Geographical Information Systems

While GIS technology has expanded and become more entrenched in the state and field offices, the National Science and Technology Center continues a long tradition of proving GIS services throughout the Bureau and in serving other Federal agencies.  Over the past 10 years, GIS Specialists at NSTC have developed a variety of spatial data sets.  Many of these spatial data layers are composites of individual BLM state layers developed to serve BLM state office projects and national data sets. The layers cover topics such as, origins of wildfires, BLM administrative jurisdictions, and land status. Some of the datasets cover only a specific project, while others are nationwide and regional.

This collection of data can be of great value for students, researchers, policy makers or BLM field offices. In an effort to share this data both with our collaborators and the general public, much of it is available via our NSTC website, our ftp site (ftp://ftp.blm.gov), and some will be soon be available through our national EGIS server as national datasets.  NSTC geospatial Specialists recently hosted a viewer site of all BLM's aerial photo archives for the BLM western states to aide in the selection and retrieval of BLM historic aerial photography.  The next step is to host a remote sensing imagery index on the national EGIS server.

NSTC GIS Specialists are proficient in ESRI’s family of products and other geospatial related software, and willing to help with your GIS needs.  We can provide GIS services to assist in building databases on a national, state, regional, and project-area level, produce GIS-related maps, graphics, and tables, and provide GIS analysis.