FIG Commission 7 - Cadastre and Land Management

 

"Renewing, Reimagining, and Recommitting for Relevance: Cadastral surveyors have long recognised the value of a global perspective on land administration – for building technical consensus, supporting advocacy and awareness, and advancing the domain. The 2023-26 period builds on this tradition."


What we do

For the term 2023-2026 FIG Commission 7 will be working on:

PDF: Work plan
VIDEO: Chair of the commission Rohan Bennett takes you through the work plan

Chair of FIG Commission 7: Rohan Bennett, Australia

Commission 7 on LinkedIn

 

Learn more about how Commission 7 is working with the SDGs

NEWS

EVENTS

8th Croatian Cadastre Congress 2026

13-15 May in Zagreb, Croatia

Organisers: Croatian Geodetic Society and FIG Commission 7

Conference website (English/Croatian)

FIG Congress 2026

24-29 May in Cape Town, South Africa

www.fig.net/fig2026

FIG & UNECE WPLA International Conference 2026

28-30 October in Istanbul, Turkey



figcadastre.hkmo.org.tr

FIG & UNECE WPLA International Conference 2026

28-30 October in Istanbul, Turkey

FIG & UNECE WPLA International Conference 2026 will bring together the international community working on geomatics, land administration, and cadastre. With contributions from: 

  • FIG Commission 2 - Professional Education
  • FIG Commission 7 - Cadastre and Land Management
  • FIG Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real Estate, and
  • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on Land Administration,

the conference will focus on land tenure, valuation, professional education and capacity development, AI, and digital transformation.

Submission deadlines and info on the conference website: figcadastre.hkmo.org.tr.

Join Commission 7 at 8th Croatian Cadastre Congress 2026

13-15 May 2026 in Zagreb, Croatia

The 8th Croatian Cadastre Congress on Cadastre's theme is "Cadastre – Support to Land Management". The organisers are FIG member The Croatian Geodetic Society in cooperation with the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) - Commission 7 'Cadastre and Land Management'.

Follow the preparations on the conference website (choose English or Croatian language). 

Commission 7 Newsletters

Quarter 4 2025 - Dec 2025
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Key Documents

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Meet the officers

Commission Chair

Dr. Rohan Bennett, Australia
Senior Geodetic Consultant
Contact: FIGCommission7@fig.net

Vice Chair of Administration

Kirsikka Riekkinen, Finland
kirsikka.riekkine@aalto.fi

Working Group Chairs:

Chair of Working Group 7.1
Amalia Velasco, Spain
amalia.velasco@catastro.hacienda.gob.es

Chair of Working Group 7.2
Israel Taiwo, Nigeria
taiwo_io@fedpolyado.edu.ng

Chair of Working Group 7.3
Peter van Oosterom, Netherlands
P.J.M.vanOosterom@tudelft.nl

Chair of Working Group 7.4
Mila Koeva, Bulgaria
m.n.koeva@utwente.nl

Chair of Working Group 7.5
Marisa Balas, Mozambique
marisa.balas@gmail.com

Chair of Working Group 7.6
Claudia Stöcker, Germany / Walter de Vries
claudia.stoecker@uni-muenster.de

Chair of Working Group 7.7
Simon Hull, South Africa
simon.hull@uct.ac.za

Chair of Working Group 7.8
Charl-Thom Bayer, Namibia
charl-thom.bayer@landportal.info

List of all officers

Delegates and Correspondents:

Each member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of the ten technical commissions. In addition Affiliates, Academic Members and Corporate Members  are welcome to nominate a correspondent to each commission.

Interested? If you are interested to become a national delegate from your country, please contact your member association. The contact information of national delegates is updates by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office.

Achievements
FIG Publication 80: Digital transformation and land administration
Starting from the digital disruptions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, this publication examines the state-of-play and future directions for digital transformation in land administration in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region and beyond.
Read the publication		 Many 3D Cadastral activities have been conducted during the past two decades: six FIG 3D Cadastres workshops, sessions at FIG working weeks and congresses, three special issues in international scientific journals, four terms of the joint commission 3 and commission 7 FIG Working Group on 3D Cadastres.
Website
Read the publication
 
This publication is the result of cooperation between the World Bank and the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) over recent years to address the issue of building and sustaining land administration systems that are basically fit-for-purpose rather than blindly complying with top-end technological solutions and rigid regulations for accuracy.
Read the publication		 The publication Cadastre 2014 and beyond projects the trends and developed visions of what cadastral systems might be in 20 years' time (published 1998). Cadastre 2014 has received worldwide attention and has been translated into 28 languages.
Read the publication
 
Cadastral Template 2.0 - a worldwide comparison af Cadastral Systems tool. The cadastral template is based on a raster of 17 data fields, which would need to be filled in according to its specific description. You can find that description in the questionnaire.
    
 

Working Groups

Term 2023-2026: Work plan

WG 7.1 - Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA)
WG 7.2 - Fit for Purpose Land Administration (FFPLA)
WG 7.3 - 3D and LADM (3D/LADM)
WG 7.4 - Artificial Intelligence 4 Land Administration (AI4LA)
WG 7.5 - Women’s Access to Land and S4HL
WG 7.6 - Integrated Land Management
WG 7.7 - Education in Land Administration
WG 7.8 - Comparative Land Administration

Previous terms

Term 2019-2022
Term 2015-2018
Term 2011-2014
Term 2007-2010
Term 2003-2006

 

Cadastral Template

Website

3D Cadastre

Website

 

FIG Publications

FIG pub. no. 80: Digital transformation and land administration

FIG Pub. no. 72: Best Practices 3D Cadastres

FIG Pub. no. 60: Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration

FIG Pub. no 61: Cadastre 2014 and Beyond

Pub.: Cadastre 2014 - a Vision for a Future Cadastral System

FIG Pub. no. 52: The Social Tenure Domain Model - A Pro-Poor Land Tool

FIG Proceedings

List of FIG Conference Proceedings
FIG Surveyors Reference Library

Events

All Commission 7 events

Reports to General Assembly

All Commission 7 reports