Abstract
The ability of keeping a record of geospatial information, knowing how it changed over time, is crucial for landscape analysis and territorial government. Land management is still a problem. Many governmental databases are incomplete, and there is a lack of reliable information. Good land management implies having a tool that can keep track of all the information available about a certain property and its changes over time. In this paper, we propose a land management tool where managers access all the information on a certain parcel of land—its boundaries, the land registration, a map which verifies the landcover, and the historic of updates of territorial limits. With the proposed tool, it is possible to edit the information of any property, whether it is active or not—that is, to also edit properties that no longer exist today, but that the user wants to add information to, for legal or other reasons. Keeping track of data properties’ revision history is groundbreaking due to the fact it is not well developed in existing tools. We will look at Brazil as a use case, where land management is a critical problem.
Highlights
The information technology facilitates the development of land use systems based on the simulation of dynamic land use interactive processes [1]
Many of the databases do not follow the evolution of properties over time, keeping track of the data revision history and that does not allow the edition of historical spatial data
We present a new characteristic for property history—that is, the possibility of the edition of the spatial data history, something that is not provided in the tools for better land management
Summary
The information technology facilitates the development of land use systems based on the simulation of dynamic land use interactive processes [1]. There is an increasing use of geoinformatics in the design of geoinformation systems and decision support systems for realizing sustainable land management at different scales and for specific user groups (land registry specialist, land analyst, and field inspector). Land management is essential for governments and companies for keeping control of updated historical information [3]. The control of all transactions in which a property may be involved, regularization of irregular settlements and the titling of its occupants are some relevant examples. The problem is that many governmental databases are incomplete and do not contain reliable information. Many of the databases do not follow the evolution of properties over time, keeping track of the data revision history and that does not allow the edition of historical spatial data
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