How can kinematic laser scanning support urban planning and infrastructure management? Urbanization and the development of megacities is posing critical challenges for sustainable but efficient land use globally. Power lines,...

Charalabos Ioannidis is a professor at the Laboratory of Photogrammetry, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, where he teaches photogrammetry and cadastre. His...

An approach for valuing rural customary farmlands has been assessed in a case study in Ghana with a view to supporting land consolidation for food security. Customary lands account for 80% of...

Thierry Ngoga, Head of Support to State Capability at AGRA, considers the valuable lessons offered by Rwanda’s recent land governance reforms. In Africa, land reform can be a highly complex...

European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities (NMCAs) have launched an online directory to help users find official geospatial, land registration and cadastral information and maps from Europe. It is available via the website...

In the context of the European Data Strategy, EuroGeographics has highlighted that high-value, authoritative geospatial datadata is a fundamental building block for digital transformation. High-value, authoritative geospatial data from official...

Krieshen Ramkhelawan works as an advisor to the board of MI-GLIS, the cadastre in Suriname. He has been working in the field of land administration for the past ten years,...

In 2017, Suriname’s Ministry of Land Management decided to digitize and automate the process of citizen requests for land and the management of land, which had mainly been paper-based for...

Today's geospatial technology means that land administration systems can increasingly be implemented for the benefit of all. This issue of GIM International has a special focus on land management and the role...

The use of a UAS to acquire geodata for mapping purposes has evolved beyond infancy and is now rapidly maturing. How will it evolve in the foreseeable future? The use...