Brian Shaw

Bio: Brian Shaw is a Geodesist at NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey. He began his career at NGS in 2002 and is the leader of the NGS GIS team as we as serving as the NGS representative to the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC). He actively supports NOAA's Science On a Sphere (SOS) serving as a docent and the National Ocean Service advisor.

NGS GIS Toolkit

For most of its over 200 year history, NGS has met its mission objectives without GIS...until now. NGS has developed a GIS toolbox that includes tools to create attribute-rich GIS features for GNSS and geodetic leveling networks directly from NGS software output, and a conversion tool that generates standard GIS rasters from NGS geoid model grids. The GIS tools were created using the Python scripting language and are accessed through the Esri ArcToolbox. The new tools provide better access to the NSRS and leverage the power of GIS for display and analysis of geodetic data. By developing such tools, NGS better meets the needs of our growing and diverse customer base of surveyors, GIS practitioners, and other geospatial professionals.

NGS, GIS, leveling, GPS, GNSS, geoid