FBSIC is supported by a scalable architecture, standards-based information technology and communication, interoperability,ensuring a high sustainability of long-term application. Allows viewing, editing, analysis and reporting of geographic, alphanumeric,and documental information of land property. The benefits are evident at the level of operational efciency, with the inclusion of tools to enable process integration and standardization of procedures. Facilitate analysis and quality control and maximize performance in the acquisition, maintenance and management of registration information and land property, including legal issues. The implemented system achieves levels of robustness, comprehensiveness, openness, scalability and reliability suitable for a structural platform.

1. Cadastre Information System
(FBSIC)
Mata, Luís
Gil, Fernando
Ferbritas, S.A.
Lisbon, Portugal
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2. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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3. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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4. Who are we?
Main Shareholder:
REFER E.P.E.
Portuguese Railway Infrastructure Manager
Ferbritas S.A.
The engineering company of REFER E.P.E.
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5. Railway specific approach
Transportation Construction
Planning and
Research and Detailed Land Management
Development Design
Operation Acquisition and Supervision
Transportation Infrastructure
Planning and Studies and
End to end railway infrastructure planning Operation Detailed Design
requires:
Construction
Management
• Specific methodologies and multidisciplinary Quality
and Supervision
Control Project
and rigorous approaches; of Management
Materials
• Integrated management.
GIS Cadastre
Cartography
Topography Land Acquisition
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6. Why cadastre as no secrets to us
Since 1989 we execute:
- Cadastre surveying;
- Land acquisition for construction, including the execution and management of
expropriation processes.
Experience:
- Our teams perform this activities daily for the last two decades;
- We do know the daily difficulties on the field and at the office;
- We know the needs of our customers;
- We were required to redesign business processes and promote effectiveness and
productivity, related with cadastral information;
- We implemented several information system projects (ERP, DMS, GIS, BPM).
That’s why we decided to start from de very beginning, by doing the design,
the development and put into service an application based in GIS technology:
the Cadastre Information System.
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7. The importance of cadastre
Cadastre definition:
… official register of the quantity, value, and ownership of real estate used as a basis of
taxation … recording property boundaries, subdivision lines, buildings and related
details …
Cadastre is related to:
- Social-economic and taxation justice;
- Citizenship;
- Entrepreneurship;
- Business opportunities;
- Local, Regional and National Public Administration;
- National Policies.
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8. Cadastre and GIS: it´s all about …
Integration No Integration
vs
Efficiency Waste of resources
Effectiveness Absence of knowledge
Results Missed opportunities
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9. GIS – our awareness
1. The control and management of urban and rural property, or real estate, and the use
of land, including the planning stage and monitoring, is a permanent process that
generates a colossal amount of related and diverse information.
2. All this valuable and different information is produced, processed (or not) and filed
(or not) during many years by generations of people across multiple organizations
(and reorganizations).
3. Information for itself it’s not equivalent to knowledge.
4. Both are indispensable and represent significant value, to the citizen, to the
entrepreneur, to Public Administration and to private business management.
Conclusion: Using a Corporate Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to
integrate information is one of our key strategic options.
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10. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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11. Why a Cadastre Information System?
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12. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Cadastre Control
Private
Business Public and
Strategic and
Management Private
Operational
Investment
Planning and
(Cost/Benefit)
Monitoring
Public
Taxation
Administration
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13. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Feasibility Studies
Preliminary Studies
Physical
Demarcation of
Environmental Property
Studies Construction
management and As-Built
Environmental supervision Drawings
Statement
Detailed Design
Availability of
Process of acquisition (negotiation, legal and tax
site for
issues, etc.)
construction
Environmental
Licensing Process
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14. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Business opportunities and responsibilities
Decision making
Accurate Business Effectiveness
Information Process
Knowledge Efficiency
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15. Why a Cadastre Information System?
Conclusions:
- Accurate cadastre information is a significant input to other key activities of Society and it is
related to social-economic and taxation Justice;
- It is essential to the citizen, the entrepreneur and the Public Administration ;
- Property means value to everybody, individually and official entities,
Integration
… if we know, depending on the point of view :
• what do we have;
• where it is;
• which rights and responsibilities;
• what is essential and what is dispensable;
• what is the potential profitability;
Results
• what are the opportunities and what we want to do with it.
- It’s not only a matter of gathering and maintain accurate information. The purpose is to deliver
knowledge to promote efficiency, effectiveness, social fairness and investment;
- It‘s worth it: it’s added value!
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16. FBSIC - General Objectives
 View, query and edit of geographic and alphanumeric information of land parcels;
 Quality control of cadastre and real estate;
 Traceability of the processes;
 Map printing and creation of formal documents;
 Final approval by the customer (internal or external);
 Scalable solution;
 Supported by standards for information technology and communication, and
interoperability;
 Long-term sustainability to the project.
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17. FBSIC - System Components
 Database …………………… (Alphanumeric / GIS): MS SQL Server 2008
 File Server …………………. Pictures, CAD files, Pdf...
 GIS Services .................. ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Image Server
 Desktop GIS ………………. ArcGIS / ArcInfo and its extensions
 Web Application ………. Taylor made solution: user interfaces, alpha/geo
editing, extended image support, automatic
document generation, linked with document
management
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18. One solution, seven modules
1. Field ……………………………….… collection of information at the field
2. Data Migration ………………… geographic and alphanumeric data
3. Information Processing …... validation for integration of collected data
4. BackOffice ………………….……. supporting system administration
5. Central …………………………….. view/edit geo/alpha information, quality
control, generation and printing of documents, …
6. Approval ……………………….…. enabling interaction and approval by the client
7. Domain Management …….. enabling an enterprise management of private
and public domain property
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19. FBSIC - Conceptual Architecture
Field On permises / Web Web
Document
Management
Cartography push and get Areas Map
Cadastre Plan
Parcel Plans
Field
Central
Module
Module
(alfa)
Registration
Backoffice Forms
Approval
Module
Information
.mdb Processing Database
Database
Module (SQL Server)
Domain
BAGEX .mdb Module
Sync
.mdb
Data
Entities,
Types,
Migration Geo DB
Districts, Module
Counties,
Parishes,
...
Alfa DB
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20. One solution, seven modules
1. Field ……………………………….… collection of information at the field
2. Data Migration ………………… geographic and alphanumeric data
3. Information Processing …... validation for integration of collected data
4. BackOffice ………………….……. supporting system administration
5. Central …………………………….. view/edit geo/alpha information, quality
control, generation and printing of documents, …
6. Approval ……………………….…. enabling interaction and approval by the client
7. Domain Management …….. enabling an enterprise management of private
and public domain property
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21. 1.Field (operation cycle)
1 Obtaining the information (at office) 2 Data Collection (Field)
The user of the Field module: The user of the Field module:
 Connects to the LAN  Login in the application
 Login in the application  Selection of work area
 Selection and download of the work area intended  Start field operation (insert and update data) ...
 Verification of the data ...  ... Validate the quality of data collected
User
User (Field)
(at Office)
User 3 Submiting the information (at office)
(at Office)
The user of the Field module:
 Connects to the LAN
 Login in the application
 Selection and upload of the data collected
 Verification and submission of the data ...
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22. 1.Field (cont.)
 User Authentication;
 Access restrictions on a user base;
 Secured access via intranet to download and upload data;
 Data insert, edit and query:
- cadastral parcels, land parcels, entities, tax and property registers;
 Address validation according to postal format;
 Data validation (format and completeness) for cadastral parcels;
 Warnings and Errors Log for performance quality metrics;
 Data validation before submission to the central database;
 Autonomy of operation in offline mode.
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23. 1.Field (cont.)
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24. 2.Data Migration
Composed of four toolbars (ArcGIS/ArcEditor):
 Import of CAD data;
 Creating new layers;
 Validation of the topology;
 Validation of attributes;
 Table mapping layers;
 Automatic creation of polygons from lines;
 Association of annotations to features;
 Controlled upload to the central database;
 User and date / time log for each record.
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25. 2.Data Migration (cont.)
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26. 3. Information Processing
 User Authentication;
 Secured access via intranet to download and upload data;
 Validation and acceptance of data:
- Cadastral parcels;
- Entities;
- Tax and property registers;
- Land parcels.
 Recording of the work session (save my work);
 Submission to the central database.
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27. 3. Information Processing (cont.)
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28. 4. BackOffice
 User authentication;
 Data access restrictions for profile / user;
 Users definition;
 User profile definition;
 Definition of functionality by profile;
 Association of users to a profile;
 Access restriction by application;
 Access restriction by project and phase (in Field Module);
 Integration with Active Directory;
 Creation, copying and maintenance of projects.
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29. 4. BackOffice (cont.)
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30. 5. Central
 User Authentication;
 Data access restrictions for profile / user;
 Data insert, edit and query of:
- cadastral parcels, land parcels, entities, tax and property registers;
 Address validation according Postal format;
 Integration of geographic and alphanumeric information, imagery and
documents;
 Workflow control of the project phases;
 Query and generation of snapshots.
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31. 5. Central (cont.)
 Documents generation:
- Temporary Cadastral Report (.pdf)
- Cadastral Parcel Report (.pdf)
- Land Parcel Report (.xls)
- Easy Print (.pdf)
- Cadastral Parcels Plant (.pdf)
- Land Parcels Plant (.pdf)
- Land Parcels Extract (.pdf)
 Integration with the Document Management System:
- Property Registry Documents;
- Finance Documents.
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32. 5. Central (cont.)
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33. 6. Approval
 User Authentication;
 Data access restrictions for profile, user, phase and project;
 Project navigation;
 Cadastral and Land parcels information analysis (geographic and alphanumeric);
 Insertion of annotations and corrections to the data in analysis;
 Visualization of information to support analysis (criteria);
 Integration with vector information of the Engineering Project;
 Availability of measurement tools;
 Availability of search tools (query builder) ;
 History log of analysis and validation acts (what, who and when);
 Search by analysis state.
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34. 6. Approval (life cycle)
Analyzing
n iterations
Analyzed
Analyzing Solving
Creation Change Approving
New Observation or Correction
Solving
Identification of
doubt or Created Solved Approved
inaccuracy ...
Change Rejecting Change Reproving
Cancel Change
Reviewing
Canceled Rejected Reproved
Change
n iterations
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35. 6. Approval (cont.)
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36. 7. Domain
 Access to data with user restrictions;
 Queries for Projects, Land parcels, Railroad Lines, Railroad Segments and KPs;
 Integration between of geographic and alphanumeric cadastre information;
 Visualization of context geographic information (orthophotos, military and street
maps);
 Control of the Land parcels process state;
 Automatic update of the Public Domain after acquisition of the Land parcel;
 View the history of parcel states;
 Generation of official documentation (Cadastral Parcel and Land Parcel Report,
Cadastral Parcels and Land Parcels Plants, Land Parcels Extracts);
 Integration with the Document Management System;
 Export of alphanumeric data, graphics and documents.
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37. 7.Domain (cont.)
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38. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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39. FBSIC – Central Module
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40. Agenda
1. FERBRITAS, S.A.
2. The FBSIC Project
3. Presentation of the SIC Web Application
4. Conclusions
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41. FBSIC – Accuracy and Efficiency
Data Integrity:
• Centralization of information;
• Validation of data quality (amount and form);
• Log into a relational database.
Data availability:
• Speed of access;
• Secure access to profile, functionality and design;
• Possibility of integration with other systems.
Usability of the data:
• Geographical and alphanumeric display;
• Generation of documentation;
• Analysis of efficiency indicators of the operational process.
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42. FBSIC – Integration
The integrating nature of FBSIC allows:
• to accomplish present needs and scale to meet future services;
• to collect, maintain, manage and share all information in one common
platform, and transform it into knowledge;
• to relate with other platforms;
• to increase accuracy and productivity of business processes related with
property management.
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43. Our experience
• Cadastre is related with social economic and taxation
justice.
• Cadastre Control (CC) is important to the citizen, the
entrepreneur, the Public Administration and to private
business.
• It takes sometime to have a full and accurate data
base. But if the right priorities are taken, then results
appear earlier and evolves in an exponential trend.
• CC increases efficiency, effectiveness and cost/benefit
optimization, related to key activities of Society and
public and private organizations: planning, use of land,
engineering, maintenance, lease, facilities, liability,
taxation, investment control …
• It’s worth it!
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44. Thank you for your time and interest!
‫شكرا‬
Obrigado!
Ferbritas, S.A. Luis Mata Fernando Gil
CEO GIO – Head of GIS
Rua José da Costa Pedreira, 11
1750-130 Lisboa, Portugal mata@ferbritas.pt fgil@ferbritas.pt
Tel: +351 217 511 700
Fax: +351 210 118 080
Web: www.ferbritas.pt
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