Possibilities of Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) implementation in Nigeria

Possibilities of Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) implementation in Nigeria

Babalola, S.O.
Rahman, A.A.
Choon, L.T.
Van Oosterom, P.J.M.

Architecture and The Built Environment

OTB

2015-10-28

LADM covers essential information associated components of land administration and management including those over water and elements above and below the surface of the earth. LADM standard provides an abstract conceptual model with three packages and one sub-package. LADM defined terminology for a land administration system that allows a shared explanation of different formal customary or informal tenures. The standard provides the basis for national and regional profiles and enables the combination of land management information from different sources in a coherent manner. Given this, this paper started with the description of land and land administration in Nigeria. The pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial era with organization structure was discussed. This discussion is important to present an understanding of the background of any improvement needed for the LADM implementation in Nigeria. The LADM, ISO 19152 and the packages of LADM was discussed, and the comparison of the different aspects of each package and classes were made with Nigerian land administration and the cadastral system. In the comparison made, it was discovered that the concept is similar to LADM packages in Nigerian land administration. Although, the terminology may not be the same in all cases. Having studied conceptualization and the application of LADM, as a model that has essential information associated with components of the land administration. Including those on the land, over water as well as elements above and below the surface of the earth and discovered that the standard is suitable for the country. The model can, therefore, be adopted into Nigerian land administration system by mapping in some of the concepts of LADM.

LADM
land administration
land reform
Land use Act
packages

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ISPRS

2194-9042

ISPRS Joint International Geoinformation Conference 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 28-30 October 2015; ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences II-2/W2

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