ArcNews Esri | Summer 2018 | Vol. 40, No. 3 Esri Selected to Modernize Cyprus Cadastre Briefl y Creating One of the Most Advanced National Systems Noted Cyprus has a rich, centuries-long history of indi- Th e Department of Lands and Surveys is seen as vidual landownership—and now will get one of the one of the most important government divisions in most advanced and encompassing digital cadastral Cyprus because everything else depends on it, ac- Esri Launches systems of the modern age. cording to Constantinos Papantoniou, the techni- Africa GeoPortal In April, the Department of Lands and Surveys, cal consultant at Esri who is the technical lead on Organizations and citizens throughout Africa—from within the Ministry of Interior, signed an agree- the project. the African Union and ment with Esri to upgrade its current GIS, called “If citizens want to buy land, a house, or an national governments the Cyprus Integrated Land Information System apartment, they have to go to the lands and surveys to nongovernmental (CILIS). CILIS currently underpins all cadastre department to get the titles,” he said. “Other gov- organizations, businesses, and educators—now have access and land registration processes and procedures in ernment entities get data from the Department of to the Africa GeoPortal, a the Mediterranean island nation and will become Lands and Surveys as well, including the Ministry comprehensive cloud-based a government-wide system based on the ArcGIS of Defence, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of platform that provides users platform, covering the whole country. Interior, and the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs.” with ArcGIS Online and geographic data and imagery “Cyprus will become one of the leading places in At the signing ceremony, Minister of Interior related to the continent. This Europe to have an integrated land registry and taxa- Constantinos Petrides stated that the Department complimentary software-as- tion system based entirely on Esri technology,” said of Lands and Surveys is likely the largest provider of a-service technology is Mark Williams, a senior consultant at Esri and the property-related data in Cyprus and is certainly the offered to all who are addressing the most urgent project manager for this cadastral system upgrade. country’s primary provider of GIS data. According needs in Africa, including “At the end of the project, Cyprus will have one of the to him, that makes this upgrade all the more urgent. Cyprus has a long, rich history of cadastral economic development, more sophisticated cadastre systems in the world.” continued on page 3 record keeping. climate adaptation, conservation, and health care. Get more information at go.esri.com/Africa_geoportal. 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Dozens of technical sessions Before the tech presentations started, Esri presi- this multispectral imagery (DevSummit)—held in Palm Springs, California, in are geared toward what geospatial app developers dent Jack Dangermond praised the audience for by extracting it with ArcGIS March—is By Developers, for Developers. And Esri want and need to know about building apps using their app development work. Image Server and publishing “You are clearly the people that are making a an image service through ArcGIS Living Atlas of the huge diff erence in our fi eld and in your organiza- World, hosted on Amazon tions,” Dangermond said. Th is, in turn, makes the Web Services. Find out more world a better place. about harnessing the power “You are driving rationality in the way people think,” of Sentinel-2 imagery— part of Copernicus, the he continued. “[You’re] not just a collection of develop- world’s largest single earth ers. 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Esri Selected to Modernize Cyprus Cadastre continued from cover “Th e task and end result is the development of a highly solid absolute (notwithstanding any errors that the department had to product [that] will take us forward smoothly in order to cope with correct) and that all registration is based on cadastral plans that all the speedy, changing trends in both technology and…the highly are linked to the island-wide national grid. demanding property sector in Cyprus—a sector [that] is escalat- With a solid, standardized land registration and cadastral sys- ing successfully…after the recent economic crisis due to the hard tem that’s been in place now for more than 50 years, Cyprus is able work, the careful planning, and the setting up of new goals [ for] the to cope with the ebbs and fl ows of land-use practices throughout government,” he said. “Th is important sector needs to continuous- the island—and keep in step with a property sector that’s arguably ly be supported by fast and friendly, nonbureaucratic procedures; a becoming even more vibrant, complex, and international.