FIG Commission 7 - Cadastre and Land Management

"FIG Commission 7 is focusing on providing a discussion platform for ideas and tools to improve land tenure security around the world. Public-private partnerships in land administration and fit-for-purpose are topics of particular interest. "

What we do

For the term 2019-2022 FIG Commission 7 will be working on:

Cadastre Technologies and Smart City (WG 7.1)
Fit-for-purpose (FFP) implementation (WG 7.2)
Cadastral Template 2.0 and the SDGs (WG 7.3)
Urban Challenges (WG 7.4)

For the full work plan, please visit Work Plan 2019-2022
(Original work plan .pdf-format )

Learn more about how Commission 7 is working with the SDG's

General

FIG Commission 1

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Commission 7 at FIG Congress 2022

October 2022

The Congress took place 11-15 September in Warsaw, Poland. Commission 7 held its annual meeting with outset in their prepared Report and Agenda. Commission 7 was also involved in sessions covering Cadastre and Land Management within the theme of Smart Surveyors for Volunteering for the future Geospatial excellence for a better living. Read more

Commission 7, Chair Elect

August 2021

The General Assembly elected Mr. Rohan Bennett from Australia/Netherlands, SSSI/GIN, as the Chair Elect of Commission 7, the elected Chair Elect term as the Chair of the Commission will be initiated at the FIG Congress 2022 for the period 2023-2026.

Commision 7 Annual meeting - 2022

FIG Commission 7 held its 2022 Annual Meeting on 26 and 27 October in Sevilla, Spain.

There were participants both onsite as well as online.

Find the programme and proceedings here

Read the report of the meeting here

UPCOMING EVENTS

FIG Working Week 2023

28 June-1 July 2023 in Orlando, USA

www.fig.net/fig2023

February 2023

	Publications		Work Plans

	Proceedings		Working Groups

	Key Documents		Events

Meet the officers Commission Chair Dr. Rohan Bennett, Australia Senior Geodetic Consultant Contact: FIGCommission7 [at] fig.net
Working Group Chairs: Cadastre Technologies and Smart City (WG 7.1) Bong Bae Jang, South Korea Fit-for-purpose (FFP) implementation (WG 7.2) Paula Dijkstra, the Netherlands Cadastral Template 2.0 and the SDGs (WG 7.3) Daniel Steudler, Switzerland Urban Challenges (WG 7.4) - Joint Working Group with 8 and 9 List of all officers		Delegates and Correspondents: Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission. Commission Delegates and correspondents Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.

Achievements
	This publication is the result of cooperation between the World Bank and the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) over recent years to address the issue of building and sustaining land administration systems that are basically fit-for-purpose rather than blindly complying with top-end technological solutions and rigid regulations for accuracy. Read the publication		Many 3D Cadastral activities have been conducted during the past two decades: six FIG 3D Cadastres workshops, sessions at FIG working weeks and congresses, three special issues in international scientific journals, four terms of the joint commission 3 and commission 7 FIG Working Group on 3D Cadastres. Website Read the publication

	Cadastral Template 2.0 - a worldwide comparison af Cadastral Systems tool. The cadastral template is based on a raster of 17 data fields, which would need to be filled in according to its specific description. You can find that description in the questionnaire.		The publication projects the trends and developed visions of what cadastral systems might be in 20 years' time (published 1998). Cadastre 2014 has received worldwide attention and has been translated into 28 languages. Cadastre 2014 and beyond Read the publication

Terms Term 2019-2022 Term 2015-2018 Term 2011-2014 Term 2007-2010 Term 2003-2006 Working Groups Term 2019-2022 WG 7.1: Cadastre Technologies and Smart City WG 7.2: Fit-for-purpose (FFP) implementation WG 7.3: Cadastral Template 2.0 and the SDGs All working groups	Cadastral Template Website 3D Cadastre Website Cadastre 2014 FIG Pub. no 61: CADASTRE 2014 and Beyond Pub: Cadaster 2014 - a vision for a future cadastral system Newsletters Newsletter - 2019	FIG Publications FIG Pub. no. 72: Best Practices 3D Cadastres FIG Pub. no. 60: Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration FIG Pub. no. 52: The Social Tenure Domain Model - A Pro-Poor Land Tool FIG Proceedings List of FIG Conference Proceedings FIG Surveyors Reference Library	Events All events Reports to General Assembly Report, May 2020 Report, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2019 Report, Istanbul, Turkey, 2018 Report, Helsinki, Finland, 2017 All reports