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Establishing Land Boundaries in the Middle East

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U A V T E C H N O L O G Y T O M A P L A R G E A R E A S F O R T H E P U R P O S E O F L A N D T I T L I N G by Wingtra round seventy percent of the world's property is unregistered, causing land St. Kitts and Nevis. The island measures around 168 km2 (65 mi2), and the team mapped 104 km2 (40 mi2) of it with WingtraOne in just 28 days / 65 hours of flight time— overcoming volcanic terrain and windy conditions. Survey firm Medici Land Governance uses WingtraOne technology to map large areas for the purpose of land titling. A A l a n d r e g i s t r y b a s e d o n h i g h - a c c u r a c y l o c a t i o n d a t a c a n h e l p p e o p l e m o v e o u t o f p o v e r t y a n d e n j o y a h i g h e r q u a l i t y o f l i v i n g . I N D U S T R Y About Author Wingtra Giesshübelstrasse 40 8045 Zurich Switzerland Website - https://wingtra.com/ WingtraOne take off St. Kitts insecurity and poverty. Creating a system to document and formalize land ownership is the only way to ensure that the land is developed sustainably into the future. Medici Land Governance works in partnership with governments at the national, state and city level to provide low-cost and innovative land- titling solutions that help people secure property rights. White and a team of three other specialists recently mapped the island of St. Kitts, which is one of two Caribbean islands making up the nation-state of the Federation of Drone Data, Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Protection Drone mapping instead of hiring costly airplane surveys is opening opportunities to make more high- accuracy maps of more of the world. In particular, WingtraOne's ability to capture large amounts of high- accuracy data in short periods of time across challenging terrain makes it a cost-effective tool in the push to document land rights. 1 0 G I S R E S O U R C E S | M A R C H 2 0 2 1

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