INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON UNITED NATIONS

GLOBAL GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

“EFFECTIVE LAND ADMINISTRATION”
May 17-19, 2022
Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre,
Suntec City, Singapore

NAVIGATING TOWARDS AN
ACCESSIBLE, ACCURATE AND
QUALITY LAND INFORMATION

Atty. Emelyne V. Talabis

Director, DENR-Land Management Bureau
PHILIPPINES
 LAND PROFILE
OF THE PHILIPPINES
FOREST LANDS 67% Administratively Titled

14% Judicially Titled

47.79% Non agricultural
7%
52.21% 14,194,675 ha.
15,509,555 ha. Areas turned over to other
9%
agencies

3% Remaining untitled
A&D lands = 395,136
A & D LANDS has.

TOTAL LAND AREA = 29,704,230 hectares

 LAND INFORMATION
Land Information is a database containing spatially
referenced land-related data that is core to the
functioning of government sectors, making it an
automatic contributor to economic growth and poverty
eradication.
USES and APPLICATION OF LAND INFORMATION
1. Physical, economic and social infrastructure planning
2. Identification of land for allocation
3. Land conflict resolution
4. Land use planning and management
5. Strategic plans
6. Disaster management plans
7. Land or property taxation

Source: Ahene, Rexford, on Measures to Improve Access to Land Resources and Related Benefits in Uganda, World Bank
LAND TITLING SYSTEM
 LAND TITLING AGENCIES IN THE PHILIPPINES
AND THEIR MANDATES
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM
AND NATURAL RESOURCES (EO 129-A)
(EO 192)
responsible for conservation,
lead agency in the implementation of
management, development and proper
use of the country's environment and
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
natural resources. (CARP) and is mandated to improve land
It is also responsible in the survey, tenure through better access to and more
disposition and administration of public equitable distribution of land and its fruits
alienable and disposable (A&D) lands and to promote the welfare of program
and lands not placed under the beneficiaries through the coordinated
jurisdiction of other government delivery of support services.
agencies.
LAND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON (EO 292)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES an agency under the Department of Justice
(RA 8371) responsible for issuing decrees of registration
Responsible for the protection and certificates of title and registration of
and promotion of property rights documents, patents and other land
of the Indigenous Cultural transactions for the benefit of landowners,
Communities/Indigenous Peoples. agrarian-reform beneficiaries and the
 LAND DATA/INFORMATION MAINTAINED BY
LAND ADMINISTRATION AGENCIES
SERVICES DENR LRA/ROD DAR NCIP LGU BIR RESULTING
RECORDS
1. Classification LC maps
2. Survey and Mapping CAD maps,
Projection maps,
Survey plans
3. Original or first time Application
titling folders, etc
4. Original Registration OCTs, Tax
of Titles Declarations/
Tax Maps/Tax Rolls
5. Approval of Survey plans
subsequent survey
6. Land transfers and TCTs, plans,
Subsequent Registration tax payments
LAND RECORDS/INFORMATION GENERATED BY
DENR
✓ Cadastral Maps
✓ Projection Maps
✓ Land Classification
Maps
✓ Political Boundary
Maps
✓Thematic Maps
✓ Lot Data
Computation (LDCs)
✓ Isolated Survey
Plans
✓ Survey Documents
✓ PLA Documents
BEFORE
AFTER

AFTER
 Land
Sector
Development
Framework
2019
to
2040
 DENR Land Information System
(LAMS Philippines)

DENR Administrative Order Land Administration &

2010 – 18 dated June 23, 2010 Management System (LAMS) – is
an information system designed to
“Improving Management of Land provide effective management of
Information Through the land records and efficient delivery
Adoption of the Land of land transactions and information
Administration and Management services to the public.
System (LAMS) Philippines”
▪ Provides for automated
LAM Services
 LAMS Objectives
❑ Improve delivery of land related services
through automated land transactions
❑ Improve management of land records
information by promoting transparency,
accountability and integrity
❑ Improve access to integrated land
information for better analysis, planning and
decision making (spatially enabled
management)
Benefits of Land Information through LAMS
Philippines

▪ Provides a real
time monitoring of all
land transactions for
efficient and accurate
land-related information

▪ Reduce land conflicts/

disputes brought about by
erroneous, overlapping or
missing records
Benefits of Land Information through LAMS
Philippines
▪ Double titling are avoided

▪ Improved land records

management and maintain
up-to-date information
through linkage with other
land information systems of
other land administration
agencies

▪ Accurate land information

to LGUs to support their
land resource/ development
planning and tax mapping
 FEATURES OF LAMS Philippines

Inspection, Verification and Approval of Survey (IVAS)

LAMS IVAS is a system
designed to automate
and track the verification
and approval process of
land surveys at the
DENR Regional Offices.

It has special GIS

functionalities to
facilitate automated
checks which aid in the
automated verification
process.
 FEATURES OF LAMS Philippines
ONLINE PUBLIC LAND APPLICATIONS (PLAs)
LAMS PLA is a database
application with
customized transaction
tracking system tailored
for efficient monitoring of
Public Land Applications
in all PENROs and
CENROs
▪It serves as monitoring
system of all ongoing and
pending applications in
each PENROs and
CENROs
 FEATURES OF LAMS Philippines
E-survey Plan as medium to online digital submission of survey
returns (digital lodgment) and online access to land survey records and
information – DAO 2016-01.

It provides a standard digital land survey data (DLSD) exchange with

the LAMS Philippines and other information system

e-SurveyPlan

TEXT FILE
An XML LAMS
file (DLSD) Philippines
IVAS

GIS/CAD database stores up to this number of

characters. “Unlimited” means no maximum
length constraint for the
element value.

The paragraph that describes the data value

application Data Value Constraint

Max Occur
constraint for the element.
Maximum times a set of elements may be
repeated. The maximum
occurrence is 1, if not specified.

DATA Type Constraints

Each entry in the data type column of the tables will be one of these values

Data
Type Constraints
boolean Indicate a “true” value with either a “1” or the word “true.”
Indicate a “false” value with either a “0” or the word “false.”
A Boolean element may not have a null or blank value.
Must be of the format YYYY-MM-DD. A date element may not have a null or blank
date value.
Only valid characters are 0-9. Cannot contain commas, a minus sign, a dollar sign, or
integer
parentheses.
string Should be no longer than the prescribed length

Data Model and Relationships

The elements of the XML file are classified and grouped according to the
following table definitions.

• Header
• Survey
• ResultantLot
• ResultantLotDetail
• MotherLot
• MotherLotDetail
• Boundary
• BoundaryDetail
• AdjacentParcel
• Label

Every element or field is classified according to the Data Type, Optionality, Description and
Index information relating to other table in the dataset. Where tables are related, the fields
are referred by the FK (Foreign Key) of the related table to the PK (Primary Key) of the
main table.

As discussed above, a single DLSD file may contain multiple Survey and Parcel definitions.
Codes for Region, Province, Municipality, and Barangay follow the coding standard set by
the Philippine Standard Geographic Code http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/.
 FEATURES OF LAMS Philippines

Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB)

▪The DCDB is a database of land records
containing textual, scanned documents, maps,
and spatial data created and stored within
LAMS Philippines.
▪It provides the basic and authoritative layers
of cadastre information with all parcels and
political boundary information covering a
municipality, city, or any political unit.
▪It also covers and provides land transaction
information and the recording of any property
rights and information. The DCDB also
creates different thematic layers on land uses,
land tenure status, and other themes used for
better land management, planning and
decision making.
 FEATURES OF LAMS Philippines

SMS (text messaging)

system-generated message
informing the client of the status of
the survey plan and/or the public
land application (PLA)
 FEATURES OF LAMS Philippines
Online LAMS Monitoring
 FEATURES OF LAMS Philippines

Online Land Records

Services

LAMS Portal
 2031

Implementation of
10 Year Program (2022-2031) Paper-less Web-based
transactions
2022-2031

Completion of the
following: Development, Installation
- Data Capture and Implementation of E-
2021-2025 - DCDB LAMS (Phase 1,2,3 & 4)
- PLA and Survey Spatial DENR, LRA, DAR & LGU
Information Linkage
 SHARING AND LINKING OF DATA

With the completion of LAMS, other national agencies, local government units
(LGUs) as well as private individuals are likely to have a complete and easy
access to DENR cadastral maps and other survey information. This is expected
to make overall management of land surveys and titling activities more efficient
in the country.
 CHALLENGES
1. Connectivity within DENR and other land titling
agencies including LGUs to link and provide complete
and accurate information

2. Completing DCDB by linking land information of other

land administration agencies such as LRA, NCIP, DAR
and LGUs.

3. Change in mindset

4. Data privacy and protection and access protocols (user

data controls)