The new 3D Cadastral System of the State of Israel

Project Name: The new 3D Cadastral System of the State of Israel
Client: Survey Office of Israel (Ministry of Construction and Housing)
Country: Israel

In 2018, the parliament of the state of Israel passed a new law for the registration of 3D parcels. The new law allows to expropriate 3D volumes (3D parcels) below or above the ground and register ownership rights on these volumes. Accordingly, the SOI (Survey Office of Israel) was vested with the responsibility to develop standards and technology which will allow to manage 3D cadastral processes.

In 2022 and following a tedious bidding process which included a proof-of-concept stage, the SOI awarded a contract to Sivan Design to develop the new 3D cadastral system of the state of Israel.

The purpose of the new system is to support the management of 3D Parcels boundaries and related information, and to manage 3D cadastral processes. The system includes a set of pre-defined data quality and topology checks and automation of the Cadastral database population process through systematic procedures. This database serves as a cadastral management system that controls the process of land division in Israel in 2D and in 3D.

The project included the following main stages –

  1. A preliminary stage to develop and update the existing standards for the preparation of Cadastral Plans to cover 3D processes.
  2. Design and implementation of the new 3D cadastral database including 3D Parcels, 3D Expropriations (Subtractions), 3D boundary points, 3D Cadastral Plans Boundaries etc.
  3. Design and development of a data testing and migration tool that converts 3D Cadastral Plans into GIS format and adds their data to the central GIS Cadastral database.
  4. Implementation of a Desktop and Web based 3D GIS environment which allows to display, navigate, query and manipulate the 3D Cadastral data.
  5. Design and development of the 3D Cadastral management system which allows users to administrate and process 3D land registration activities.

The responsibilities of the company covered the entire project lifecycle – specifications, design, development, installation, implementation and training.

The project development was done using Agile approach with Scrum sprints. The system is currently under maintenance and provision of RFC (request for changes) services.

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3D Cadastral Plan (Different Views)