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National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on a Multipurpose Cadastre.
Procedures and standards for a multipurpose cadastre.
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Panel on a Multipurpose Cadastre
MacDonald Barr,
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Chairman
John D.McLaughlin,
University of New Brunswick, Canada,
Cochairman
Richard R.Almy,
International Association of Assessing Officers, Chicago
Kurt W.Bauer,
Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Waukesha
Kenneth J.Dueker,
Portland State University
Earl F.Epstein,
University of Maine, Orono
G.Warren Marks,
The Pennsylvania State University
Kenneth Strange,
Turner, Collie & Braden, Inc., Houston, Texas
Liaison Members
John Behrens,
U.S. Bureau of the Census
Charles Finley,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Clif Fry,
U.S. Geological Survey
Armando Mancini,
Defense Mapping Agency
Jerome Smith,
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
James Stem,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Douglas J.
Wilcox, Bureau of Land Management
Gene Wunderlich,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Staff
Hyman Orlin, Executive Secretary
Penelope Gibbs, Project Secretary
Committee on Geodesy
Byron D. Tapley,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Chairman
MacDonald Barr,
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charles C.Counselman III,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adam Dziewonski,
Harvard University
Edward M.Gaposchkin,
Lexington, Massachusetts
John C.Harrison,
University of Colorado
Buford K.Meade,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (retired)
Richard H.Rapp,
The Ohio State University
Fred N.Spiess,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Liaison Members
John D.Bossler,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Frederick J.Doyle,
U.S. Geological Survey
John R.Filson,
U.S. Geological Survey
Bernard Hostrop,
Bureau of Land Management
Armando Mancini,
Defense Mapping Agency
Jesse W.Moore,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Staff
Hyman Orlin, Executive Secretary
Penelope Gibbs, Project Secretary
Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources
Herbert Friedman,
National Research Council,
Cochairman
Robert M.White,
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,
Cochairman
Stanley I.Auerbach,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Elkan R.Blout,
Harvard Medical School
William Browder,
Princeton University
Bernard F.Burke,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Herman Chernoff,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter R.Eckelmann,
Exxon Corporation, New York
Joseph L.Fisher,
Secretary of Human Resources, Office of the Governor, Richmond, Virginia
James C.Fletcher,
University of Pittsburgh
William A.Fowler,
California Institute of Technology
Gerhart Friedlander,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Edward A.Frieman,
Science Applications, Inc., La Jolla, California
Edward D.Goldberg,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Konrad B.Krauskopf,
Stanford University
Charles J.Mankin,
Oklahoma Geological Survey
Walter H.Munk,
University of California, San Diego
Norton Nelson,
New York University Medical Center
Daniel A.Okun,
University of North Carolina
George E.Pake,
Xerox Research Center, Palo Alto, California
David Pimentel,
Cornell University
Charles K.Reed,
National Research Council
Hatten S.Yoder, Jr.,
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Raphael Kasper, Executive Director
Preface
In Need for a Multipurpose Cadastre (Committee on Geodesy, 1980) it is stated, “there is a critical need for a bettcr land-information system in the United States to improve land-conveyance procedures, furnish a basis for equitable taxation, and provide much-needed information for resource management and environmental planning.”
That report discusses existing land-information systems and the multipurpose cadastre as a basis for a dynamic, public process that efficiently collects. maintains. and disseminates land information. It not only identifies the land-resource-related problems faced by public and private organizations but also outlines the nature of a multipurpose cadastre as a means to remedy these problems. However, the questions of how governments, especially local governments, can carry out the recommendations made in that report were not answered.
To address the questions left unanswered by its 1980 report, the Committee on Geodesy of the National Research Council undertook this study on recommended procedures and standards for a multipurpose cadastre. The report was prepared by individuals who have practical knowledge of land-information needs and problems at the local level and who have been active in efforts to satisfy those needs and to solve those problems, including members of university faculties concerned with these matters.
