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Jul 12, 2018 · A total of 106,724 kilometers of leveling was involved, constituting 246 closed circuits and 25 circuits at sea level. The datum was not mean sea level, the geoid, or any other equipotential surface. Therefore, it was renamed in 1973, the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
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Originally known as Sea Level Datum of 1929, NGVD 29 was determined and published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and used to measure the elevation of a point above and depression below mean sea level (MSL).
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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 The North American Datum of 1927 (NAD 27) and the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) are considered superseded as the national standards.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...
Nov 4, 2020 · Despite the huge leap in accuracy from NGVD 29 to NAVD 88, the latter datum, like its predecessors, was still based on terrestrial survey marks that could be damaged or knocked out of position. According to the NGS, the 1988 datum was off by about 1 m coast to coast.
