Land Parcel Identification

Abstract

Land parcel is the finest unit to describe the location, boundary, and ownership in land management. Land survey is the most popular way to identify land parcel in the history of land management. However, land parcel survey come with huge financial cost while the accuracy of the survey is not acceptable for many applications such as agricultural management. The development of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) introduced a novel way of collecting, storing, and analyzing agricultural land parcel information. This study discusses agricultural land parcel identification and management approaches from local to global level. In most countries, local authorities are responsible for the collection and storage of land parcel information. For this reason, the aggregation of land parcel information from various authorities’ datasets becomes critical in large-scale agricultural management activities. However, agencies and nations develop land parcel databases differently, and these databases are often not interoperable. This study also summarizes the state-of-art approaches to reduce friction in land parcel database integration across the globe. The study concludes that international standards and corporations between organizations are essential to the management of land parcel information in agro-geoinformation systems.