Geospatial Science for Smart Land Management: An Asian Context

Responsible land distribution in Asia, with ever-increasing limitations in space, requires the use of smart technologies, sophisticated models, intelligent algorithms, and big data repositories. This book presents new land management perspectives and fit-for-purpose, flexible, dynamic, and effective solutions for land management and land administration problems. Written by global experts from different Asian countries, including China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, etc., all these cases demonstrate how and why the uptake of geospatial technologies is booming and how to handle land scarcity and competing spatial interests in both urban and rural areas in Asia.

• Summarizes trends of geospatial technologies in Asia
• Describes and applies leading-edge geospatial models
• Explains fit-for-purpose digital land administration
• Provides case studies and examples that include the use of smart land management tools
• Helps readers advance their understanding of geospatial and land management science

Truly an interdisciplinary book, this text is a practical guide for an array of readers, such as practitioners in public and private companies involved in both geospatial and land management applications, as well as graduate students, researchers, academics, and professionals working in land administration, land management, spatial planning, real estate studies, geosciences, geoinformatics, and geodesy.

Walter Timo de Vries has served as Chair of Land Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2015. He is the Academic Program Director Geodesy and Geoinformation and Director of the master’s and PhD programs in land management and geospatial science. He has worked in numerous international projects in Asia, Africa, and South America dealing with land information and land reform, urban and rural development, geospatial data infrastructures, and professional training and education in land issues, cadastre, and spatial planning and development. His current research interests include smart and responsible land management, urban and rural development, and land consolidation. He has published several books with CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.

is a Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP), Semarang, Indonesia. His expertise is in rural planning and development, land management, and GIS modeling. Currently, he is teaching and supervising students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in urban and regional planning at UNDIP. He is actively involved in the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS) as an advanced researcher as well as the representative of Indonesia with its coordination base at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He is also the president of the Indonesian Planning Schools Association.

is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Geomatics, Sabaragamuwa University, Balangoda, Sri Lanka. He is also the founder and coordinator of the GeoTech-HIB, Faculty of Geomatics. His research interests include the development of LADM-based land information systems and 3D cadastre systems and ABSM techniques for urban planning land tenure security enhancement. He has published two books and is engaged in several local development projects related to land information systems and local SDI as well as 3D-cadastre database modeling.