TY - JOUR
T1 - Geospatial tool and geocloud platform innovations
T2 - A fit-for-purpose land administration assessment
AU - Koeva, M.N.
AU - Humayun, Mohammed Imaduddin
AU - Timm, Christian
AU - Stöcker, C.
AU - Crommelinck, Sophie
AU - Chipofya, M.C.
AU - Bennett, Rohan
AU - Zevenbergen, J.A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research described in this paper was funded by the research project ?its4land,? which is part of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union, project number 687828. Funding of the publication costs for this article has kindly been provided by the School of Land Administration Studies, University of Twente, in combination with Kadaster International, the Netherlands. Its4land team would like to also express their acknowledgments to their col-leagues for their support during the fieldworks and workshops and the experts that were part of the survey.
Funding Information:
Funding: The research described in this paper was funded by the research project “its4land,” which is part of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union, project number 687828. Funding of the publication costs for this article has kindly been provided by the School of Land Administration Studies, University of Twente, in combination with Kadaster International, the Netherlands.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - 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 European Commission Horizon 2020 project, developed, adapted, and tested innovative geospatial tools including (1) software underpinned by the smart Sketch maps concept, called SmartSkeMa; (2) a workflow for applying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); and (3) a boundary delineator tool based on the UAV images. Additionally, the consortium developed (4) a platform called Publish and Share (PaS), enabling integration of all the outputs of tool sharing and publishing of land information through geocloud web services. The individual tools were developed, tested, and demonstrated based on requirements from Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar. The platform was further tested by key informants and experts in a workshop in Rwanda after the AfricaGIS conference in 2019. With the project concluding in 2020, this paper seeks to undertake an assessment of the tools and the PaS platform against the elements of fit-for-purpose land administration. The results show that while the tools can function and deliver outputs independently and reliably, PaS enables interoperability by allowing them to be combined and integrated into land administration workflows. This feature is useful for tailoring approaches for specific country contexts. In this regard, developers of technical approaches tackling land administration issues are further encouraged to include interoperability and the use of recognized standards in designs.
AB - 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 European Commission Horizon 2020 project, developed, adapted, and tested innovative geospatial tools including (1) software underpinned by the smart Sketch maps concept, called SmartSkeMa; (2) a workflow for applying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV); and (3) a boundary delineator tool based on the UAV images. Additionally, the consortium developed (4) a platform called Publish and Share (PaS), enabling integration of all the outputs of tool sharing and publishing of land information through geocloud web services. The individual tools were developed, tested, and demonstrated based on requirements from Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar. The platform was further tested by key informants and experts in a workshop in Rwanda after the AfricaGIS conference in 2019. With the project concluding in 2020, this paper seeks to undertake an assessment of the tools and the PaS platform against the elements of fit-for-purpose land administration. The results show that while the tools can function and deliver outputs independently and reliably, PaS enables interoperability by allowing them to be combined and integrated into land administration workflows. This feature is useful for tailoring approaches for specific country contexts. In this regard, developers of technical approaches tackling land administration issues are further encouraged to include interoperability and the use of recognized standards in designs.
KW - ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
KW - ITC-GOLD
KW - UT-Gold-D
U2 - 10.3390/land10060557
DO - 10.3390/land10060557
M3 - Article
SN - 2073-445X
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - Land
JF - Land
IS - 6
M1 - 557
ER -
