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GPS in our National Parks
Neil Winn
GIS Specialist
National Park Service
Resource Information Services Division
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Our Mission
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"....to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the
wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such
manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the
enjoyment of future generations.“
1916 NPS Organic Act
417 National
Park Units ● 59 National Parks
● 87 National
Monuments
● 130 Historic
Parks/Sites
● 141 Others
The National Park System
The National Park System
GPS/GNSS in the NPS
Visitor and Resource Protection
Incident Command
Cultural and Natural Resource
Management
Facilities Management
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Fire Island
National Seashore
New York
Visitor and Resource Protection
Search and Rescue
Aviation
Wildland Fire
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Visitor and Resource Protection
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Hurricane Irma Recovery
Fort Pulaski National Memorial - Georgia
Cultural Resource Management
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World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
USS Arizona Memorial - Hawaii
Cultural Resource Management
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Saint Croix Island International Historic Site
Maine
Natural Resource Management
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Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park - California
Natural Resource Science
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Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park - California
Natural Resource Management
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Assateague Island National Seashore - Maryland
Natural Resource Management and
Science
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Cape Cod National Seashore – Massachusetts
Assateague Island National Seashore
- Maryland
Facilities Management Statue of Liberty National Monument – New York
2003 2013
Facilities Management
Everglades National Park - Florida
Colonial National Historic Park - Virginia
Merging Technologies
GNSS Signal
Improvements
Canopy
High latitudes
Autonomous Precision
User-friendly GIS
software
Real-time mapping
Accessible to novice user
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Devil’s Hole, Death Valley NP
Nevada
GPS/GNSS Data Challenges
Precision vs. Accuracy
NAD83
NAVD88
NATRF2022
Data Connectivity
Data Security
Data QA/QC
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Source: NOAA NGS
Emerging Technologies
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Devil’s Tower National Monument - Wyoming