U.S. National Geodetic Survey

The U.S. National Geodetic Survey is one of the U.S. government under its organization of geodesy, which is responsible for land surveying within the United States. She is since 1970 part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) and is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The National Geodetic Survey supervised (s ) and various agendas of research, among others on the area of ​​the reference systems, time services, the geoid and satellite geodesy. In the basic forms of the division between federal and state member agendas are similarities with the German system ( land survey offices and BKG ), while other States have surveying the task of the central administration.

History

The Authority was established in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson as the Survey of the Coast with the task of the coasts to measure and create charts. In 1878 it was renamed the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC & GS). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) was established in 1970, the department has as the National Ocean Service ( NOS), which the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was incorporated as National Geodetic Survey.