Brent A. Jones
Global Manager - Cadastre/Land Records
Esri
USA

Biography
Based in Washington D.C., Brent Jones oversees Esri’s worldwide strategic planning, business development, and marketing activities for land records, cadastral, surveying, and land administration. As a recognized technology innovator, Jones specializes in modernizing existing land administration systems and designing new GIS-based cadastral management platforms for small and large governments around the globe. Established in 1969, Esri creates systems that drive all components of land and cadastral administration, including addressing, registration, taxation/valuation, planning, and development.

Abstract
Smart Spatial Technology for Sustainable Cadastral Systems

There are new and exciting spatial technologies for cadastral and land tenure systems supporting rapid urbanization in countries in transition. One of the major challenges in the past was how to build systems that are both sustainable from a technology perspective and a human resource perspective. In the past, complex, custom developed software systems were developed, but after several years they became very difficult and expensive to staff and maintain. Now there is technology that enables new, smart ways to think about developing and sustaining cadastral systems. New, smart, sustainable technology supports developing and sharing cadastral data – the fundamental critical data layer to all urban functions – including planning, development, infrastructure management, and transportation. Leveraging accessible technologies in mobile phones, satellite imagery and the secure cloud, cities have access to capabilities to create, manage, analyze and share this critical spatial data. Technology is addressing many past challenges of system cost, intermittent internet connectivity, and distributed service centers. This presentation will discuss new and innovative spatial platform and app technologies for collecting information from crowd-sourced models to fully deployed cadastral systems, and how to design, build and maintain sustainable land systems to support the smart city of tomorrow.