I got this email.
contact Denis Riordan LA NGS advisor if you are interested.
Denis.Riordan@noaa.gov
The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is preparing a project that in a few weeks will re-observe a subset of the 330 survey control marks updated in the NGS 2006 Height Modernization project for South Louisiana (epoch 2006.81). The field portion of this project will be carried out by NGS contracted personnel and observations are due to start soon after Labor Day 2010. Along with this subset of marks, NGS is affording an opportunity to any interested parties to update additional marks and have them published in the NGS Integrated Data Base (IDB). The interested parties must collect their GPS data during the same time period as the NGS contractors, and gather the other related mark information (description, etc.). After providing this information to NGS, we will then perform the processing and adjustment portion of the control mark publishing process (Blue Booking). The NGS will be holding meetings in five cities across south Louisiana to let people know what we are doing and why, and what is required for someone to participate in this project. Meetings are planned for New Orleans, Houma, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Lake Charles.
Meeting Specifics
Date: Wednesday August 25, 2010
Time: 8:30 – 11:30 AM
Location: Jefferson Parish Council Chambers, 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd., Jefferson, LA 70123
Meeting room is the Council Chambers, 2nd floor, located in the Yenni Building.
Date: Wednesday August 25, 2010
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: TPCG Public Works Yard, 1860 Grand Caillou Road, Houma, LA 70363
Meeting room in the Drainage Department break room.
Date: Thursday August 26, 2010
Time: 8:30 – 11:30 AM
Location: Louisiana D.O.T.D Headquarters, 1201 Capitol Access, Baton Rouge, LA 70804
Meeting room is the DOTD Auditorium in the rear of building, parking on back side of building.
Date: Thursday August 26, 2010
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: USGS Wetlands Center, South Building (NOAA), 646 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA 70506
Meeting Room in front part of building with the parking at the back of the facility.
Date: Friday August 27, 2010
Time: 8:30 – 11:30 AM
Location: Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Room, 1015 Pithon St., Lake Charles, LA 70602
Meeting Room on 1st floor and parking is across the street.
Sounds like a great opportunity to get height mod values on stations convenient to an individual's area of practice at very low cost.
I have been wanting to set a commemorative mark for a quite sometime here at the new Courthouse.
Maybe this will be an opportunity or maybe not.
I can probably squeeze the funds out of the local LSPS chapter for materials etc.
It would be sort of an ancillary mark since there is a LSU CORS only 6 blocks away on the old Courthouse.
But if there were ever a big storm blow through here again, it would be of use.
I don't know the wind rating for the CORS. 🙂
It maybe some good PR and good will that always doesn't hurt.
During the 2006 GPS campaign after Katrina, they performed (1) 18-hour continual sessions at each of the 330 marks.
I wonder what the criteria will be on this go-around
Robert,
It'll be about the same - three days' worth. If you set it by New Orleans City Hall, it should be named "BM Mandle" after Sterling. Back in 1979, during my first symposium on subsidence, Sterling once stood up and asked me, "Why can't we just set a 300-foot deep piling in front of City Hall and put a BM on it and forget about subsidence?"
🙂
It would be a Robert A. Berlin marker.
Life and Charter member of LSPS.
Speaking of him, I am surveying a tract now that he did a cut-out from in 1948.
He tied his survey to a Louisiana Geodetic Marker #2319. Pretty unique. I think there were a lot of section corners in dispute in the area.
Do you got a lat/long or description of it?
It would be interesting to buzz around for it.
🙂
It is really not important in the big picture.
There is probably a 0.001% chance of it still being there because of Parish/State road projects.
There was a LADH logo mark put there in 1977. PID BH1915.
