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Geospatial Tool and Geocloud Platform Innovations: A Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration Assessment
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Claudia, Stöcker Koeva, Mila Humayun, Mohammed Timm, Christian Crommelinck, Sophie Chipofya, Malumbo Bennett, Rohan Zevenbergen, Jaap |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | 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. |
| Starting Page | 557 |
| e-ISSN | 2073445X |
| DOI | 10.3390/land10060557 |
| Journal | Land |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Volume Number | 10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-05-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Land Remote Sensing Fit-for-purpose Land Tenure Land Administration Uav Feature Extraction |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
