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Ras Al Khaimah Municipality

Project Goal

The Ras Al-Khaimah GIS Center team used a combination of software applications along with manual processes to carry out the work of recording and documenting the location and features of properties within the Emirate. Yet, the town’s processes for managing land records were not quite seamless with the challenges around the cadaster data management.

Teams in the planning and GIS departments, had to resolve complex challenges to ensure land records were accurate;
with this approach ArcGIS Parcel Fabric provides tools for creating and maintaining a registry of land records. The registry, called a parcel fabric, identifies properties by location using maps as shown here.

The registry lists details about each property, its owners, and land transactions such as sales and purchases where solution implementation enables five priorities as it established its new registry:
• Create and manage a unified parcel fabric
• Improve the accuracy of land records
• Document and standardize o
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Business Problem Solved

To improve the quality of land records, the GIS Center began modernizing using Esri’s ArcGIS Parcel Fabric solution. This technology allowed planners to create a registry, known as a parcel fabric, that forms the basis of the system for managing land records.
Ras Al-Khaimah’s GIS Center set five priorities as it established its new registry:
• Create and manage a unified parcel fabric with unique Parcel ID
• Improve the accuracy of land records
• Document and standardize operating procedures
• Transfer existing land and parcel data and records into the parcel fabric
• Train GIS Center staff to use and maintain the parcel fabric

The GIS Center used Esri’s ArcGIS Pro Advanced software to set up the system, which includes tools for tracking and managing parcel history. The system also includes automations for validating parcel data. Edits made to the parcel data become linked to a business record.

Technology Implemented

ArcGIS Enterprise software

Esri’s ArcGIS Parcel Fabric solution

Esri’s ArcGIS Pro Advanced software

Development Team Biography

Eng. Aaesha Saif Ahmed Al Shehhi

Engineer Aaesha Saif Ahmed Al Shehhi is the Director of GIS center and manages GIS center operations, Addressing and SDI program aiming to strategically implementing enterprise GIS for emirate of RAK.