Recap of 2018 Industry Days and Status of Alpha Products
Dive into a comprehensive recap of the 2018 Industry Days and the current status of Alpha products presented by Dru Smith, NSRS Modernization Manager at NOAA's National Geodetic Survey. Explore insights shared during the 2019 Geospatial Summit regarding Industry Days, Alpha products, and the schedule leading up to 2022. Gain an understanding of the transformative changes and advancements in geospatial technology shaping the future landscape.
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Recap of 2018 Industry Days and Status of Alpha Products Dru Smith NSRS Modernization Manager NOAA s National Geodetic Survey May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 1
Outline Industry Days Alpha products and the schedule to 2022 May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 2
Industry Days May 7-8, 2018 in Silver Spring Intent: Invite partners from industry to hear how the NSRS modernization will impact them Outcomes: General support for NGS, its mission Cautious optimism about preparedness for NSRS Modernization An overall request to share any/all products and services early Even before release as Beta products May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 3
What does 2022 look like? May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 4
NOAA TM NOS NGS 78 Most of the following slides are pulled from a NOAA Technical Memorandum that is in the works. Status Report on the products and services of the upcoming Modernized National Spatial Reference System May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 5
Definitional Constants May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 6
Definitional Constants Status Name Description Source Values (2019 Alpha versions in BLUE) a= 6.378137 106 m GM= 3.986005 1014 m3/s2 J2= 1.08263 10-3 = 7.292115 10-5 rad/s X : +0.024 0.002 mas/year Y : -0.694 0.005 mas/year Z : -0.063 0.004 mas/year h Converts XYZ Provides Normal Gravity Field Provides time-dependency to both of the above values Converts XYZ(ITRF2014,t) GRS 80 will be used. Time dependency will be definitionally set to zero. Reference Ellipsoid Done XYZ(NATRF2022,t) Alpha: ITRF2014 Plate Motion Model Euler Pole Parameters for the North American Plate Euler Pole Parameters for the Pacific Plate Euler Pole Parameters for the Caribbean Plate Euler Pole Parameters for the Mariana Plate Incomplete Part 1 of 4 of EPP2022 Final: IAG Working Group X : -0.409 0.003 mas/year Y : +1.047 0.004 mas/year Z : -2.169 0.004 mas/year Converts XYZ(ITRF2014,t) XYZ(PATRF2022,t) Alpha: ITRF2014 Plate Motion Model Incomplete Part 2 of 4 of EPP2022 Final: IAG Working Group X : +0.049 0.201 mas/year Y : -1.088 0.417 mas/year Z : +0.664 0.146 mas/year Converts XYZ(ITRF2014,t) XYZ(CATRF2022,t) Alpha: ITRF2008 Plate Motion Model Incomplete Part 3 of 4 of EPP2022 Final: IAG Working Group Converts XYZ(ITRF2014,t) XYZ(MATRF2022,t) Alpha: computations at NGS from the 2017 survey (paper pending) Final: TBD Withheld from public release until publication of paper Incomplete Part 4 of 4 of EPP2022 62636856.0 107 m2/s2 (exact) The gravity potential of the geoid at 2020.00 By agreement with the Geodetic Survey of Canada, 16 April 2012. W0 Done May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 7
How to read the next few slides Nothing is done yet But if an alpha version of product/service will be available by 2022, it will have a blue note explaining what the alpha product will look like May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 8
Definitional Models May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 9
Definitional Models Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) Model of Earth s time dependent external gravitational potential Name GM2022 Description 2019: Alpha version will use PGM17 with time dependencies from GRACE Model of time dependent 3-D crustal motion 2019: Alpha version will consist of a series of drift/jump grids based on The CORS Network. Likely not available until end of 2019 2019: Alpha version will be xGEOID2019 with linear velocities derived from GRACE 2019: Alpha version will be xDEFLEC2019 with linear velocities derived from GRACE 2019: Alpha version (xGRAV2019) of will be put out as an experimental product with xGEOID2019 and xDEFLEC2019. No time dependencies. 2019: Alpha version (xDEM2019) of will be put out as an experimental product with xGEOID2019 and xDEFLEC2019. No time dependencies. 2019: Alpha version, relying upon xGRAV2019 will be put into alpha versions of OPUS IFVM2022 Model of time dependent ellipsoid/geoid separation GEOID2022 Model of time dependent surface deflections of the vertical DOV2022 Model of time dependent surface gravity GRAV2022 Model of time dependent crust of the Earth DEM2022 The International Great Lakes Datum of 2020 IGLD2020 May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 10
Products and Services to release by 2022 May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 11
Products/Services by 2022 (1 of 5) Name NSRS Database Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) 2019: Alpha version exists with basic information and data models 2019: Alpha version using only piecewise linear ITRF2014 coordinate functions will be available by Summit (May) 2019: Alpha version of should be available by the Summit (May) 2019: Alpha version should be available by the Summit (May) The NOAA CORS Network (NCN) : Modernized OPUS: For Everything (for customers) OPUS: Mark Recovery (for customers) May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 12
Products/Services by 2022 (2 of 5) Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) 2019: Alpha version is effectively OPUS-S running on ITRF2014 coordinates in the NOAA CORS Network (NCN), though with alpha versions of EPP2022 and GEOID2022 available, an addendum to OPUS-S output could easily add alpha versions of NATRF2022, PATRF2022, MATRF2022, CATRF2022 and NAPGD2022 coordinates. 2019: Alpha version allowing for RTK/vector input should be available by the Summit (May). Will rely upon ADJUST for now. Name OPUS: GNSS single-occupation processing (for customers) OPUS: GNSS (including RTK/N ; vectors) project processing (for customers) OPUS: Leveling project processing (for customers) 2019: Alpha version not available May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 13
Products/Services by 2022 (3 of 5) Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) OPUS: RTN Alignment Service (for customers) Comprehensive Coordinate Conversion and Transformation Engine (in two tools: NCAT and VDatum) The NGS Toolkit: Modernized Name 2019: No alpha version will be available 2019: Alpha version will be current versions of NCAT and VDatum. The current NCAT functionality is shown in blue in the list to the left. 2019: No alpha version will be available May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 14
Products/Services by 2022 (4 of 5) Name Manual: GNSS Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) 2019: The manual may be complete before the Summit, but will definitely be complete before the end of the calendar year. 2019: Alpha version will be the leveling chapters from BP3 2019: No alpha version expected Manual: Leveling OPUS: GNSS GPS Month-based processing (internal) OPUS: Leveling project and/or multi-project processing (internal) OPUS: Reference-Epoch processing for lat/lon/eht/oht (internal) 2019: No alpha version expected 2019: No alpha version expected May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 15
Products/Services by 2022 (5 of 5) Name NADCON: Connecting NAD 83(**11) epoch 2010.00 to **TRF2022 epoch 2020.00 (internal) VERTCON: Connecting NAVD 88 and other vertical datums to NAPGD2022 epoch 2020.00 (internal) SPCS2022 Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) 2019: CORS data will be used to compute a simple alpha version 2019: GPSBM data (from GEOID18 etc.) used to generate an alpha version 2019: No alpha version will be available May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 16
Products and Services to release after 2022 May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 17
Products/Services after 2022 (1/2) Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) 2019: No alpha version expected Name OPUS: Absolute Gravity single-occupation processing (for customers) OPUS: Vertical Gravity Gradient single-occupation processing (for customers) OPUS: Classical project processing (for customers) 2019: No alpha version expected 2019: No alpha version expected May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 18
Products/Services after 2022 (2/2) Name OPUS: Relative gravity project processing (for customers) OPUS: Special Support for Calibration Baselines (for customers) OPUS: Special Support for Airport Surveys (for customers) OPUS: Special Support for new CORS installation (for customers) Status (2019 Alpha status in BLUE) 2019: No alpha version expected 2019: No alpha version expected 2019: No alpha version expected 2019: No alpha version expected May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 19
Minimum Projects - 2019 GRAV-D airborne campaign Geometric Transformation Consistency (AKA NADCON 5, connected to *TRF2022 ) Name the datum(s) Geoid monitoring service (AKA (D)GM2022 , (D)GEOID2022 and (D)DEFLEC2022 ) Mathematical Relationship between IGSxx and the datum(s) (AKA EPP2022 ) Dynamic Heights from GPS GPS campaign for transformations Common gravity dataset between USA & Canada Geopotential Transformation Consistency (AKA VERTCON 3, connected to NAPGD2022 + DynHt) Define Ellipsoid Define W0 IFVM2022 GRAV2022 The CORS Network operating in ITRF2014 (S)GM2022 (S)GEOID2022 (S)DEFLEC2022 DEM2022 OPUS (GPS stand alone solutions) feeding the NSRS DB OPUS ( GPS month processing) internal NGS use only (Final Discrete Coordinates) OPUS ( ReferenceEpoch processing for , , h, H) internal NGS use only (Reference Epoch Coordinates) On schedule In danger of falling behind schedule Behind schedule May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 20
Preferred Projects - 2019 On schedule In danger of falling behind schedule Behind schedule OPUS-Projects (GPS) loading the IDB Legislation Template NSRS database OPUS-Projects (GPS Projects) developed and loading the NSRS DB Manual of leveling in a GPS/geoid-based vertical datum GSVS 17 State Plane Coordinates Replace NGS 58 and 59 OPUS-Projects (Leveling Projects) developed and loading the NSRS DB The CORS Network Modernized OPUS for Everything (Mark Reporting, Single GPS Occupations, Projects of all types) Mark Recovery Page working on any platform NCAT/Vdatum fully ingest all coordinate transformation/conversion tools currently in the NGS toolkit Toolkit Improvements 1: GRAV2022, IFVM2022, CALIBRATE, Translev, WinDESC, LOCUS, LOOP Organize all historic GPS data files Re-process all historic GPS and load into NSRS database RTN Alignment Service May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 21
Stretch Projects - 2019 On schedule In danger of falling behind schedule Behind schedule Re-process all historic leveling data, adjust to GPS and load in NSRS database OPUS-Projects (Gravity Projects) developed and loading the NSRS DB (planned for post 2022) OPUS-Projects (DoV Projects) developed and loading the NSRS DB (planned for post 2022) OPUS-Projects (RTN/RTK Projects) developed and loading the NSRS DB OPUS-Projects (Traverse Projects) developed and loading the NSRS DB (planned for post 2022) Develop an all-GNSS orbit/positioning software suite Toolkit Improvements 2: Inverse/Forward, exo-NGS code repository, old NGS code repository OPUS (Leveling Project/Multi-Project processing) internal NGS use only (Final Discrete Coordinates) OPUS (Absolute Gravity stand alone solutions) feeding the NSRS DB (planned for post 2022) OPUS (Vertical Gravity Gradient stand alone solutions) feeding the NSRS DB (planned for post 2022) OPUS (Classical Project/Multi-Project processing) internal NGS use only (Final Discrete Coordinates) (post 2022) OPUS ( ReferenceEpoch processing for g) internal NGS use only (R.E. Coordinates) (planned for post 2022) OPUS ( ReferenceEpoch processing for DoVs) internal NGS use only (R.E. Coordinates) (planned for post 2022) OPUS (Special Support for CBLs) (planned for post 2022) OPUS (Special Support for Airport Surveys) (planned for post 2022) OPUS (Special Support for New CORS Installations) (planned for post 2022) May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 22
Questions? May 6, 2019 2019 Geospatial Summit 23