1. REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: GEOSPATIAL DATA FOR LAND GOVERNANCE
Maria OVDII, Ph. D
Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of Moldova
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2. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Geospatial data for Good Governance
3. Spatial Data Infrastructure in Moldova
4. Policy and Strategy
E-Government Strategy
5. Accessibility & Technical Infrastructure
6. Socio-economic impact
7. Capacity development
8. Conclusions/Summary
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3. Introduction Total area – 33,7 thousand km² Capital – Chisinau
Population – 4,3 mln
Real Estate – 5.7 mln
Territorial division
32 regions
65 cities
1 548 localities
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4. √ ALRC is Founder of four State Enterprises:
√ The Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre: Public Government Authority carrying out execution, control and supervising the Land Administration, Geodesy, Mapping and Cadastre Systems in Moldova
√ Established in 1994
√ National contact point for the NSDI implementation, responsible for establishment, maintaining and management of the NSDI geoportal, monitoring and reporting of the spatial data infrastructure at all levels.
√ ALRC is Founder of four State Enterprises:
- S.E. "CADASTRU"
- S.E. Institute of Geodesy, Engineering Research and Cadastre "INGEOCAD “
- S.E. Project Institute for Land Management "IPOT"
- S.E. "Soil Protection and Land Development“
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5. World Bank cooperation 1998-2007
√ Implementation of First Cadastre Project in Moldova;
√ Establishing and operating of the unified property registration system;
√ Approximately four million real estate objects were registered during the first five years of the project.
√ About 75% of the properties are registered;
√ Development and implementation a property valuation system for taxation purposes.
√ Swedesurvey have provided technical assistance for the World Bank First Cadastre project in Moldova.
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6. Norwegian technical support 2006-2016
√ Orthophoto maps
√ Digital Terrain Model
√ CORS system (MoldPOS Net)
√ Laser Scanning of Flood Risk areas
√ Land Information System development in Cadastre MoldLIS;
√ Pilot testing of Drones (UAV/UAS) technology;
√ Vector base mapping for the NSDI and
√ NSDI National Geoportal (in development).
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7. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) support 2010-2012
√ Technical assistance Project for creation of
1: topographical maps for development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure of Moldova.
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8. European Union support for Land System in Moldova
: EU Twinning project for the Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre – “Organization, Streamling and Computerization Process in Mapping in the Republic of Moldova”. Twinning partner- SWEDESURVEY and State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia.
EU Twinning Project results:
√ NSDI Strategy and Law, created in line with the EU INSPIRE requirements;
√ Regional and Local level SDI demonstrations for Pilot region;
√ A demonstration of the network services showing the possibilities of data sharing
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9. Geographic coverage of Pilot area
European Commission/JRC cooperation
2016: EU Danube Reference Data and Service Infrastructure Pilot project "Data Harmonisation Pilot based on INSPIRE in Moldova" - example of cross-border data harmonisation between Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
Available data/INSPIRE themes
Administrative units
Hydrography
Transport networks
Land cover
Soils
Vegetation
Cadastre data
Population
Geographic coverage of Pilot area
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10. Geospatial Data for Land Governance
√ Benefits for citizens, authorities and public sector as regards the use of qualitative and accurate spatial data.
√ Development of National Infrastructure
√ Effective Government
√ Economic growth
√ Protection of resources
√ Enabled citizens
Benefits for the society:
√ A common understanding of location;
√ Better and safer decisions about selection of spatial data;
√ Increased cooperation and transparency in the use of spatial data;
√ More efficient use of resources for creation of other spatial data;
√ More efficient administration at lower costs for spatial data;
√ Driving force for technical development;
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11. NSDI in Moldova
√ There are 22 public institutions across 6 Ministries and 5 other Agencies/ Authorities and local authorities (most of them are involved in a demonstration of the EU Twinning pilot Project).
√ 37 datasets and 17 spatial data services are described through metadata on the National Geoportal gov.md/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search?node=srv#/metadata/ 6dec85e8-eb6a-4a c83f527bf7a5.
Coordination structure of NSDI in Moldova
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12. E-Government Strategy in Moldova
√ With the World Bank’s support the Government of Moldova launched its M-Cloud platform in
√ MCloud products which provide strong infrastructure support for the further development of eServices :
i) MPass (government authentication and access control service),
ii) MSign (government digital signature service), and
iii) MPay (government electronic payment gateway) .
√ The Open Data portal
√ 944 data sources and around 30 applications
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13. Fundamental/Reference Geospatial Data
√ Basic data is available in digital format. Orthoimagery and base maps are published on and
gov.md/
√ A lot of data is available in formats which are not suitable for digital dissemination, such as ungeoreferenced
scanned paper maps
√ Several thematic datasets are available via the Open Data portal
Cadastre
Land Cover
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14. Accessibility & Technical Infrastructure
√ The ALRC, with the support of Swedish and Croatian experts, has established a provisional geoportal based on an open-source solution ,,GeoNetwork”. It will be functional until a permanent geoportal will be created within the Norwegian technical support Project.
√ NSDI Geoportal includes the metadata catalogue, containing metadata created by the public entities.
√ NSDI Geoportal is a single point of access to geospatial data and nowadays it is at pilot stage .
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15. Accessibility & Technical Infrastructure
√ NSDI Geoportal makes it possible to view harmonised spatial data in a unique standard, which enables the interoperability of various datasets from different public entities, such as: dataset ,,Soils” of S.E. IPOT with datasets ,,Aerial orthophoto”, ,,Digital terrain model” and ,,Topographic map 1:50000” of S.E. INGEOCAD
Spatial data - interoperable via network services Soils, Aerial orthophoto and Topographic map 1:50000
√ Network services. These services are: discovery/search, view, download and transformation.
√ Most public entities do not have network services in Moldova. In the case of those authorities which had them, their services were not compliant with the ISO/TC211 standards.
Spatial data - interoperable via network services Soils,
Digital Terrain Model, Topographic map 1:50000.
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16. Socio-economic impact
√ Evaluation of the socio-economic impact of the NSDI usage in Moldova was not done yet.
√ There is no Business Plan elaborated.
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17. Capacity Development
√ The current national capacities of the responsible public authorities are not sufficient for establishment of the NSDI in Moldova.
√ The provision of adequate technical infrastructure and skilled staff with sufficient level of IT and GIS knowledge for public authorities on different levels is needed.
√ The INSPIRE implementation is limited because of a lack in harmonized of geospatial datasets.
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18. Conclusions
√ The development of the NSDI in Moldova achieved a significant progress in recent years, thanks to a significant financial and technical support of the Norwegian Government and Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Agency “Kartverket” (2006 to today), JICA and EU funds.
√ Data sharing is already established between several organisations (ALRC, Ministry of Transport, Forest Agency “Moldsilva, Emergency Service for Civil Protection etc).
√ The Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of Moldova/S.E. Cadastru/S.E. INGEOCAD/S.E. IPOT provide available fundamental datasets such as Orthoimagery, Administrative boundaries, Addresses, Cadastral Parcels, Elevation Data, Base Maps in different scales through web-based services, which are extensively used by other public entities.
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19. Conclusions √ Metadata catalogue is not completed;
√ There are no licensing conditions;
√ Coordination body for a NSDI it is under development;
√ Lack of human resources;
√ Lack of standards of spatial data;
√ Limited communication between private and government
sectors on spatial information;
√ Lack of experience in management and operation of web-
services, such as geo-portal;
√ The Business Model is not elaborated;
√ Limited understanding of the importance of geospatial data for
decision making;
√ Limited budget for development and maintenance of the
geospatial information.
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20. Thank you for your attention
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