The article discusses some of the new positions of theory and methods of digital land management (DLM). The goals and objectives of digitization of the land building industry in the country’s land management system (LMS) are highlighted. Significant reduction in financial costs and relatively rapid restoration of all the functions of land management are possible only through its automation, information and complete digitization. The work carried out in the field of DLM is aimed at improving and implementing an intelligent system of planning, land-building and optimization of both land of all categories and agricultural resources, use and protection of land in agricultural production at different levels of generalization. These are field, economy, municipality, subject of the Russian Federation, country, foreign territories, operating on the basis of digital, remote, geo-information technologies and computer-generated methods. Smart land management assumes the basic spatial basis of the implementation of digital transformation of the following priorities: smart land use, smart field, smart farm, smart storage, smart greenhouse, smart garden, etc. Implementation of this concept is carried out in the form of the realization and introduction of the technological geo-information platform of DLM as the main mechanism for the implementation of agricultural policy of the state, rational use and protection of land resources and is key in relation to the sectors of the economy, which have a spatial link. The issues discussed in the article are directly related to the creation of essentially a new content of land management which corresponds to the zeitgeist. And the non-formation basis is the data derived from traditional ways of obtaining information, new technologies among them: unmanned aerial vehicles, laser scanning high-resolution satellite imagery, development of computer systems, network solutions based on cloud storage information, big data “Big Data” and block-chain “Blockchain”, etc. This modernization and rearmament of the industry should be accompanied by adjustments about the new provisions of the theory and methods of land management, its goals and objectives, the emergence of new concepts and terms and their interpretations.