FIG Commission 7 - Cadastre and Land Management

"Renewing, Reimagining, and Recommitting for Relevance: Cadastral surveyors have long recognised the value of a global perspective on land administration – for building technical consensus, supporting advocacy and awareness, and advancing the domain. The 2023-26 period builds on this tradition."

What we do

For the term 2023-2026 FIG Commission 7 will be working on:

WG 7.1 - Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA)
WG 7.2 - Fit for Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA)
WG 7.3 - 3D and LADM (3D/LADM)
WG 7.4 - Artificial Intelligence 4 Land Administration (AI4LA)
WG 7.5 - Women’s Access to Land and S4HL
WG 7.6 - Integrated Land Management
WG 7.7 - Education in Land Administration
WG 7.8 - Comparative Land Administration

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FIG Regional Conference 2024
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Commission 7 Annual Meeting
24-26 September 2024 Kuching, Malaysia
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Commission 7 Annual Meeting

24-26 September 2024

The Commission 7 meeting will be held jointly with Commission 5, LADM, STDM Workshops and Geoinformation Week 2024 in Malaysia under the main title: Geospatial Innovation for Sustainable Rural and Urban Development

Commission 7 at FIG Working Week 2024

June 2024

The FIG Working Week 2024 was held from 19-24 May in Accra, Ghana. During the conference, Commission 7 had organised severaly sessions in the tehcnical programme and conducted its annual meeting. Additionally, the progress of all commissions was presented at the General Assembly.

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Meet the officers Commission Chair Dr. Rohan Bennett, Australia Senior Geodetic Consultant Contact: FIGCommission7 [at] fig.net Vice Chair of Administration Kirsikka Riekkinen, Finland kirsikka.riekkine [at] aalto.fi
Working Group Chairs: Chair of Working Group 7.1 Amalia Velasco, Spain amalia.velasco [at] catastro.hacienda.gob.es Chair of Working Group 7.2 Israel Taiwo, Nigeria taiwo_io [at] fedpolyado.edu.ng Chair of Working Group 7.3 Peter van Oosterom, Netherlands P.J.M.vanOosterom [at] tudelft.nl Chair of Working Group 7.4 Mila Koeva, Bulgaria m.n.koeva [at] utwente.nl Chair of Working Group 7.5 Marisa Balas, Mozambique marisa.balas [at] gmail.com Chair of Working Group 7.6 Claudia Stöcker, Germany / Walter de Vries claudia.stoecker [at] uni-muenster.de Chair of Working Group 7.7 Simon Hull, South Africa simon.hull [at] uct.ac.za Chair of Working Group 7.8 Charl-Thom Bayer, Namibia charl-thom.bayer [at] landportal.info List of all officers		Delegates and Correspondents: Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission. Commission Delegates and correspondents Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.

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	FIG Publication 80: Digital transformation and land administration Starting from the digital disruptions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, this publication examines the state-of-play and future directions for digital transformation in land administration in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region and beyond.Read the publication
	This publication is the result of cooperation between the World Bank and the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) over recent years to address the issue of building and sustaining land administration systems that are basically fit-for-purpose rather than blindly complying with top-end technological solutions and rigid regulations for accuracy. Read the publication		Many 3D Cadastral activities have been conducted during the past two decades: six FIG 3D Cadastres workshops, sessions at FIG working weeks and congresses, three special issues in international scientific journals, four terms of the joint commission 3 and commission 7 FIG Working Group on 3D Cadastres. Website Read the publication

	Cadastral Template 2.0 - a worldwide comparison af Cadastral Systems tool. The cadastral template is based on a raster of 17 data fields, which would need to be filled in according to its specific description. You can find that description in the questionnaire.		The publication projects the trends and developed visions of what cadastral systems might be in 20 years' time (published 1998). Cadastre 2014 has received worldwide attention and has been translated into 28 languages. Cadastre 2014 and beyond Read the publication

Terms Term Term 2019-2022 Term 2015-2018 Term 2011-2014 Term 2007-2010 Term 2003-2006 Working Groups Term 2023-2026 WG 7.1 - Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA) WG 7.2 - Fit for Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA) WG 7.3 - 3D and LADM (3D/LADM) WG 7.4 - Artificial Intelligence 4 Land Administration (AI4LA) WG 7.5 - Women’s Access to Land and S4HL WG 7.6 - Integrated Land Management WG 7.7 - Education in Land Administration WG 7.8 - Comparative Land Administration Work plan	Cadastral Template Website 3D Cadastre Website Cadastre 2014 FIG Pub. no 61: CADASTRE 2014 and Beyond Pub: Cadaster 2014 - a vision for a future cadastral system	FIG Publications FIG pub. no 80: Digital transformation and land administration FIG Pub. no. 72: Best Practices 3D Cadastres FIG Pub. no. 60: Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration FIG Pub. no. 52: The Social Tenure Domain Model - A Pro-Poor Land Tool FIG Proceedings List of FIG Conference Proceedings FIG Surveyors Reference Library	Events All events Reports to General Assembly Report, May 2020 Report, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2019 Report, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 Report, Helsinki, Finland, 2017 All reports

FIG Commission 7 - Cadastre and Land Management

"Renewing, Reimagining, and Recommitting for Relevance: Cadastral surveyors have long recognised the value of a global perspective on land administration – for building technical consensus, supporting advocacy and awareness, and advancing the domain. The 2023-26 period builds on this tradition."

What we do

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Commission 7 Annual Meeting 24-26 September 2024 Kuching, Malaysia web site

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