Marine Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructures in Marine Environment

A Cadastre is normally the basis or core of a land administration system and is defined as a parcel based and up-to-date information system containing a record of interests in land (e.g. rights, restrictions and responsibilities). It usually includes a geometric description of land parcels linked to other records describing the nature of the interest, and ownership or control of those interest, and often the value of the parcel and its improvements (FIG, 1995). But in the marine environment, the terminology of cadastre is still unclear because there are some problems like discontinuity between land and marine cadastre, standard, technical and legal institutional aspects. A structured administration of land and marine interface area, or coastal zone, is rarely founded. United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as an international regulation, then national and states legislations regulate marine related activities. The objective of the paper is to understand and identify rights, restrictions and responsibilities in the marine environment. It also identifies the problems and needs from various users from marine stakeholders and to discuss the concept of marine cadastre. A particular focus of the research is a review of the administrational interests at the land marine interface. A pilot project will be researched and analysed by integrating its dataset to allow its stakeholders to access the dynamic information. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) in the marine environment will be examined by evaluating the current initiatives and policies