15 LEGAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF MALAYSIAN 3D CADASTRE Muhammad Imzan Hassan Alias Abdul Rahman Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia. ABSTRACT Cadastre, being the core component of a land administration system, plays an important role in a modern economy is rapidly developing among people in the economic, land related fields or even to the layman. 2D cadastre mapping is being practiced in Malaysia and at the moment it provides vital land and property information like ownerships of the parcels for most parts of the country. However in very near future, this 2D information may not be able to serve more advanced situations for example in large cities. How do they deal with 3D situations, concerning legal as well as organisational aspects and can we learn from other countries? In Malaysia, JUPEM is responsible for preparing, producing and managing the spatial data including the surveying and mapping of the cadastre parcels. The non-spatial data (i.e. the registration) is being the responsibility of the Land Office (i.e. the “PTG”). Even though the intention of this research is not to develop a full-blown operational 3D cadastre system and it focuses mainly on the technical aspect of the cadastral system, the institutional aspect cannot be ignored. Perhaps this paper could generate interest and afford on doing research on the institutional aspect of Malaysian 3D cadastre. Primarily, relevant aspects have to be considered before brought t n and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia In