Digital Transformation of Land Consolidation: Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Land Administration
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 240
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geodesy; land consolidation; geoinformatics (GIS)
Interests: geodesy; land consolidation; geoinformatics (GIS); rural development; land abandonment; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land consolidation plays a crucial role in improving agricultural productivity, spatial order, environmental protection, and rural development. In many countries, land fragmentation remains a significant barrier to efficient land management and sustainable territorial planning; consequently, the rapid development of geospatial technologies—including geographic information systems (GISs), UAV-based surveying, satellite remote sensing, spatial data infrastructures, and digital cadastral systems—has fundamentally transformed the way land consolidation projects are designed, implemented, and monitored.
The digital transformation of land administration introduces new analytical possibilities, improves transparency, enhances stakeholder participation, and supports evidence-based decision-making. At the same time, it raises important challenges related to data integration, interoperability, legal frameworks, and environmental sustainability.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original research articles and review papers that explore innovative geospatial methods, digital tools, and data-driven approaches applied to land consolidation and rural land management, seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice and highlight technological advances that support efficient, transparent, and sustainable land administration systems.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- GIS-based decision support systems in land consolidation;
- UAV and remote sensing applications in rural land restructuring;
- Digital cadastre and spatial data integration;
- Environmental assessment in land consolidation projects;
- Smart land management and sustainable rural development;
- Legal and institutional aspects of digital land administration.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Arkadiusz Doroż
Prof. Dr. Jaroslaw Janus
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land consolidation
- rural land management
- geodesy
- geographic information systems (GIS)
- UAV surveying
- digital cadastre
- land administration
- spatial planning
- sustainable rural development
- geospatial technologies
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