Conventionally, land administration—incorporating cadastres and land registration—uses
ground-based survey methods. This approach can be traced over millennia. The application …

There is a growing demand for cheap and fast cadastral mapping methods to face the
challenge of 70% global unregistered land rights. As traditional on-site field surveying is …

Cadastral boundaries are often demarcated by objects that are visible in remote sensing
imagery. Indirect surveying relies on the delineation of visible parcel boundaries from such …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered an innovative tool for land administration.
However, despite the prospects and market opportunities in the domain, there is a gap …

Conventional land tenure recording approaches to create a sustainable land administration
system (LAS) have been found to be of limited value in developing countries. To respond to …

Land administration constitutes the socio-technical systems that govern land tenure, use,
value and development within a jurisdiction. The land parcel is the fundamental unit of …

Abstract The 'fit-for-purpose'(FFP) approach was developed to respond to the challenges
that the creation of a sustainable land administration system (LAS) faces. FFP has proved its …

The well-recognized and extensive task of mapping unrecorded land rights across sub-
Saharan Africa demands innovative solutions. In response, the consortia of “its4land”, a …

The initial focus of implementing the Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA)
methodology was to address the significant, global security of tenure divide. We argue that …

Millions of formal and informal land rights are still undocumented worldwide and there is a
need for scalable techniques to facilitate that documentation. In this context, sketch mapping …