Land Intelligence and Geospatial Ecosystem Sustainability, Digital and AI Innovations, and Applications

1. Land Intelligence and Geospatial Ecosystem for Future Sustainability and Resilience: Setting the Scene

Abbas Rajabifard and Behnam Atazadeh

Part I: Foundations of Land Intelligence and Geospatial Ecosystem for Sustainability and Resilience

2. Accessing Land for Climate Resilience: Challenges and Solutions

Abbas Rajabifard

3. Digital-Twin-Enabled Land Administration and its Connections to Social Sustainability

Kirsikka Riekkinen and Abbas Rajabifard

4. Knowledge Integration in Geospatial Intelligence for Sustainability Science from the Lens of Citizen Science

Siqing Yu

5. Using the Power of Geospatial Intelligence to Build Trust for the Renewable Energy Transition

Alice Kesminas

6. Machine Learning and Comparative Spatial Analysis for Mapping Indigenous Land Ownership in Urban and Rural Australia

Atie Asadikia

7. Integrating Global Parameters to Extend Land Administration Domain Model

Fatemeh Jahani, Abbas Rajabifard, Behnam Atazadeh, and Daniel Steudler

8. Urban Analytics in Planning Practice: Future Trends in Spatial Digital Technologies for More Resilient, Sustainable, and Livable Cities

Mark Allan

9. Biodiversity Net Gain as a Pathway to Sustainable Urban Development

Salman Makhld M. Aldlbahi

10. Harnessing Land Information for Disaster Resilience and Recovery

Katie McDougall

Part II: Digital Innovations Towards Geospatial Ecosystem and Land Intelligence

11. Ethical Considerations in Modernizing Land Administration Systems

Serene Ho

12. Copyright in Digital Land Administration: Challenges and Opportunities in Survey Data Management

Armin Agha Karimi, Glenn Campbell, and Zahra Gharineiat

13. AI-Driven Transformations for Land Administration from Data to Decisions

Hamid Hosseini, Behnam Atazadeh, and Abbas Rajabifard

14. Land Intelligence: Innovations in Online Dispute Resolution for Land and Property Disputes

Fahimeh Abedi

15. Land Intelligence for Affordable Housing: An Integrated Optimization, Machine Learning and Policy Framework

Peyman Jafary, Davood Shojaei, Abbas Rajabifard, and Tuan Ngo

16. Ensuring 3D Spatial Data Consistency in Digital Cadasters

Ali Asghari

17. An Integrated 3D Data Model for Underground Land Administration

Bahram Saeidian

18. Evolution of AI in Urban Design

Yiqun Chen, Abbas Rajabifard, Mazdak Ghasemi Tootkaboni, and Victoria Oberin

19. BIM for 3D Digital Land Administration in Multi-Story Developments and Major Infrastructure Projects

Behnam Atazadeh, Lanxuan Shen, and Abbas Rajabifard

20. Advancements in 3D Cadastral Data Visualization

Davood Shojaei

21. 3D Cadastre Database Development Lifecycle and Data Migration

Javad Shahidinejad

22. Graph Databases for Integrating 3D Legal and Physical Dimensions of Underground Utilities

Ensiyeh Javaherian Pour, Behnam Atazadeh, Abbas Rajabifard, Soheil Sabri, and Masoud Kamali

Part III: Applications and Advanced Services

23. Energy Entitlement in Multi-Owned Buildings: Resolving Allocation Challenges Through Governance, Policy, and Technology

Aravind Poshnath

24. An Intelligent Framework for Developing Nationwide Building Footprint Data Product for Australia

Bipul Neupane, Jagannath Aryal, and Abbas Rajabifard

25. Adopting the Concept of National Security in the Domain of Land Administration

Kirsikka Riekkinen and Walter Timo de Vries

26. BIM Empowering Intelligent Demolition Waste Management to Alleviate Land Pressure

Dongchen Han

27. Smart City Governance Empowering Productivity of Digitalization: Practice in China

Zhixuan Yang

28. Bridging the Gap: From Planning Permits to Building Permits in Automated Systems

Nikoo Mirhosseini, Davood Shojaei, and Soheil Sabri

29. Technology-Driven Approaches to Bridge Asset Management Within Geospatial Frameworks

Maryam Nasim

30. Advancing Road Safety with Land Intelligence and Deep Learning Methods

Rozita Saki, Ara Toomanian, and Najmeh Neysani Samany

31. Digital Twin Governance for Urban Resilience and Sustainability

Mahsa Moghadas and Abbas Rajabifard

32. Key Applications of AI and Spatiotemporal Urban Traffic Data in Intelligent Transport Systems: An Overview

Iman Taheri Sarteshnizi

33. Future Directions: Land and Geospatial Information On-Demand

Abbas Rajabifard and Behnam Atazadeh

Biography

Prof. Abbas Rajabifard is an internationally recognized leader and scholar and a proud geospatial engineer and urban land and property management expert. He is Director of Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructure and Land Administration (CSDILA) and Leader of Geomatics Discipline in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Melbourne.  Prof Rajabifard is also a member of the United Nations International Advisory Committee for Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC) and is a member of the UN-Academic Network for Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). He has collaborated with many countries across the world, particularly in Asia-Pacific, Middel East, Europe, North America and Latin America regions. Prof Rajabifard has over 400 publications, including 14 books.

 Dr. Behnam Atazadeh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA) at the University of Melbourne. Serving as a research team leader in land administration, he specializes in various technical aspects, including modeling, validating, integrating, visualizing, querying, and analyzing land and geospatial data. He has contributed to the research and development projects on modernization of land administration systems in different jurisdictions including Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia.