Potential Insights on Digital Cadastre for Effective Land Management

Abstract

Over the past few years, the developments of geographical information science (GIS) and computer‐based infrastructures have dramatically changed the way cadastral systems are operated and used. Such developments led to several digitalization efforts that have developed and improved existing cadastres worldwide. While large cadastres have been primarily and successfully developed, they can still be considered ineffective for several reasons. Some cadastres in developing countries, particularly Africa, are not fully automated and do not provide efficient land management capabilities. While in other countries, although fully automated, they suffer from long time delays in processing the parcel‐based information from the initial surveys, incomplete synchronization, poor security, and adequate service provision to the public. Where lack of records and failing synchronizations for the core cadastre information systems are observed and their underlying reasons identified it is possible to remedy the situation using temporal GIS models designed for cadastral data management.