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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,213 Views
18 Pages

Modeling the Urban Low-Altitude Traffic Space Based on the Land Administration Domain Model—Case Studies in Shenzhen, China

  • Chengpeng Li,
  • Zhigang Zhao,
  • Yebin Chen,
  • Wei Zhu,
  • Jiahao Qiu,
  • Siyao Jiang and
  • Renzhong Guo

1 December 2024

The urban low-altitude airspace is an integral part of urban space. As low-altitude utilization activities are being performed closer to the land surface, the management of the low-altitude space has become a focus of land administration. The managem...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,648 Views
27 Pages

9 April 2024

This study illustrates the linkages between the ISO’s Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) and the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), highlighting the role of the LADM in promoting effective land administration suitable for eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,060 Views
17 Pages

Fit-For-Purpose Upscaling Land Administration—A Case Study from Benin

  • Steven Mekking,
  • Dossa Victorien Kougblenou and
  • Fabrice Gilles Kossou

21 April 2021

The government of Benin in 2013 decided upon a centralized land administration, with the purpose of recording the entire national territory in one land administration system to promote durable economic development by increasing legal certainty in rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,410 Views
36 Pages

INTERLIS Language for Modelling Legal 3D Spaces and Physical 3D Objects by Including Formalized Implementable Constraints and Meaningful Code Lists

  • Eftychia Kalogianni,
  • Efi Dimopoulou,
  • Wilko Quak,
  • Michael Germann,
  • Lorenz Jenni and
  • Peter Van Oosterom

The Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) is one of the first ISO spatial domain standards, and has been proven one of the best candidates for unambiguously representing 3D Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities. Consequently, multiple LADM-bas...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,380 Views
25 Pages

3D Land Administration: A Review and a Future Vision in the Context of the Spatial Development Lifecycle

  • Eftychia Kalogianni,
  • Peter van Oosterom,
  • Efi Dimopoulou and
  • Christiaan Lemmen

Land Administration practices worldwide rely mainly on 2D-based systems to define legal and other spatial boundaries related to land interests. However, the built environment is increasingly becoming spatially complex. Land administrators are challen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,773 Views
32 Pages

Applying the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) for Integrated, Standardized, and Sustainable Development of Cadastre Country Profile for Pakistan

  • Muhammad Sheraz Ahsan,
  • Ejaz Hussain,
  • Christiaan Lemmen,
  • Malumbo Chaka Chipofya,
  • Jaap Zevenbergen,
  • Salman Atif,
  • Javier Morales,
  • Mila Koeva and
  • Zahir Ali

18 June 2024

Rapid urban growth necessitates focused attention regarding its policy and governance to ensure affordable housing, transparent and efficient real-world systems, reduce social inequalities, and promote sustainable development. This study delves into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,611 Views
21 Pages

Developing an LADM Valuation Information Model for Mongolia

  • Munkhbaatar Buuveibaatar,
  • Kangjae Lee and
  • Wonhee Lee

15 April 2023

Modern land/property valuation practice requires three-dimensional (3D) valuation, which is crucial to better valuate and assess values of property units. However, conventional land/property valuation systems primarily exist in 2D form, which hinders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,218 Views
25 Pages

Toward the Development of a Marine Administration System Based on International Standards

  • Katerina Athanasiou,
  • Michael Sutherland,
  • Christos Kastrisios,
  • Lysandros Tsoulos,
  • Charisse Griffith-Charles,
  • Dexter Davis and
  • Efi Dimopoulou

The interests, responsibilities and opportunities of states to provide infrastructure and resource management are not limited to their land territory but extend to marine areas as well. So far, although the theoretical structure of a Marine Administr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,989 Views
25 Pages

LADM-Based Model for Natural Resource Administration in China

  • Zhongguo Xu,
  • Yuefei Zhuo,
  • Rong Liao,
  • Cifang Wu,
  • Yuzhe Wu and
  • Guan Li

China’s rapid urbanization and industrialization have continually placed massive pressure on the country’s natural resources. The fragmented departmental administration of natural resources also intensifies the problem of sustainable use....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,515 Views
19 Pages

20 March 2023

Land administration (LA) is concerned with processes. Simply put, LA cannot be understood, built, or improved unless the processes associated with it are understood. When it comes to the processes involved in LA, two general processes can be identifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,154 Views
20 Pages

20 May 2023

Public utilities, such as electricity, water, heat, oil, gas, and electronic communication, are a vital component of every modern society. With rising urbanisation, more complex buildings and infrastructure, underground and overground construction, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
716 Views
21 Pages

7 August 2025

Forest tenure functions as a critical institutional mechanism globally for curbing deforestation and degradation and advancing sustainable forest administration, ultimately underpinning the provision of vital ecosystem services. However, research on...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,927 Views
22 Pages

29 March 2024

Sharing land data from one department to the other is a continuous process. A solid structure and a set of guidelines on how to share them is to be put in place as a foundation for the development of a land administration data exchange and interopera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,986 Views
19 Pages

Croatian LADM Profile Extension for State-Owned Agricultural Land Management

  • Josip Lisjak,
  • Miodrag Roić,
  • Hrvoje Tomić and
  • Siniša Mastelić Ivić

23 February 2021

The paper presents a conceptual model for the disposition of state agricultural land. The model is made as an extension of the Croatian Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) country profile. The LADM 19152:2012 is an International Organization for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,719 Views
16 Pages

19 May 2021

Access to land for many people in Africa is insecure and continues to pose risks to poverty, hunger, forced evictions, and social conflicts. The delivery of land tenure in many cases has not been adequately addressed. Fit-for-purpose spatial framewor...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,035 Views
19 Pages

Land Administration As-A-Service: Relevance, Applications, and Models

  • Rohan Mark Bennett,
  • Jerome Donovan,
  • Eryadi Masli and
  • Kirsikka Riekkinen

12 January 2023

The ‘as-a-Service’ (aaS) concept of the IT sector is suggested to reduce upfront and ongoing costs, enable easier scaling, and make for simpler system upgrades. The concept is explored in relation to the domain of land administration, wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,494 Views
26 Pages

The LADM Spatial Plan Information Country Profile for Serbia

  • Aleksandra Radulović,
  • Dubravka Sladić,
  • Aleksandar Ristić,
  • Dušan Jovanović,
  • Sead Mašović and
  • Miro Govedarica

Spatial planning deals with the organization and regulation of space with the goal to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. Spatial planning plays a vital role in land administration, encompassing land development, management, land use asse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,272 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2019

Companies and governmental agencies are increasingly seeking ways to explore emerging trends and issues that have the potential to shape up their future operational environments. This paper exploits text mining techniques for investigating future sig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,147 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2019

To promote rural revitalisation, China’s central government revised the land administration law to allow rural collective construction land (RCL) to be traded in the market and attract private and financial capitals into rural investment and de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,657 Views
16 Pages

A GIS-Based Web Approach for Serving Land Price Information

  • Yongjun Yang,
  • Yaqin Sun,
  • Songnian Li,
  • Shaoliang Zhang,
  • Kuoyin Wang,
  • Huping Hou and
  • Shishuo Xu

19 October 2015

Participants in the land market are usually hampered to browse and analyze the land price information due to the lack of information sources and available analysis tools. A service-oriented GIS-based web system was developed to provide a practical so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,704 Views
19 Pages

Current research on automated driving systems focuses on Level 4 automated driving (AD) in specific operational design Domains (ODD). Measurement data from customer fleet operation are commonly used to extract scenarios and ODD features (road infrast...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,407 Views
20 Pages

SmartSkeMa: Scalable Documentation for Community and Customary Land Tenure

  • Malumbo C. Chipofya,
  • Sahib Jan and
  • Angela Schwering

22 June 2021

According to the online database landmarkmap, up to an estimated 50% or more of the world’s habitable land is held by indigenous peoples and communities. While legal and procedural provisions are being made for bureaucratically managing the many diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,182 Views
18 Pages

Environmental Fragility Zoning Using GIS and AHP Modeling: Perspectives for the Conservation of Natural Ecosystems in Brazil

  • Luciano Cavalcante de Jesus França,
  • Luis Filipe Lopes,
  • Marcelino Santos de Morais,
  • Gerson dos Santos Lisboa,
  • Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha,
  • Vicente Toledo Machado de Morais Junior,
  • Reynaldo Campos Santana and
  • Danielle Piuzana Mucida

The degradation of natural ecosystems triggers global environmental, economic, and social problems. To prevent this, it is necessary to identify the aptitude of priority areas for conservation or use by considering land fragility from multiple enviro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,687 Views
20 Pages

Visualization of 3D Survey Data for Strata Titles

  • Trias Aditya,
  • Dany Laksono,
  • Febrian F. Susanta,
  • I. Istarno,
  • D. Diyono and
  • Didik Ariyanto

Major cities and urban areas are beginning to develop and use 3D properties and public facilities. Consequently, 3D cadastral surveys are increasingly being employed for strata unit ownership registration as a part of land administration services. At...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,928 Views
18 Pages

11 November 2022

Most countries have considered the adoption of the international standard ISO 19152—Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) mostly for the improvement of their cadastral systems in the context of developing the 3D cadastre. However, the adoptio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,734 Views
38 Pages

Integrating Legal and Physical Dimensions of Urban Environments

  • Ali Aien,
  • Abbas Rajabifard,
  • Mohsen Kalantari and
  • Davood Shojaei

17 August 2015

Building Information Models (e.g., IFC) and virtual 3D city models (e.g., CityGML) are revolutionising the way we manage information about our cities. However, the main focus of these models is on the physical and functional characteristics of urban...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,610 Views
22 Pages

22 February 2021

The emergence of “blockchain” technology as an alternative data management technique has spawned a myriad of conceptual and logical design work across multiple industries and sectors. It is also argued to enable operationalisation of the earlier “sma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,983 Views
22 Pages

Object Analysis and 3D Spatial Modelling for Uniform Natural Resources in China

  • Shen Ying,
  • Chengpeng Li,
  • Naibin Chen,
  • Yizhen Jia,
  • Renzhong Guo and
  • Lin Li

29 October 2021

Natural resource management has entered a new stage in 2018 in the People’s Republic of China (China) marked by the establishment of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China (MNRPRC). More functions and responsibilities are integrated in the MNRPRC...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,645 Views
16 Pages

The Extension of IFC For Supporting 3D Cadastre LADM Geometry

  • Marija Petronijević,
  • Nenad Višnjevac,
  • Nataša Praščević and
  • Branislav Bajat

The growth of densely populated urban areas has caused traditional cadastral registration systems to face many difficulties in representing complex and multilevel property situations on 2D maps. These challenges, combined with the rapid development o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,517 Views
20 Pages

27 September 2020

As 3D cadastres offer advantages in several areas by providing information with greater accuracy and a high level of detail, a diagnosis of the cadastral situation is required prior to the implementation of a 3D cadastral model. Therefore, this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,208 Views
21 Pages

Towards 3D Cadastre in Serbia: Development of Serbian Cadastral Domain Model

  • Aleksandra Radulović,
  • Dubravka Sladić and
  • Miro Govedarica

This paper proposes a Serbian cadastral domain model as the country profile for the real estate cadastre, based on the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM), defined within ISO 19152. National laws and other legal acts were analyzed and the incorre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Views
22 Pages

11 December 2025

The mitigation of natural hazards is a persistent challenge in Chile, where recurrent events such as summer forest fires and winter floods cause severe material and human losses. Municipalities, as key actors in disaster management, often face diffic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,060 Views
19 Pages

The paper presents a country profile for the cadastre of the Czech Republic based on the ISO 19152:2012 Land Administration Domain Model (LADM). The proposed profile consists of both legal and spatial components and represents an important driving fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
12,387 Views
36 Pages

1 February 2013

Over 50% of world’s population presently resides in cities, and this number is expected to rise to ~70% by 2050. Increasing urbanization problems including population growth, urban sprawl, land use change, unemployment, and environmental degradation,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
10,032 Views
25 Pages

Utilizing BIM and GIS for Representation and Visualization of 3D Cadastre

  • Jing Sun,
  • Siying Mi,
  • Per-ola Olsson,
  • Jenny Paulsson and
  • Lars Harrie

The current three-dimensionally (3D) delimited property units are in most countries registered using two-dimensional (2D) documentation and textual descriptions. This approach has limitations if used for representing the actual extent of complicated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,344 Views
16 Pages

12 February 2020

Near real time (NRT) remote sensing derived land surface temperature (Ts) data has an utmost importance in various applications of natural hazards and disasters. Space-based instrument MODIS (moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer) acquired NR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,605 Views
18 Pages

A BIM-IFC Technical Solution for 3D Crowdsourced Cadastral Surveys Based on LADM

  • Maria Gkeli,
  • Chryssy Potsiou,
  • Sofia Soile,
  • Giorgos Vathiotis and
  • Maria-Eleni Cravariti

6 September 2021

In most countries, three-dimensional (3D) property units are registered utilizing two-dimensional (2D) documentation and textual description. This approach has several limitations as it is unable to represent the actual extent of complicated 3D prope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,582 Views
18 Pages

Prototype of the 3D Cadastral System Based on a NoSQL Database and a JavaScript Visualization Application

  • Nenad Višnjevac,
  • Rajica Mihajlović,
  • Mladen Šoškić,
  • Željko Cvijetinović and
  • Branislav Bajat

3D cadastral systems are more complex than traditional cadastral systems and they require more complex technical solutions and innovative use of developing technologies. Regarding data integrity and data consistency, 3D cadastral data should be maint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,720 Views
26 Pages

5 July 2024

In post-war environments, property valuation encounters obstacles stemming from widespread destruction, population displacement, and complex legal frameworks. This study addresses post-war property valuation by integrating war-related considerations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,590 Views
19 Pages

LADM Based Utility Network Cadastre in Serbia

  • Aleksandra Radulović,
  • Dubravka Sladić,
  • Miro Govedarica,
  • Aleksandar Ristić and
  • Dušan Jovanović

The utility network cadastre in Serbia is the main register of utility lines and the rights to them. The Law on State Survey and Cadastre states the necessity for implementing a unified information system of both a real estate and utility network cad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,775 Views
26 Pages

Continuously Updated Digital Elevation Models (CUDEMs) to Support Coastal Inundation Modeling

  • Christopher J. Amante,
  • Matthew Love,
  • Kelly Carignan,
  • Michael G. Sutherland,
  • Michael MacFerrin and
  • Elliot Lim

22 March 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) generates digital elevation models (DEMs) that range from the local to global scale. Collectively, these DEMs are essential to determinin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,086 Views
24 Pages

17 November 2020

This paper considers the landscape as both a material and an ideological representation and starts from the assumption that spatial patterns arise as a result of the ideological imperative of the process that forms the landscape. The research takes o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
7,824 Views
32 Pages

Supporting Indoor Navigation Using Access Rights to Spaces Based on Combined Use of IndoorGML and LADM Models

  • Abdullah Alattas,
  • Sisi Zlatanova,
  • Peter Van Oosterom,
  • Efstathia Chatzinikolaou,
  • Christiaan Lemmen and
  • Ki-Joune Li

The aim of this research is to investigate the combined use of IndoorGML and the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) to define the accessibility of the indoor spaces based on the ownership and/or the functional right for use. The users of the ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,134 Views
29 Pages

20 June 2024

Infrastructure facilities that serve the city as a whole and should be considered as a whole should be built in an orderly and planned manner, just as cities are. Infrastructure facilities become obsolete over time. Aging infrastructure facilities ma...