Name: Panel: Geospatial Industry Readiness: Bring the Modernized NSRS to Your Tools and Workflows
Start: 2026-10-13T10:30:00-0500
End: 2026-10-13T12:00:00-0500

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Panel: Geospatial Industry Readiness: Bring the Modernized NSRS to Your Tools and Workflows

Tuesday October 13, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT

Juneau, 5th Floor

As the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) nears the full implementation of the modernized National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), the transition from legacy datums like NAD 83 and NAVD 88 to time-dependent, geopotential-based frames, like NATRF2022 and NAPGD2022, presents a significant shift for the GIS community. While the theoretical foundations are established, the practical success of this transition depends on the readiness of the hardware, software and workflows used by the community.

This panel session brings together leading geospatial hardware and software vendors alongside representatives from the open-source community to discuss the technical roadmap for NSRS integration. Panelists will move beyond theory to address how they are updating commercial-off-the-shelf platforms, field collection hardware, and open-source libraries to support State Plane Coordinate System of 2022, time-dependent coordinates, coordinate transformations and the elimination of the U.S. Survey Foot.

Keywords: datum, NSRS, NGS, data, government, agency

Panelists
Galen Scott, NGS Constituent Manager, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD - USA
Michael Dennis, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD - USA

Speakers

Galen Scott

NGS Constituent Manager, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey

Galen Scott has spent over 20 years as a Federal civil servant with the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), the nation’s oldest science agency. He currently serves as the NGS Constituent Manager, responsible for engaging the broad array of NGS stakeholders to help them prepare to transition... Read More →

Michael Dennis, PhD, PLS, PE

Geodesist, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey

Michael L. Dennis, PhD, RLS, PE is a geodesist at NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) where he manages the State Plane Coordinate System of 2022 Project. He is also involved in evaluation of data processing and survey network adjustment procedures, development of standards and... Read More →

Tuesday October 13, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Juneau, 5th Floor

The GIS Profession

GIS-Pro 2026

Galen Scott

Michael Dennis, PhD, PLS, PE

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