The study of dependency between land-use coverage and parcel boundaries

Abstract

Land-use constitutes a part of the earth’s surface which is used in a specific, unitary manner. In Poland, data concerning land-uses are registered in the Real Estate Cadastre. This data plays an important role, inter alia, in the context of land properties taxation as well as performing statistical analyses in the field of spatial structure and land development form on various levels of administrative division of a country. Data on land-uses also form basis for activities aimed to agricultural and forest land protection. In this article, the study concerning identification of dependency between parcel boundaries and land-use coverage has been conducted. Occurrence of such a dependency is determined by the characteristics of Polish legal regulations and the fact of carrying out the Real Estate Cadastre in the form of informational system. On this basis it could be concluded that parcel boundary is one of determinants influencing the coverage shape of specific land use form. Using GIS tools, the assessment of size of this impact has been performed at the level of individual land properties as well as the whole cadastral districts. The spatial structure of land-uses in selected cadastral districts in southern Poland has been also compared. The results of analysis were presented both in graphical and analytical form.