The Peoples Department

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• The Peoples Department
• 1862, founded by President Abraham Lincoln
• USDA Represents
• 16 Agencies
• 7 Mission Areas
• 67 USDA Advisory Committees
• Honorable Ed Schafer, 29th Secretary of USDA
• USDA Agency personnel in every county of the U.S.
  Territories
• Approximate annual budget - 95 Billion

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Mission Areas

• Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services
• Farm Service Agency
• Foreign Agricultural Service
• Risk Management Agency
• Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services
• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
• Food and Nutrition Service
• Food Safety
• Food Safety and Inspection Service

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Mission Areas

• Marketing and Regulatory Programs
• Agricultural Marketing Service
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
• Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards
  Administration
• Natural Resources and Environment
• Forest Service
• Natural Resources Conservation Service

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Mission Areas

• Research, Education and Economics
• Research, Education, and Economics
• Agricultural Research Service
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and
  Extension Service
• Economic Research Service
• National Agricultural library
• National Agricultural Statistics Service

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USDA is the Newest Member of National
Space-Based PNT Executive Committee
Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner
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Conservation Planning and Application

• Working with farmers and ranchers to develop
  conservation plans, participate in programs and
  apply conservation practices.

Using the USDA GPS Configuration 1 System GPS
and NDGPS
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Landscape Mapping

• Soil scientists use GPS and digital imagery along
  with traditional information to identify
  locations, map soils, conduct updates, and to
  delineate associations.

Using the USDA GPS Configuration 1 System GPS
and NDGPS
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Inventory and Monitoring

• The National Resources Inventory Program conducts
  annual inventories on the condition and trends of
  the nations resources on non-Federal lands.

Various types of GPS equipment depending on the
application
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High Accuracy GPS

• High Accuracy GPS is used where vertical
  solutions have to be less than 10 centimeters and
  involve a base station and rover units.

GPS data is collected with Dual -Frequency GPS
equipment and the observations are resolved using
OPUS
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Wildland Fire Management

• Wildland fire occurrence is inevitable in all
  North American ecosystems. The Forest Service
  uses GPS technology for protecting people and
  sustaining resources

Various types of GPS equipment depending on the
application
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Forest Management

• The U.S. Forest Service manages public land in
  National Forests and grasslands which encompass
  195 million acres

Various types of GPS equipment depending on the
application
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Precision Agriculture

• USDA supports the use of precision agriculture
  managing production and conservation of natural
  resources by the square foot.

USDA conducts research and works with the Ag
Industry and GPS Industry to further development
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Department of Agriculture Applications
10,000 USDA personnel on the landscape every
day, using GPS to provide program assistance,
service, and technical support to USDA customers
and partners

• Safety-of-Life operations Fire, Snow Survey
• Administration of the Farm Bill
• Conservation Planning and Application
• Natural and Cultural Resource Data Collection,
• Inventorying and Monitoring
• Landscape Characterization Engineering
  Applications
• Soil Mapping

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• GPS and GPS Augmentations are used by thousands
  of USDA personnel everyday to meet Agency
  missions and to provide products and services to
  partners and customers.
• The future of GPS and Augmentations directly
  impact the operations of USDA and ultimately the
  people we serve.

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• USDA supports GPS Modernization and the
  implementation of additional civil signals.
• USDA supports the advancement of GPS
  augmentations, especially protecting and
  enhancing the Nationwide Differential GPS
  (NDGPS).