Abstract
The Cadastral Modelling Future and the Land Surveyor's Role
Track: Surveying
Authors: Ian Harper
Industry must adapt to new technology to be successful and digital database technology together with cadastral modelling will challenge the future of land surveyors.
In the past surveyors were necessary to locate boundaries from survey plats. Digital databases and accurate measurement tools are more freely available and already there is a perception outside the profession that surveyors may not be required in the future.
Understanding the status and opportunities presented by cadastral modelling will be vital to the role of the land surveyor.
The ESRI Parcel Fabric is a survey based technology developed to model survey measurement data in a true database environment. The Fabric structure can provide the highest spatial outcomes from the all the old and new data available. As the Parcel Editor workflows follow an intuitive boundary definition process, achieving those highest spatial outcomes and efficiency benefits greatly from the input of a Land Surveyor.
The presentation will discuss how the digital environment can provide efficiencies in survey and land administration and how it is critical that the survey profession leads in the transition from measurement based systems of the past to the position based digital systems of the future.
The writer has been involved in modelling survey data in the ESRI Parcel Editor structure for government and infrastructure projects across Australia.