SUMMARY Digital earth and e-government have significant impacts on the development of different land information systems in China in the recent decade. There was a tide of building up electronic land databases upon the traditional urban cadastral and land information management systems in wealthy cities. Most of these systems lack coordination, inter-operation, data sharing or exchange function...

In this paper, the possibilities of developing the national information infrastructure by applying the Land AdministrationDomainModel (LADM) are discussed. Confirmation of the legitimacy of using the LADM within the (Spatial) Information Infrastructure (SII) context is illustratedwith the case of Poland. Creating the information infrastructure is an immense challenge because its components are ...

Building rooftops represent one of the most valuable resources to harvest solar energy in cities. Nevertheless, this potential is limited by urban morphology impacting shading conditions. This study suggests a general methodology assess impact form on harvesting. To aim, new GIS-based approach developed extract meaningful morphological parameters at very large scale. The rooftop overall rate he...

3D city models are a useful tool to analyze the solar potential of neighborhoods and cities. These built from buildings footprints elevation measurements. Footprints widely available, but datasets remain expensive time-consuming acquire. Our hypothesis is that GIS cadastral data can be used build model automatically, so generating complete cities done in short time with already available data. ...

1. Land Evaluation 1.1. Soil Interpretations 1.2. Land Capability and Land Suitability 1.2.1. Development of the Land Capability Classification in USA 1.2.2. The Canada Land Inventory (CLI) A Modified Land Capability Classification 1.2.3. Land Capability Systems in Europe 1.3. Physical and Integral Land Evaluation 1.4. The International Framework for Land Evaluation 1.5. Quantitative Land Evalu...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Land use efficiency Land use productivity Land pricing Beijing China This paper analyzes how the newly introduced land pricing system affects urban land productivity in China, taking post-land-reform Beijing as an example. China has been developing its urban land market by building an effective pricing system. This study indicates that the effects of such pricing...