1 A record of the area, boundaries, location, value, and ownership of land, achieved by a cadastral survey.

2 The term is also used in geographic information systems (GIS). CARIS (Computer Aided Resource Information System) is a GIS system for hydrography (see Mioc, Anton, and Nickerson, no date, for a web-based GIS model for predicting flood events) and cadastral systems (see Steudler (2004) GIS@development for a worldwide comparison of cadastral systems).