Increased global demand for land posits the need for well-designed country-level land policies to protect long-held rights, facilitate land access and address any constraints that land policy may pose for broader growth.

Archaeological site mapping is important for both understanding the history and protecting the sites from excavation during developmental activities.

Remote sensing satellite data offer the unique possibility to map land use land cover transformations by providing spatially explicit information. However, detection of short-term processes and land use patterns of high spatial-temporal variability is a challenging task.

This paper presented at the 2016 World Bank Land conference explains the high importance of monitoring systems in delivering land administration programmes throughout the programme lifecycle.This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.