Oregon GPS User's Group

Greetings
If you are anywhere near Oregon on June 6, be sure to drop-in to the Oregon GPS User's Group meeting. details below lunch is provided for free:

OREGON GPS USERS GROUP 2014 ANNUAL MEETING
Date: June 6, 2014
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Place: Deschutes County Fairgrounds, Redmond, Oregon
Agenda:
9:00-9:30 Network and coffee - speaker setup
9:30-10:00 Introductions and annual business meeting
10:00 - 10:30 Eric Nielsen - Head PGA Professional at the Bend Golf and County Club and on the Board of Directors of the Oregon PGA. Eric will speak on the transition of laser technology to GPS technology on the cart, in your hand and on your wrist as it relates to the golf industry.
10:30-10:45 Networking Stretch Break
10:45-11:30 Dr. Michel Waller - PhD Anthropology: Mr. Waller will speak on the integration of GPS and GIS on his recent thesis project mapping bonobos movement patterns in the Congo. A demonstration of the power of the two technologies in a unique environment.

11:30-12:00 Jim Elam, PLS, CRWE: Washington County Surveyor - Providing general overview of the Counties use and operation of a CORS station as a partner with ODOT, influence of their GPS on daily work activities and recent incorporation of RTK and ORGN.

12:00-1:00 Lunch: Annual OGUG Tasty catered BBQ.
1:00-1:20 Mark Armstrong, PLS - NGS: NGS Issues, OPUS- Projects update and OPUS published data base discussion. National Surveyors Week update.
1:20- 1:40 Dr. Glen Mattioli, Director of Geodetic Infrastructure, UNAVCO, Boulder, Colorado

Overview of the UNAVCO Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) Project & Future Funding Issues.

The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) is the geodetic component of EarthScope, operated by UNAVCO, and funded by the National Science Foundation. In addition to other geodetic instrumentation, the PBO operates 1100 continuously operating GPS reference stations in the western U.S. including Alaska. The PBO project is now in the last five years of its 15 year lifespan ending in September 2018. Dr. Mattioli will give an overview of the PBO project and discuss funding challenges to maintain the PBO GPS sites beyond September 2018.

1:40-1:45 Ken Bays, PLS Oregon DOT - PBO Sites and the Oregon Real-time GPS Network,

Ken will discuss the importance of the PBO sites to the Oregon Real-time GPS Network and surveyors in Oregon. Time permitting, he will also give an update on the Oregon Coordinate Reference System On-line Tool, and a summary of the ORGN since the March 2013 datum realization change.
1:45- 2:00 Networking Stretch Break
2:00 - 2:45 Mike Berry, PLS - Deschutes County Surveyor - Presenting "Vampire Cemetery" .. OR .. A retracement of a portion of the 1904 Plat of Laidlaw in Deschutes County, OR - an interesting survey experience in and around Tumalo near Bend.
2:45-3:00 Vendor reports
3:00 Adjourn
Important: If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Cael Neathamer, cael@neathamer.com, by close of business on Monday, June 1, so we can have an idea of how much food to order for the BBQ.