A two-year project to survey and model nearly 233,000 hectares of land — equivalent to the size of the Australian Capital Territory — to upgrade Queensland’s spatial cadastre, has been completed as a vital part of delivering the Inland Rail project. The spatial cadastre is used to accurately identify the location of the new rail line and to manage land use and ownership along the route. Working with the Queensland Department of Resources (DoR), Inland Rail has updated more than 7,699 land parcels including 601 easements covering a total of 232,811 hectares. The team conducted extensive ground-based surveys and used field data to develop detailed and accurate reference files to further enhance and update the accuracy of the spatial cadastre.
