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:

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

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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

Conference website

FIG & UNECE WPLA International Conference 2026

28-30 October in Istanbul, Türkiye

Conference website

FIG & UNECE WPLA International Conference 2026

28-30 October in Istanbul, Türkiye

The conference will bring together the international community working on geomatics, land administration, and cadastre. Organised by:

Chamber of Geomatics Engineers of Türkiye
General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre
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.

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'.

Conference website (English/Croatian).

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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. Commission Delegates and correspondents 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