Land consolidation appraisal of agricultural land in the GIS environment

Abstract

Agricultural land is an important resource for the society, where many interest for land use meet. Preservation of the agricultural land and its improvement, different functions, spatial exposition as well as land plot structure are regulated by different laws. Unfavourable land plot structure is often considered as a problem for suitable management of agricultural land. An important approach to solving this problem is the land rearrangement tool called land consolidation. Agricultural land rearrangement within the land consolidation procedure includes agricultural land appraisal, which is the most delicate and the most demanding part of land consolidation works. The present paper provides an overview of a standard land appraisal methodology implemented in the land consolidation procedure in Serbia, with an additional overview of the possibility to use different geo-data sources and spatial data analyses for valuating agricultural land during the land consolidation process.

Keywords

• land consolidation
• agricultural land
• spatial analyses
• GIS
• Serbia