U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORBUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Geographic Coordinate Data Base BLM is building an automated
Land Information System(LIS) for improved public land
management. BLM will use the LIS in making resource management
decisions such as processing applications for mineral leases,
designating utility corridors, issuing land use permits,
locating wildlife habitat improvements, preparing timber sales,
evaluating alternatives in environmental assessments and land
use plans, and generating reports and maps. BLM is automating
fundamental types of information for its Land Information
System: The Geographic Coordinate Data Base from the National
Public Land Survey System; land and mineral records; natural
resource data files; and base maps. Thus, the Land Information
System will for the first time tie BLM's records and natural
resource data to legal descriptions of specific land parcels
through a unified automated system. Fundamental to this approach
is the use of a common reference system for the dif