Cadastral Intelligence, Mandated Mobs, and the Rise of the Cadastrobots

Rohan Bennett

Cadastral intelligence? is the to ability acquire knowledge and apply skills about the relationship between people, rights, and land. Within a country, appropriate levels of cadastral intelligence are needed to ensure cadastres are complete, up-to-date, respected? and ultimately contributing to sustainable development. Cadastral intelligence can be examined across governance layers and societal sectors: different actors will hold different levels of cadastral intelligence. In many countries, however, cadastral intelligence is vested in a select few professionals: other cadastral knowledge lies latent or largely underexploited, until now. In this paper, we develop a simple model of cadastral intelligence, one that can be used to assess strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for cadastral development within a given country context. We reveal why countries with limited numbers of professionals are still able to complete cadastral systems within a limited number of years; why countries with high number of professionals can struggle to maintain complete systems; and how ?artificial cadastral intelligence? may radically change how cadastres are created and maintained.

Event: FIG Working Week 2016 : Recovery from Disaster

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