Modules
NILS consists of four modules: Survey Management , Measurement Management , Parcel Management , and GeoCommunicator . Our goal is to get as many of the requirements for each module put into COTS products that will be available to everyone. Any requirements not met by COTS products will go into BLM custom software.
Each module is discussed briefly below. For more information on each module click on the brochure link below. Refer to the NILS brochure for more general information on NILS. For in-depth information on each module including planning documents, meetings, and more, go to the individual modules be clicking on the links above.
SM Brochure | Survey Management (SM)is a set of applications that provides surveyors with the ability to manage survey data collected in the field. It allows for exporting data to a variety of survey equipment and for importing data back into the Survey Management database. GIS, raster, and field data are all integrated within Survey Management for data validation and decision making while in the field. Survey Management will provide field surveyors with tools to research survey data that can be taken into the field. Additional tools will assist in the calculation of field data and observations. A subset of coordinate geometry and layout calculation tools will also be available. Next implementation is scheduled for March 2003. As part of the NILS solution, the Land Survey Information System (LSIS) Web site at: www.geocommunicator.gov/GeoComm/lsis_home/home/index.shtm will provide a means for distributing land survey boundary information from Survey Management and Measurement Management applications to the public. Refer to the LSIS Brochure for more information. |
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MM Brochure | Measurement Management (MM) is a desktop GIS application that allows surveyors to analyze and adjust surveyed data from the field. Measurement Management allows for the combination of measurement data from a variety of sources and reliabilities to create a seamless measurement network. Measurement Management contains a suite of mathematical formulas that allow the transformation of raw survey data into the measurement network. This is referred to as the legal description fabric. The legal description fabric can then be used to create the parcel fabric, which can be used by land managers for decision making. Measurement Management contains tools to input and import data, construct measured features, edit measurement data, adjust and analyze the measurement network, perform least square adjustments, perform coordinate geometry and layout, and create a parcel fabric. Next implementation is scheduled for March 2003. |
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| Parcel Management (PM) will be a desktop GIS application that provides tools for land managers to create and manage parcel features and their legal area descriptions. The parcel fabric can be vertically integrated with survey features captured and managed using the Survey and Measurement Management applications. A set of tools for standardizing and facilitating land management workflow processes will be provided with the parcel management suite of tools.
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| GeoCommunicator (http://www.geocommunicator.gov) is an Internet Website for cadastral survey and land and mineral parcel data from NILS and the BLM's Land and Mineral Use Authorization systems (Legacy Rehost 2000-LR2000). GeoCommunicator provides for the distribution of the Public Land Survey System data (township, range, section, aliquot), other survey-based data, the federal surface management agency boundaries, and parcel mapping of the BLM's land and mineral records and mining claims. GeoCommunicator's portal capabilities for searching and access geospatial data were moved to the E-government website, Geodata.gov. |
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