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Wired<\/em> reports<\/a> that Trump administration cuts to NOAA are threatening an already-delayed<\/a> update to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS)<\/a>, which was supposed to replace NAD 83 and NAVD 88 in 2022<\/a> with corrected spatial measurements more in line with satellite data. (See this 2020 post<\/a> on the difference in elevation data.) \u201cAccording to former staff, NGS was sitting at 174 employees at the start of the year, with staff looking to fill an additional 15 positions to help with rolling out the new datums and educating federal agencies and local governments on their use. Since January 20, the agency has lost nearly a quarter of its staff and has had to freeze planned hiring.\u201d Wired<\/em> situates this in the context of the U.S. falling further behind in geodesy research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wired reports that Trump administration cuts to NOAA are threatening an already-delayed update to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), which was supposed to replace NAD 83 and NAVD 88 in 2022 with corrected spatial… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[593,231,159,1735,448],"class_list":["post-1840823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-surveying","tag-datum","tag-geodesy","tag-noaa","tag-nsrs","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788912,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/06\/the-impact-of-noaas-height-modernization-program\/","url_meta":{"origin":1840823,"position":0},"title":"The Impact of NOAA’s Height Modernization Program","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 June 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Last month the New York Times covered a subject that you\u2019d expect to be too technical for the general reader: NOAA\u2019s efforts to recalibrate elevation data as part of its update to the National Spatial Reference System, expected in 2022 or 2023. 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Of particular concern is the loss of access to the Special Sensor Microwave Imager\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Weather and Climate"","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1844800,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/07\/noaa-will-continue-to-receive-vital-satellite-data-after-all\/","url_meta":{"origin":1840823,"position":2},"title":"NOAA Will Continue to Receive Vital Satellite Data After All","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 July 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"NOAA\u2019s hurricane forecasts will continue to be able to use data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). 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