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The current vertical datum for the contiguous United States and Alaska is the North American Vertical Datum of 1988. Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Pacific Island territories have separately defined datums. (See Table 1) TABLE 1: Current Vertical Datums for United States and Territories. Datum Name.
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Scientists frequently use geospatial data obtained from multiple sources, and datums commonly must be standardized before datasets that are referenced to different or unknown datums can be used. The North American Datum of 1927 (NAD 27) and the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) are considered superseded as the national standards. T...
The NAD 83 and the NAVD 88 are the recommended datums to use in USGS publication series information products. The use of these datums establishes a common reference for all horizontal and vertical data in the NSRS for the conterminous United States and Alaska. The NAD 83 and the NAVD 88 datums also provide the necessary linkages for Global Position...
Include datum documentation in a USGS publication series information product according to the following criteria. 1. The product refers to an altitude or an elevation (orthometric height). 1.1. State the vertical datum name and year in that document. 1.2. Example: "Vertical coordinate information is referenced to the North American Vertical Datum o...
Place the documentation in a USGS publication series information product according to the following criteria. 1. The product has a traditional book-report layout with front matter. 1.1. State the datum information (as described in "Datum Documentation" above) immediately following the conversion factors. If a vertical datum reference is needed with...
If the datum used for existing data is not apparent: 1. Refer to the required metadata that accompanies the dataset. 2. Query the dataset by using your geospatial software package. 3. Refer to the header file for the dataset. 4. Visually compare the dataset in question to a dataset of known datum. 5. Inspect information on the map or illustration s...
Refer to the following frequently asked questions (FAQs) about using and documenting horizontal and vertical datums in USGS publication series information products. Additional FAQs about datums are available at NOAA National Adjustment of 2011 (NA2011) Project Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)web page. 1. Is the use of NAD 83 and NAVD 88 required?N...
VERTCON 3.0 release 20190601 adds support for vertical datums on islands and Alaska, and the VERTCON 3.0 build software prepares NGS for the upcoming NAPGD2022 release. How do I use VERTCON 3.0? VERTCON 3.0 release 20190601 is functionally implemented in NGS’s Coordinate Conversion and Transformation Tool (NCAT).
Oct 29, 2023 · These datums are used to measure the height (altitude) and depth (depression) above and below mean sea level. Commonly used vertical datums in North America are the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). A (vertical) geodetic datum often ties in tidal datums.
Geodetic vertical datums are generally used to express land elevations. However, water level datums are a slightly different vertical datum, and are used as a reference level to which bathymetric soundings are referenced for nautical charts. Conversion between these two can be done through geodetic surveys at tide gauges.
