U.S. National Grid Training - Delta University & USGS

Available for Registration Only!

How to read USNG, and USNG Navigation Course

Wednesdsay August 10, 2011

9:00 a.m. to 5:00p.m.

Tarrant County Government Emergency Management and

Tarrant County College Present

Delta State University and

U.S. Geological Survey

Developed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee and endorsed by FEMA and the National Search and Rescue Committee, the U.S. National Grid (USNG) is an easy to use system for identifying and determining locations with a USNG gridded map and/or a USNG enabled GPS system. Based on techniques used by the military for more than 50 years, it offers an inexpensive way for all components of the emergency response community to have a common geospatial frame of reference while serving as an “always ready” backup for high-tech systems. Learn more: FGDC, NSARC.

Speaker: Talbot Brooks

Through a national effort sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, USNG spokesperson Talbot Brooks, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies at Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi, will be in