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    3D data sourcing for land and property information: a geometric and semantic perspective
    JAZAYERI, IDA ; RAJABIFARD, ABBAS ; Kalantari, Mohsen ( 2013)
    Population growth has prompted land administrators to re-evaluate the current land development cycle, incorporating the third dimension to enable a more complete and effective property registration system. This research, which centres on the 3D data sourcing methods, has suggested a set of data sourcing requirements. It is envisaged that the culmination of legal entities together with the geometric and semantic components of our cities in a 3D environment will enable a more complete and effective land and property information registration system that will in turn ultimately help decision-making processes in our governing bodies to better manage economic development and build sustainable communities. Focussing on two of these requirements (geometric and semantic) an investigation on data acquisition techniques is discussed. Implementation of UAV data is suggested as an effective data sourcing method, particularly for developing countries and poverty stricken areas, where low cost is critical.
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    Development of a 3D ePlan/LandXML visualisation system in Australia
    SHOJAEI, DAVOOD ; RAJABIFARD, ABBAS ; Kalantari, Mohsen ; Bishop, Ian D. ; AIEN, ALI (International Federation of Surveyors, 2012)
    The importance of managing properties and people’s interests in complex multi-level developments is increasing, due to population growth and shortage of land in urban areas. As a result, cadastral systems are under pressure to change the way they capture, register and visualise 3D data of these multi-level scenarios. However, interests in land and properties in Australia are registered and visualised through subdivision plans. This visualisation method is often paper-based and includes 2D floor plans, cross-sections and isometric diagrams. These drawings are used to represent 3D properties and associated rights. Although this has been a common practice for experts such as land registration officers and cadastral surveyors, non-expert users such as the public, lawyers and real-estate agents often find these methods difficult to understand and interpret particularly in complex high rise buildings. In order to visualise and represent properties and associated rights in 3D, a web-based prototype system was designed and developed utilising various technologies to enable a wide variety of users to explore 3D ownership rights. The prototype system’s architecture is based on a three-layer framework including, data access, process and presentation layers to represent cadastral data such as Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities (RRRs). For developing the prototype system, the subdivision plan components and the electronic surveying and subdivision plans (ePlan) were studied and analysed. In this web-based prototype system, 3D LandXML files are converted to KML data format using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) and are visualised in the Google Earth API. Furthermore, attribute information such as bearing and distance, attached to subdivision plans, is also represented in this system. Although this prototype system is not able to visualise underground RRRs, it has potential to represent interests in land and properties through the Internet. This paper concludes that ePlan data model is able to contain 3D volume objects to store 3D interests in land and properties.
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    Land and property information in 3D
    RAJABIFARD, ABBAS ; Kalantari, Mohsen ; WILLIAMSON, IAN (International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), 2012)
    People increasingly live in high density urban, often high rise and multi functional buildings. These increasingly urbanized populations will predominantly live in multi-level, multipurpose, highly engineered, high-rise developments. Cities require significant infrastructure above and below the ground. Rapidly expanding vertical cities and their populations will experience a range of new environmental, social and economic challenges. The lack of an efficient and effective three dimensional solution limits the ability of the public to visualize and communicate 3D developments, the ability of architects, engineers and developers to capitalize on the full potential of 3D title models; the ability of governments and developers to visualize multi-level developments resulting in increased costs and delays; and the ability of land registries to administer a title registration system that can accommodate these increasingly complex multi-level developments. This paper aims to introduce an approach which helps address the problem of modelling and managing complex 3D property rights, restrictions and responsibilities (RRR). The outcomes of this research incorporate the third dimension of height into the land subdivision and development process to build an infrastructure for managing and modelling spatial extension of these complex property RRRs. This research moves the multiple two dimensional drawings that now identify buildings and infrastructure objects and their separate parcels into authentic visual 3D representation of the building and objects that meet the exacting legal standards of ground surveys.
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    Aspects of 3D cadastre: a case study in Victoria
    AIEN, ALI ; RAJABIFARD, ABBAS ; Kalantari, Mohsen ; WILLIAMSON, IAN ( 2011)