
National Geodetic Survey/ Hydrographic Division of
the Office of Coast Survey – Silver Spring, MD
(Limit: 20 people)
Cost: $40
AM: The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will illustrate use
of softcopy photogrammetry techniques in NOAA’s
Shoreline Mapping and the Federal Aviation Administration
Airport Survey Programs. Also the U.S. National and
Cooperative CORS (continuously operating reference station)
Program emphasizing user-friendly, web-based utilities for
accessing CORS information and performing pertinent online
computations are discussed. NOAA’s hydrographic surveying
and charting divisions will illustrate their latest develop-
ments in surveying technology, (multibeam sonar and side
scan sonar), and visualization techniques along with demonstrations
on NOAA's Print-on-Demand nautical chart program,
Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC's) and electronic
update service for digital charts.
PM: The afternoon will be spent touring the facilities at the
Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies
(MITAGS) which is a non-profit continuing education center
for professional mariners. The Institute provides training to
civilian and military mariners from around the globe. Of particular
interest will be the full-mission bridge simulator which
includes day and night operations and a motion base and
an eight-ship interactive blind pilotage simulator equipped
with an Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS).
8:00 am – 2:30 pm
King George County
Hammer, Siler, George Associates
Friday, April 26
8:30 am – 2:00 pm
CANCELLED
Smithsonian Institution — Washington, DC
(Limit: 30 people)
Cost: $25
Geospatial Technology at the Smithsonian Institution -
Researchers throughout the Smithsonian make wide use of
GIS, remote sensing, and GPS. These technologies are
applied in fields such as zoology, geophysics, environmental
monitoring, and anthropology. Visitors will get a behind the
scenes look at the Museum of Natural History and the
National Air and Space Museum.