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Abstract
Land is limited, non renewable resource; it is the location of most human activity and in many parts of the world is over utilized and corrupted by urbanization and industrialization. The ownership of land and its resources has been the basis of all material wealth for most societies since the beginning of civilization. It has been treated as a measure of wealth, status and power all over the world. This fact makes the management of land resources and information essential; such management can not be achieved without an efficient Land Information System (LIS) capable of assembling an information base about land. LIS is badly needed to prevent the waste of natural resources and to provide the efficient flow of information needed for planning, management and development projects. The development of this LIS should be part of the basic infrastructure of any country. This research provides a detailed approach to create the digital agricultural cadastre in Egypt (rural digital cadastre) using existing documents. The proposed approach depends on combining the geometric layout of individual parcels available within the land registry (the Mutation Form) along with the parcel location and shape available on the paper cadastral map sheets of 1:1000 and 1:2500 scale. In one side, all cadastral map sheets related to all areas not covered by pervious recent projects and still have paper maps (covers around 5 million Feddan) will be transferred to digital format through digitizing; all parcel related data will be collected from the Mutation Form to create the tabular database and will be connected to the digitized map sheet through the parcel ID. On the other hand,polygons of all individual parcels included within these map sheets will be constructed from geometrical data included in the Mutation form. Finally; every parcel’s polygon constructed from mutation form data will be fitted in its location in the digitized map sheet to replace the same previously digitized parcel. This proposed approach aims to keep the same dimensions and area of parcels in the final digital map as included in the Mutation Form; i.e. will eliminate the errors related to draftsman and other errors that would be resulted from building the digital cadastre through digitizing the paper map sheet only; i.e. the resulted digital cadastre will be more accurate than the original paper map sheet itself. Moreover, this approach will produce an up to date as well as a homogenous cadastre (both cadastral map and land register would include the same parcel’s dimensions and area). A full application is developed using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to implement such approach utilizing the ArcGIS 9.2 of ESRI. ESRI software (ArcGIS) is used since it was the available resource for me as well as being the software package I am having experience with. Meanwhile the work can be done using any other GIS software and I am not recommending specific software. The proposed methodology was tested in creating the digital cadastre for a pilot area covering around 250 Feddan and proved very good results in terms of accuracy and time. The required manpower, time, hardware, software and cost for implementing such approach to build the digital rural cadastre in Egypt are identified.This research with the proposed approach for building a consistent digital rural cadastre was finished few years back before the announcement of the National Project for Automating the Rural Cadastre for Egypt at June 2005, the first phase of this project started during the year 2006 and is expected to be finished by mid of 2009. This phase of the project will handle the transfer of all cadastral map sheets (paper maps) to digital format through digitizing along with all related parcel data (this will cover all areas that were not covered by pervious recent projects and still have paper maps).This will not solve the data inconsistency where the parcel data (area and dimensions) as resulted from the digitized map sheets will be different from that available in the Mutation Form; the approach presented in this research will solve this problem and would create consistent cadastre as explained in details in chapter IV. In the meantime, having the cadastral map sheets of the 5 million Feddan in a digital format as the output of this national project; the proposed approach in this research would be applied by utilizing the already digitized paper maps instead of starting from scratch. The required manpower, time frame, GIS hardware, software and cost for implementing such approach are estimated in case data created from the national project is used and without using such data. Comparing requirements in case of using data resulted from the National Project with that in case of starting from scratch, there was a lot of time saves as well as less hardware and GIS software requirements; i.e.less overall budget vi The research provides also a conceptual overview to create rural digital cadastral database (spatial and tabular) as a framework for LIS in Egypt; this conceptual view covers different rural areas in Egypt (whether having old cadastre or new cadastre or have no cadastre). The research provides an overview of technical, educational, economic and institutional issues of the design and implementation of LIS. Among the LIS technical issues; issues relevant to the establishment of a Geodetic Reference Framework (GRF) and the creation of the cadastral layer are focused in this research due to their fundamental role in the development of LIS. Institutional and educational issues are two major factors that should be taken into accounts so that LIS can be implemented successfully in the long term; otherwise the development of LIS will be more a dream than reality.In this research, the appropriate institutional arrangements to properly coordinate and manage a successful LIS implementation are discussed. Also, the need for a strong educational base to provide the academic foundation for LIS initiatives is highlighted. As for LIS economics, the implementation of LIS requires substantial expenditures of time and money, it is a large monetary investment and thus requires economic justification; the benefits and costs of LIS are analyzed within this research.The research discusses the approach and phases to be followed for implementing LIS in Egypt. Different committees, subcommittees and groups required for implementing the proposed LIS are established; duties of such recommended committees and groups are identified. The research also provides an overview of the different steps activities that provide general guidelines to LIS or GIS design and implementation.