SUMMARY

Countries in EU have been using Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) in order to administer agricultural subsidies since 1992. In time, IACS experienced some major changes indicating the usage of concrete spatial reference systems. In this context, Land Parcel Identification Systems (LPISs) emerged in order mainly to spatially represent the activities of farmers on their lands. LPIS requires the usage of orthophotos or orthoimagery as a basic guidance and sometimes uses cadastre coverage as an ancillary data source in demarcating agricultural parcels in conjunction with the declarations by farmers. These systems cover only agricultural areas. They mainly records agricultural land use information declared by farmers rather than land tenure information. The main reason for using such a system rather than using land records under land administration authorities is that land records were not readily available for the majority of countries. Another reason for that is the so-called complexity of both these land records and related administrations. The LPISs of this kind are regarded as easy to build, update and manage, and also low cost systems. In this study, the application of building standalone LPISs has been analyzed considering both the current situation and the future prospects. In this context, pros and cons of LPISs were revealed in view of land tenure and land administration. TS 1G – Cadastral Boundary Issue