National Data Sets

The NSTC will facilitate dissemination of BLM specific data for corporate use by the Bureau for land resource management.

The BLM E-GIS initiative, sponsored by WO-200, Renewable Resources and Planning, was an effort to study and design an enterprise spatial architecture for the Bureau.  Since the National Information Resource Management Center (NIRMC) acquired the hardware infrastructure and administrative support for a production system, the NSTC was asked to facilitate the next logical steps, and begin building common corporate datasets to be shared by all.  This implementation effort will transition the BLM to a sophisticated architecture, including supporting activities to spatially enable the BLM workforce, and to establish a Bureau-wide commonly-shared database.  To this end, a plan was completed, which identified program datasets and priorities. 

The overall goal of the NSTC facilitation of Bureau E-GIS implementation is to provide GIS applications and data access to every employee that requires spatial technology to do their job, while increasing efficiency and reducing costs. This work is being completed in conjunction with Program data owners, the NIRMC and the Division of Program Management.  In FY06, the following spatial data migration to a central database was successfully completed:  WO approved BLM Administrative Jurisdictions; Aerial Photography Index and application; National Planning boundaries; Wild Horse and Burro Herd Areas; Grazing Allotments; Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC’s); and USGS Hydrological Units (HUCs).