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Core Science Systems
News
Browse or search the repository below for Core Science Center news, announcements, events, project updates, and more.
Editing over the Holidays!
The holidays are always a busy and sometimes stressful time of year: food to cook, houses to clean, trips to plan, gifts to buy, family to coordinate, the list goes on. So we completely understand that editing data for The National Map Corps might not be high on your list of priorities these days. --*Sigh*
Favorite Headstones and Mapping
The National Map Corps encourages and leverages volunteer citizen scientists to update structure data to The National Map. To reward, recognize and motivate these participants, the program awards “virtual” badges for increasing levels of edits and submission.
USGS Topo Base Map Refreshed and Other Updates
The “USGS Topo Base Map” service named “USGS Topo” has been refreshed with new data and design changes. In addition, several of the “Data Availability”, or “Data Index” services have new cloud hosted URLs.
Celebrating Geologic Map Day 2018
In celebration of Earth Science Week and Geologic Map Day, the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program is highlighting several exciting ongoing and upcoming geoscience-related activities:
FY19 U.S. Geological Survey Broad Agency Announcement for 3D Elevation Program Released
Partnership opportunities for the acquisition of lidar data issued.
USGS EDMAP Program – Call for Proposals
Calling all geoscience faculty conducting research or teaching geologic mapping. The USGS EDMAP Program is accepting funding proposals focusing on geologic mapping to support upper-level undergraduate and graduate students at their colleges or universities.
3D Elevation Program (3DEP) Webinar Set
Registration is now open for the 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) FY19 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Instructional Webinar.
New Elevation Map Service Available From the USGS 3D Elevation Program
The USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) announces the availability of a new dynamic map service.
Searching for Great Geologic Maps
The USGS Announces Final Call for Abstracts: Best Student Geological Map Competition at GSA Indianapolis.
North American National Mapping Meeting, May 9-10, 2018
North American National Mapping Meeting -
- May, 9-10, 2018, Reston, VA
2018 Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion of the Year Award
Calling for nominations to honor outstanding accomplishments to the spatial data infrastructure mission of the Department of Interior
The 3D Elevation Program Distributing Lidar Data in LAZ Format
In support of ongoing efforts to provide efficient, cloud ready, open data formats for the use of lidar data, the USGS National Geospatial Program and its associated 3D Elevation Program is transitioning all of its lidar data distribution files to LAZ format by September 30, 2018.