The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the US Department of the Interior that manages public land in a multiple use and sustained yield manner. The BLM publishes a growing number of datasets related to its mission and programs to the public using Voyager and ESRI Geoportal software products. This presentation will cover the various types and scales of BLM data (e.g., state level data, landscape level data, national level data), where these data are published and discoverable, and how the Voyager and ESRI Geoportal publication nodes are tied together for a seamless user experience. We will also cover how these technologies are integrated with other interagency platforms and metadata catalogs. Lastly, we will discuss the road ahead for maintaining a data presence on the web with increasingly changing technology and the opportunities that these changes in technology provide.

1. Publishing Bureau of Land Management Data on the Web
Jason Frels – Resource Programs Data Coordinator
Stacey Crowe – Spatial Data Coordinator
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management

2. The BLM Organization
• Over 10,000 employees
(not including contractors)
• 600-700 concurrent GIS
Desktop users daily
• Approximately 6,000 total
GIS users
• 3,5000 BLM AGOL Users
• Local, District, State, and
National Offices
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter

3. The BLM Enterprise
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
• All data comes from
the field
• Field Data is managed
locally
• State data is managed
in State Enterprise
Geodatabases by the
BLM State offices
• National data is
managed in National
Enterprise
Geodatabases by the
National Office

4. National BLM Enterprise System
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
• NOC Hosted States – Citrix Farm Production
• 28 Citrix Servers
• With 14 vCPU (2.3ghz) with 50 GB RAM and 1vGPU
• Two versions of ArcGIS Desktop and over 30 tools
• ArcGIS Desktop 10.5.1 and 10.4.1
• Central Data File Storage (Over 100 TB)
• GIS Data / Workspace / Imagery
• National / NOC Hosted States / Other States
• National Geospatial Data Sets
• Reference National and State
• Central Enterprise Geospatial Databases
• Edit / Publication / Reference / Test

5. National BLM Enterprise System
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
National ArcGIS Server
• Public National Anonymous - https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services
• Internal (DOI only)
• National Mobile Editor
State ArcGIS Server
• Public Anonymous - Example CO: https://gis.blm.gov/coarcgis/rest/services
• Internal (DOI Only)
• State Mobile Editor
• BLM EGIS and E-Planning Portals
• BLM EGIS AGOL (ArcGIS Online for Organizations)
• Landscape Approach Data Portal (geoportal)
• Public Spatial Web Applications (web app builders, StoryMaps, Geocortex)

6. BLM Data Types
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
National Data
• Usually Corporate
• Consistent from State to State
• Sometimes Mandated by
Policy
• A-16
Field & State Level Data
• Usually “Corporate” data
• Oil & Gas Lease Areas
• Habitat observations
• Inconsistent from State to State
Landscape Level Data
• Regional or Interstate
• Can be “Project” in Nature
• Rapid Ecoregional Assessments
• Often Interagency
• Fire & Invasives
• IRFMS

7. What Type of National Data?
• 17 National Datasets
• Each dataset has:
• National Data Standard
• Implementation Guideline
• Robust National QA/QC
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
Example Datasets:
• Areas of Critical Environmental Concern
• Administrative Units
• Fire Perimeters
• Grazing Allotments and Pastures
• Ground Transportation Linear Features
• Land Use Planning Areas
• NLCS (Conservation Areas, Scenic Trails,
Wild and Scenic Rivers, Wilderness
Areas)
• Recreation Sites
• Visual Resources Inventory
• Vegetation Treatments
• Wild Horse and Burro
Herd/Management Areas

8. How Data Moves at the BLM
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
External
Publish to Public
Internal
BLM Use
Standards
Integrity
Quality Control
Aggregation
NOC EGIS
WY
CO
UT
NV
ID
OR
…

9. How Data Gets Published at the BLM
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
Landscape & National Level Data
(Downloads and GIS Services)
Field & State Level Data
Landscape & National
Data.DOI.gov
Data.gov

10. How LADP metadata gets to Navigator
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
SQL View

11. How LADP metadata gets to Data.DOI.gov
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
Data.Doi.Gov
XMLs in WAFs

12. How LADP metadata is supposed to get to
Data.DOI.gov
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter
Data.Doi.Gov
XMLs in WAFs
Geoportal
Geoportal
API
generates
DCAT JSON
Python script
generates
custom JSON
feeds
• BLM National
• BLM REA

13. Where does the BLM Metadata link to ?
Web Data Resources
• ArcGIS Server Rest endpoints – Examples
• BLM National and State ArcGIS Server
• https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services
• https://gis.blm.gov/azarcgis/rest/services
• https://gis.blm.gov/esarcgis/rest/services
• https://gis.blm.gov/utarcgis/rest/services
• Web accessible data
• Download files
• Zipped files Geodatabases, zipped Shapefiles, Layer Packages
• Navigator
• Zipped files Geodatabases, zipped Shapefiles, Layer Packages

14. What’s Next – BLM GIS Road Ahead
• Moving from ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Pro for publication
• ArcGIS Pro only supports publishing through a Portal
• Hosted Feature Services (Datastore) or Federated ArcGIS Service.
• Moving from fat direct connections to enterprise databases to Features Services for editing
• ArcGIS Pro
• Web Apps
• User Managed Versus ArcGIS Managed in Portal
• ArcGIS Managed - Project and Field Data
• User Managed – Corporate Data
• Changing National Compilation
• Replica – User Managed
• Portal to Portal Collaboration – ArcGIS Managed
• Major Constraints
• Remote offices with Small Bandwidth
• Lack of BLM Standardize workflows

15. Links & Demos!
• Navigator
• Navigator.blm.gov
• Landscape Approach Data Portal
• Landscape.blm.gov
• BLM AGOL (ArcGIS Online for Organization
• https://blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html

16. Questions?
BureauofLandManagement
NationalOperationsCenter