In 2001, LSU’s College of Engineering created a Center for GeoInformatics (C4G) to build new research and services in Geodesy and GeoInformatics. In 2002, C4G's founding executive director Dr. Roy K. Dokka established the Louisiana Spatial Reference Center (LSRC) through a partnership with NOAA's National Geodetic Survey with a focus on creating a state-of-the-art positional infrastructure for the state of Louisiana and to provide technical leadership, training and access to Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) data.