Modernizing natural resource management in Minnesota
Piliptchak, Alex
Thomson Reuters is currently in the final stages of implementing a modern land administration system in Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR). The use of automation technology is expected to improve the management and administration of over 5 million acres of public lands and mineral interests underlying more than 10 million acres of land, while helping to preserve ecological and historical resources as well as develop mineral, timber and other natural resources for the benefit of Minnesota schools and universities. At Thomson Reuters we embraced the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) from its early days and support this standard in our land administration software. In recent years, especially with the completion of ISO approval process, the standard model found much wider acceptance in the industry. While LADMMs comprehensive representation of land information is beneficial for providing a common starting point in new land information system designs it makes transition from other proprietary data models challenging, especially in the cases when the legacy data is fragmented, incomplete or unreliable. Additional challenges arise when administrative records are not fully and uniquely related to spatial data.
Event: LADM2013: 5th FIG International Land Administration Domain Model Workshop
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