Land Administration Systems
Promoting sustainability with efficient land management
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Gated communities are becoming more common, and they can really change how people live. The quality of life in a place depends on things like how safe it is, how nice the environment is, and what services are available. Gated communities can improve these things by creating nice, safe spaces with good services, especially in places that didn't hav…
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Promoting sustainability with efficient land management
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Improving land administration services in Ghana
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Continued and increasing urbanization worldwide makes it ever more complicated to keep urban development sustainable. This is a serious task for urban planners and managers. To this end, modern GIS (Geographic Information System) technology has a lot to offer in terms of solution support. A GIS is an information system that integrates, stores, edi…
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- Land Administration Systems
From Paper to Pixel: The Challenge and Vision of Survey Plan Digitization
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For much of humankind’s history, land has been an elementary resource to sustain human life. It brings together resources like water, plants, wildlife, and places to grow crops and build homes, and other infrastructure. Ownership of land or access to it have been common reasons for dispute, between people, between cities, between co…By, R.A. de 6 min
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