GIS, Cadastre and Sustainable Development

Over last three decades theories on spatial information technology and sustainable development have created new visions in cadastre. Sure like any other discipline cadastral sciences need to be updated and achieve newer insight in order to remain relevant and retain its part in developing future. In this article we are going to explore all current factors and predict future elements in order to design a efficient cadastral system usable in high levels of management and land developing. Factors such as population growth, urbanization, governance, climate change, etc. One of the important components of any cadastral system is the cadastral map. But the existing systems consisting of paper maps and conventional land registers are becoming inefficient. For that reason, a Cadastral Information System (CIS), based on digital cadastral map in which attributes and map data on cadastral unit are stored in the same database, should be introduced. The CIS should be designed to support not only the cadastral mapping or the land surveying but also a variety of purposes such as identifying specific areas, determining limits of different status of land, sustainable development, social stability, land management and agricultural studies. consequently we will design six elements for future cadastre: surveyaccurate cadastres, object oriented cadastres, 3D/4D cadastres,real time cadastres, global cadastres and finally organic cadastres. Later in this paper we will overview the concept of land administration for sustainable development. The result is a practical treatise with a strong and universal theoretical foundation which explores the systems that administer the ways people relate to land. Key themes include the adoption of a toolbox of best practices for designing LAS with general, professional, specific for each country based on its national needs.