National Resources
Links
BLM National Home Page
The Bureau of Land Management administers 264 million acres of public lands, located primarily in the 12 Western States, containing natural, historical, cultural, recreational, and economic resources.
CORS Data
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/cors-data.html
Surveyors, GIS/LIS professionals, engineers, scientists, and others can apply CORS data to position points at which GPS data have been collected. The CORS system enables positioning accuracies that approach a few centimeters relative to the National Spatial Reference System, both horizontally and vertically.
U.S. Geological Survey
The U.S. Geological Survey provides the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth.
Federal Geographic Data Committee
Coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), which encompasses policies, standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic data.
Land Surveying and Geomatics: U.S. Federal
http://surveying.mentabolism.org/usfed.htm
Discussion of U.S. Government resources for professional land surveyors.
FGCS Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee
Exercises government leadership in coordinating the planning and execution of geodetic surveys, in developing standards and specifications, and the exchange of survey data and technical information.
Florida Geomatics
http://www.floridageomatics.com/
Outlines programs and national, state and local resource links for land surveyors.
www.resurvey.org
Privately supported site established as a reference for land surveyors working in the public land survey system.
Geoscience Australia
The national agency for geoscience research and geospatial information.