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Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 8 - SURVEYING AND MAPPING
CHAPTER 5 - California Orthometric Heights
Section 8891.

CA Pub Res Code § 8891 (2016) What's This?

8891. As used in this chapter:

(a) NGS means National Geodetic Survey or its successor.

(b) CSRC means California Spatial Reference Center or its successor.

(c) NAVD88 means North American Vertical Datum of 1988.

(d) GPS means Global Positioning System and includes other, similar space-based systems.

(e) FGDC means the Federal Geographic Data Committee or its successor.

(f) FGCS means the Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee or its successor.

(g) CSRN means California Spatial Reference Network as defined by Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 8850), Geodetic Datums and the California Spatial Reference Network.

(h) COH88 means California Orthometric Heights of 1988.

(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 158, Sec. 29.16. Effective January 1, 2006.)

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