Hellenic cadastre: state of the art experience, proposals and future strategies

In 1994, the Hellenic government, with the support of the European Union, started a project for the establishment of the Hellenic Cadastre (HC), which will be a title registration information system in fully digital form. It is estimated, that this project will last 20 years and it will cover the whole country. So far, digital photogrammetric Cadastral Surveys (CSs), named Pilot Phase and Main Program, of a total area of 893,000 ha have been commissioned and executed in various areas of Greece; 250,000 ha more were commissioned within the year 2000. Through this work, a surprisingly high level of cooperation between the private and public sector has been achieved. This paper focuses on the research and the progress that has been made in all scientific fields, such as the definition of the content of this project, the implementation of the responsible institutions/agencies for the HC, their administrative structure, the proposed regional structure, the development of the National Legal Framework for the compilation of the CSs, the adjudication procedure and maintenance issues. An emphasis is given to the experience so far gained in the legal and technical aspects, and especially to the proposals for an improvement of the methods, and to the attempt to create a cost recovery business culture for maximizing the products and services, which can be supported by the HC. This project requires major international and local experience and a high level of research in all the above mentioned issues, which has to be applied successfully.