Develop necessary geospatial skills for effective Land Administration and Management
Land is an essential resource that supports nearly every aspect of our social and economic well-being. As a finite resource, it is necessary to govern and manage land effectively for social stability, sustainable economic development, and equitable taxation. GIS technology helps in managing all aspects of land information and land records including land tenure, value, management, and use. With all land information in a GIS-based comprehensive land administration system, governments are able to improve land information management, property valuation and analysis, and communication with the public. Almost 80% of any development activity takes place on land resource. The information regarding location, condition and type of interest people have over land is needed for proper planning, sound policy formulation and timely and equitable services delivery to citizens. Land Information is prime requisite for making decisions related to land investment, development and management. Often, information reduces uncertainty by helping to identify and analyse problems. Strategies to overcome them may then be prepared and implemented. The value of the information and the effectiveness of the decision making process are directly related to the quality of the information and the manner in which it is made available. Land records are very important because these form the basis for assignment and settlement of land titles, these must stand against legal scrutiny. It helps to create more reliable and all-embracing tool for decision making about land. The three necessary systems in land administration are the system of record (land parcels), the system of insight (valuation), and the system of engagement (stakeholder and public engagement). GIS efficiently delivers all three on a single platform. Having these systems on a single platform allows governments to accurately represent and understand property value as well as provide secure and authoritative land records and parcel data for widespread government and public use. Maintaining public trust and confidence is paramount; how this is accomplished has changed and continues to evolve. In the past, sharing data and property information internally and with the public involved property cards, folios, and paper maps. Today, citizens, taxpayers, and the public expect property information to be easy to find, quick to understand, and available on any device. GIS allows you to share property information with web maps, apps, open data, hubs, and services. Additionally, sharing your authoritative data internally with services allows systems to connect to each other eliminating duplicate data and duplicated work.
Role of GIS in Land Administration, Mapping the suitable locations of planned economic or development activities; Identifying the trend in the land use and valuation; Analysing and visualizing spatial changing patterns and trends; Modelling spatial change of development activities. Overview of systems for acquiring, processing, storing, and distributing information about land; Concepts and technologies that support secure land tenure, land valuation, land use planning and land development; Cadastral Data Acquisition Technologies. Short presentations on geospatial background topics are followed by targeted hands-on exercises which introduce participants to GIS software interfaces, spatial data types, spatial data formats, map templates, map symbology, and map layouts; and later include the manipulation of data layers, map symbology, rudimentary spatial analysis, data creation, and editing, making queries. Introduction to data capture with GPS and integration with GIS. Participants will use GIS software and existing spatial data to create maps. The course will also include the creation of a final mapping project using data used and/or created during the training.
On completion of this training, the participants are expected to:
•Apply land administration and Land Information System concepts and broadly explain the social, economic and environmental importance of land and land information systems in the society
•Describe a land administration process and its subsystems as well as get acquainted with the components of the cadastre/LIS; • Classify technical and non-technical options for designing and managing land information infrastructures; • Design and develop land administration and information systems for specific contexts; • Display, manipulate, create and organize data layers in a GIS environment. • Participants will have a greater clarity of basic spatial data concepts and data types • Learn about the kind of questions that are answered through spatial analysis and where to obtain free spatial data. • Start analysing spatial data for your own projects • Carry out practical spatial data analysis tasks • Show off your skills & gain experience by working on a real life conservation related spatial data analysis project • Use GIS to answer specific spatial questions.• Staff of Plateau State Ministry of Land Survey and Town Planning
• Land Administrators; • Land & Property Managers; • Urban/Spatial Planners; • People working in land sector; • GIS Mapping Experts etc.• An interest in working with spatial data.
• Basic computer knowledge is recommended but no prior knowledge of GIS is required.• On-site instructor-led training;
• Use of PowerPoint Slides; • Use of Case Study Videos; • Data Collection using phones, GPS etc.•ArcGIS & Q-GIS
• Handheld GPS; • Smartphones • Google Earth. • FTP client software (examples: FileZilla, WinSCP) • Internet serviceTo be discussed
State or LGAs.