William Henning

William Henning, Prof.LS., is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor with over 46 years of active experience in all phases of the land surveying profession. He has been actively involved with education and outreach to the geospatial community for 20 years, presenting over 120 talks and workshops on surveying and GNSS technology. Mr. Henning has authored articles for professional journals and trade magazines on GNSS positioning as well as authoring an extensive guideline document on single base real-time GNSS positioning and editing a real-time network guideline document while working at NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS).

He has trained various federal and local personnel in using GNSS equipment and correct positioning techniques. Bill has been the project lead for new height modernization geodetic networks in county-wide projects in the U.S., where he planned, helped construct, processed, adjusted and managed new geodetic control systems. He has over 19 years experience working with various GNSS manufacturers’ real- time positioning systems.

Mr. Henning is Past President of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS) and is an ACSM/AAGS Fellow. He has been presented with the NOAA Administrator’s Award for outstanding accomplishment in producing real time GNSS guidelines. He is currently retired from the NGS, where as a Geodesist he helped develop guidelines and support methodology for real time GNSS positioning with state, national and international organizations.

Bill is currently working part time in private industry as the geospatial manager for George William Stephens, Jr. & Associates, Inc. and as a faculty member for GeoLearn where he is recording videos for the use of surveyors, engineers and other geospatial professionals. Mr. Henning was awarded the Maryland Society of Surveyors “Surveyor of the Year” for 2013-14.