Analysis of literature on 3D cadastre

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to analyse the three-dimensional (3D) cadastre literature in terms of legal, institutional, and technical aspects. For this purpose, 441 publications published between 2001 and 2019 were examined. In the literature, which includes publications from 59 different countries the studies mostly focused on technical issues. An international consensus on legal, institutional, and technical aspects of a 3D cadastre solution seems difficult. Since rights, restrictions, and responsibilities with a 3D component are somehow registered administratively, stakeholders from the legal domain are reluctant to 3D cadastre. From a technical point of view, the technology required to use 3D digital data for registration has matured sufficiently in the past twenty years. However, further research on a real 3D cadastre solution, creating a workflow that considers both current legal and technical framework beyond pilot studies, is needed.

3D Property Research from a Legal Perspective Revisited

“…Perhaps, more nationally specific studies are being made, but presented only in national languages and thus not included in this study. The distribution of publications by the country of authors has not been subject for this study, since it is covered in one of the other literature studies [10].…”

“…We have identified two additional literature studies on 3D cadastre research, published in 2021 [10] and 2018 [11]-i.e., after the publication of the Paulsson and Paasch study. Their results are compared with the outcome of this study.…”

“…This study has focused on general trends regardless of geographical distribution of the 3D cadastre examples described in the literature. A geographical distribution of publications has already been provided in the one of the literature reviews mentioned above [10] and is therefore omitted from this study. A geographical oriented study on the distribution of the topics and sub-topics identified in this study may however be subject for future research, but does not fit into the scope of this paper.…”

“…Döner [10] presented a quantitative analysis of in total 434 publications from 2001 to 2019. The classification of subjects seems to be based on the Paulsson and Paasch classification, including the use of secondary subjects.…”

“…A large part of research on 3D real property has focused on more technical research, and less on legal and organizational issues, as noted also in the Paulsson and Paasch survey [4] and other literature surveys [10,11]. Implementation of new technical solutions requires an understanding of institutional matters, i.e., in what ways, according to what process, and by what financial means the solutions should be developed.…”