Parcel Management provides tools for land managers to create and manage parcel features and their legal area descriptions. The parcel fabric is vertically integrated with survey features captured and managed using the Survey Management and Measurement Management applications. A set of tools for standardizing and facilitating land management workflow processes has been provided with the parcel management suite of tools. The NILS geodatabase model is based upon Environmental Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) ArcGIS Parcel Data Model, which was developed by a consortium of cadastral/parcel subject matter experts. The model is based upon and meets the requirements of the Federal Geographic Data Committee's Cadastral Data Content Standard. The implementation of the model includes conversion of the data from the NAD27 to the NAD83 datum as well as the development of a seamless national dataset. The survey and parcel data will serve as the foundation for a national multipurpose Cadastre. The inital release of Parcel Management was in September of 2003. Future releases of Parcel Management will include new functionalities.
Planning Documents (Business Case)
Link to Parcel Data Models Select "Federal Lands Data Model Poster"Link to ESRI's ArcGIS Land Parcel data model and Federal Lands Case Study.
NILS Application Vision (pdf) Mar 2002Flowcharts of the GCDB/NILS work processes - current and proposed; when and how they will be implemented.