GIS-Supported land consolidation planning information system: ARTOP

Agriculture plays an essential role in restructuring and country planning. However, the agricultural world is under economic pressures that affect the efficiency of landowners. To ensure good productivity, the farmer needs his land to be spatially well organised and well equipped. To use the agricultural land most efficiently, it is important first to understand the area by collecting together all the available information. These types of data are continuously increasing, making their management and manipulation increasingly difficult, but the recent development of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology renders the task easier and can make a significant contribution to the improvement and management of agricultural land (SEMLALI, 2001). Land consolidation is a highly complex spatial planning process because it involves many tasks, actors (landowners,