DataGrid's approach to support Land Administration in a turn-key offering

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Strategies and Technologies for Integrated Land Administration and Management of National Resources– the DataGrid Approach

Efficient and reliable Land Administration is increasingly becoming a global necessity. Desirability or need for improved reliability and efficiency is real in all countries in the world.

DataGrid proposes especially developed equipment, methods and procedures. We are committed to offering “turn-key” solutions adapted to local conditions and constraints. The result is improved efficiency of determining, recording and disseminating information about ownership, value and use of land. Our system can be tightly integrated with sensitization. DataGrid also suggests methods to manage or administer land data and the integration of land Information systems with broad national management for increased utility and better return on investment.

• In an environment where there are few professionally trained surveyors, it can be used by non professionals after only 2 days training, with supervision.
• It is not necessary for a professional surveyor to be in the field with the non-professionals, checking can be done in the office. This means that the few professional surveyors can cover more ground.
• Technical errors can be automatically eliminated by repetitive field observations done by non-professionals. This means that less time has to be spent on post processing by professionals and there are no return trips to the field and the whole exercise is far cheaper in terms of labour costs, but at the same time employing more people.
• As many professional surveyors in Sub Saharan Africa have not been trained in GPS, even normal post processing can be a problem. This equipment is set up in such a way as to simplify the post processing so that it can be done by most professional surveyors. This means that the professionals have to spend less time in post processing and that more professionals are capable of undertaking the management of these jobs.
• The equipment can be set up to prevent any tampering with boundary results after the survey, to limit opportunities for corrupt behaviour.
• It is not essential to place monuments or beacons often used by the courts as first evidence of rights and to be able to replace the evidence of boundaries later. The coordinates are sufficient evidence to be able to secure the boundaries at any future time. This saves costs and time on monumentation.