1. EFFICIENT AND FAST PRODUCTION OF CADASTRAL MAPS IN ETHIOPIA
2016 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY
Thomas Dubois
Responsible and Innovative Land Administration (REILA) NIRAS Finland Oy

2. REILA and Land Administration in Ethiopia
5 years - a cooperation between the Finnish and Ethiopian governments.
Projects focusing on land registration in Ethiopia: REILA, SLMP, LIFT, LAND.
Cadastral mapping based on imagery and the QGIS open source software.

3. The regions of Ethiopia
50 million parcels, the vast majority are not mapped.

4. A rectangle grid is generated for the map production in the kebele.
Creation of field maps
A rectangle grid is generated for the map production in the kebele.

5. An example of an A3 sized field map

6. The field work

7. Scanning - Georeferencing
9 selected points are used for the referencing.
A reference grid in used for quality control.

8. Digitizing and quality control
Autotracing functions speed up the digitizing.
Topology checking finds overlaps, gaps and invalid geometries.
The attribute table is checked by sorting columns and functions for detecting duplicate parcel IDs.

9. Public display for transparency and error detection

10. The parcel map

11. Thank you! Future improvements
New National Rural Land Administration system under development.
Awaiting improved accuracy for Handheld GPS in Ethiopia.
Awaiting improved global terrain models for satellite imagery corrections.
Thank you!