Land Information System (LIS) - Similar to a GIS, an LIS is designed specifically to create, visualize, analyze, report and publish land-based data such as parcel information, zoning, land use, ownership and general property information.
Land Information Systems (LIS) Specialized GIS systems most commonly found among municipal agencies geared toward legal, administrative and economic spatial analysis. Also known as Land Records Information System (LRIS).
Land Information System (LIS) - The sum of all the elements that systematically make information about land available to users including: the data, products, services, the operating procedures, equipment, software, and people.
Land information system(s); Landsat Information System; Library and information science; Lightening Imaging Sensor
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land information system
A geographic information system for cadastral and land-use mapping, typically used by local governments. Referenced by: Land information system; Public Land Survey System.
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LIS: Land Information System. Manual or computer-based information system used to store, retrieve, display, and plot spatial and textural data relating primarily to land features and characteristics.
In everyday terms we are interested in specifications, design artifacts, and database schemas for land information systems. Two forces motivate our work.
An integrated land information system containing legal (e.g., property ownership or cadastre), physical (e.g., topography, man-made features), and cultural (e.g., land use, demographics) information in a common and accurate reference framework.
Often, the application of GISs is termed Land Information Systems (LISs). Dueker and Kjerne (1989) described LISs and GISs as containing data primarily describing land records. Vonderohe et al.
Spatial databases along with the P-mapping are used to maintain a public records GIS or community land information systems (e.g. [Ventura, Niemann, Sutphin, & Chenoweth (2002)]). These are just a few of the uses of GIS in the community.
Online requests for these data can be placed via the USGS Global Land Information System (GLIS) interactive query system. The GLIS system contains metadata and online samples of Earth science data.
LIS is the acronym for land information system. LIS and GIS are virtually synonymous, although it could be maintained that an LIS is but one component of a GIS.
Data that is or could be used by 2 or more organizations. In the context of a provincial land information system the terms corporate data and corporate land-related data are often interchanged
Corporate Land Information ...
resource inventory and management
urban planning (Urban Information Systems)
land records for taxation and ownership control (Land Information Systems)
facilities management (AM/FM)
marketing and retail planning
vehicle routing and scheduling ...
Land Information System of Reykjavik
Using GIS for Planning and Management of Irrigation Systems
Sri Lanka Department of Agrarian Development
City Planners Use GIS to Improve Agency Cooperation [PDF]
Washington, D.C.
Once in digital format, they can be viewed and printed at various scales, and are extremely valuable in the development of land information systems and land use planning issues such as zoning, transportation, and agriculture.
 See also: Information, GIS, Geographic, Location, Mapping
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