Learn to use geo-information management to develop cadastral maps, land registries, and other types of land records that help people secure their land tenure and resolve land conflicts.
Land is at the basis of all societies. However, more than 70% of land parcels in the world aren’t included in formal land registration systems. In the specialisation in Geo-Information Management for Land Administrations, you will learn to develop responsible land administration systems that document and map people-to-land relationships. Without such systems, authorities and communities don’t know who owns what, residents don’t have security of tenure and can lose their land or get evicted at any time. All countries need an efficient land administration system in place: this is a core function of each country. In this specialisation you will learn to manage land rights, restrictions, and responsibilities using (3D) cadastral data, UAV data processing, and geo-information modelling.
What is Geo-Information Management for Land Administration?
How can you use geospatial technologies and innovative methods to increase land tenure security, create efficient land markets, and support land development? What about preventing situations that hamper local and national economic development? For example, how can rural areas be demarcated, so the people who live there can easily access and cultivate their land? Or how to solve a case in which farmers can’t cultivate a land because of an urban expansion? In the specialisation in Geo-Information Management for Land Administration, you will apply Fit-For-Purpose land administration to solve these and similar issues. The approach combines three core frameworks: the spatial framework, using aerial and satellite data; the legal framework, learning about land tenure, land rights, and land laws in urban and rural settings; and the institutional framework, ensuring transparent land information with easy and affordable access for everyone.
Thanks to the collaboration with the The Netherlands' Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, you will be able to use its know-how and get to implement in practice what you have learned during your theory classes. What’s more, you will work on various real-life problems and solutions such as collecting data from a field using drones, so you can determine property boundaries. Then, you will create a map projection and a textual database with information about the owner and the parcel of the land: for example, is it a just a yard or a fruit garden, is there a forest or an urban area around? Also, you will create a model of your home country's cadastre: who are the actors and how do they communicate and deliver services to citizens and other stakeholders?
What will you learn?
As a graduate of the Master's in Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation with a specialisation in Geo-Information Management for Land Administration, you have acquired specific scientific knowledge, skills, and values that will help you in your future career.
Knowledge
After completing this Master’s specialisation, you:
- know how to use cadastral intelligence to design and apply responsible land administration solutions;
- have a solid knowledge of cadastral data acquisition technologies and dissemination methods based on aerial, UAV, LiDAR or mobile data, and 3D cadastres;
- have a solid knowledge of Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration, Responsible Land Administration, ISO Int. Standard Land Administration Domain Model (LADM).
Skills
After successfully finishing this Master’s specialisation, you:
- can design and apply responsible land administration solutions;
- can create and maintain scalable land information systems and models;
- can implement procedural regulations in land tenure and property rights.
Values
After completing this Master’s specialisation, you:
- maintain a critical attitude towards technological innovation in land administration management;
- establish land management systems for sustainability and equality in land governance;
- use geospatial data in an ethical way.
Other master’s and specialisations
Is this specialisation not exactly what you are looking for? Maybe one of the other specialisations suits you better. You can also find out more about related Master’s at the University of Twente: