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On the of planimetric methods in cadastre, constituting and reconstituting

ownership rights over agricultural plots in Bara Village, Timis Country,
Romania

Luminita Livia Bârliba, Costel Bârliba

Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Timişoara, România

Introduction

Romania’s rural development represents a synthesis of the research conducted in this domain, an
attempt to solve the complex problem of sustainable development policies for the benefit of people, for the
betterment of their life conditions, and in the end for an increase of the attraction felt by young people towards
any job connected to life in the countryside.
Getting to know, researching, improving and developing the countryside are complex activities, vital
for any country, both by the dimensioning of the rural area, expressed by the size of the plots owned, and by the
percent of the population engaged in productive activities, social-cultural services, habitat and tourism. The
European Chart of the rural space appreciates that Europe’s rural territory represents 85% of its total surface, and
that it affects, whether directly or indirectly, more than half of the European population. In many European
countries, they assert that the rural, with everything that is attached to this concept: population, villages, culture,
traditions, history, social and economic life, landscape etc, constitute the visit card of the country, its national
identity.
For Romania, the rural area is of special importance, both in regard to its size and structure and
function. First of all, the size of the Romanian rural area measured by its weight in the total surface of the
country and by the numbers of the rural population represents an essential element in defining the role of this
land in the national territory. The Romanian rural space encompasses 93.7% of Romania’s surface, and almost
half the Romanian population live in this space (45%).
Given this context, we have studies and present in this paper the influence of topography and its
application in the cadastral field, bringing in this way a modest contribution to the general effort of specialists
regarding the increase in the productivity of cadastral works.
The paper is based on the results of the leveling survey of a plot, and non-final registering into the land
register of a plot. These were done by plotting works performed in Bara village, Timis County. For the
realization of this project, very elaborate hard and soft structures were needed. That is why these problems were
best shown by using soft like AutoCAD 2004, TOPOSYS 4.0, MapSys variant 5, AUTODESK MAP 2004.

Methods

For the planimetric survey of a plot, the following operations are needed:
a) Documenting operations and drafting the plan for the planimetric survey
When thinking of the work project, one must first of all study an old plan or map, then one must draw
the map sketch at a chosen scale. On that map or plan, one must draw the contour of the surface, the supporting
points and the planimetric points. After doing that, one must go on to identifying the supporting points in the
field, plot boundaries and all the points which are characteristic for the details. At the end, a scaled map is
drawn, with all the elements identified in the field.
b) Field operations
These operations are realized by actually going in the field, where the points are marked and signaled;
after that, the measuring operations take place. These consist of measuring the distances and angles with the help
of topographic instruments. If it is established on the field that the adopted solution is not the best, then the most
efficient solution is adopted on the spot, in such a way that the best efficiency is achieved.

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c) Office operations
1. Calculus operations – These consist in processing the data obtained in the field, with the help of
electronic computers and the appropriate programs.
2. Mapping operations – After finding the absolute coordinates of the points, these are reported on a
plan at a chosen scale, and after that, the points are united by a line, according to the data in field, thus obtaining
the lay-out plan. This is the result of the planimetric levelling.

Results of research

Besides the points already presented regarding planimetry, the practical side of the paper is represented
by planimetric works done in order to identify and plot a 21 ha area situated on the territory of Bara village,
Timis county. The plot is situated to the north-east of Bara, 600 m away from the communal limit. To its north
and east, it is limited by pasture and trees and to its west and south by two roads which lead to villages Bucina
and Manastur respectively. These roads are considered to be agricultural access roads, being covered in stone
and sand. The terrain on which the plot is situated is extended 250 m on the north-south axis, and 500 m on the
east-west axis. As from the point of view of the altitude the land is horizontal, no leveling survey was needed.
The aim of the work is to perform the land survey and plotting for applying Law 18 for the benefit of
the community, in view of non-final registering of that plot of land in the cadastral register, by reconstituting the
ownership right and drawing a plot plan. The topographic measurements were performed with the help of a total
Leica TCR 75 station. The work was done in the Stereographic 70 system. For the plots of land which constitute
the object of this documentation we have determined Stereo 1970 coordinates, using as technical procedure the
back intersection on station point 100, a closed tachometric traverse starting from station 100 with closure on the
station point 100 and raying for every corner of the plot (Picture 1).

Picture 1. Way of determining the coordinates and plotting

Discussions

Data processing was done by exporting coordinates, measurements and data using Toposys. The
graphical report of the measured area was obtained with the help of AUTODESK MAP 2004 by uniting the
points according to the field map. The results were obtained using MapSys 5 – construction and plotting
function. The following documents were made: the support network map, location map – scale 1:5000;
identification and plotting lay-out plan A 1360 – Sc. 1: 2500; stereo coordinates inventory 70; extract from the
cadastral plan of Bara village - Scale 1:5000; area framing - Scale 1:10000; extract from the plot register.

Conclusions

Taking into considerations the aspects presented in the paper, some advantages of using modern
equipment in the agricultural field can be noticed. Thus, the following conclusions can be drawn:

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- the leveling is performed by simplified technical procedures, which do not require supplementary effort
on the part of the operators, and the time dedicated to the work is much shorter;
- topo-geodesic methods have practically replaced all the traditional leveling methods; besides the large
quantity of highly-efficient planimetric leveling, they present the advantage that they allow of an
electronic inventory of the work performed;
- the future evolution will be towards obtaining even higher precision than the existent one, in a shorter
time and with lower costs;
- the expanding use of electronic computers has determined, among others, a new form of representing
the geographic phenomena, namely the digital map, which represents the variant accessible to the
electronic computer. It has been used largely in various activities of the technical, economic, social and
scientific fields.

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2. Boş, N., Topografie, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 1993;
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4. Călina, A., Mustaţă, I., Călina Jenica, Iagăru, R., Calculul şi detaşarea suprafeţelor. Nivelmentul, Editura Sitech, Craiova, 1999;
5. Constantinescu, I., Curs de topografie generală şi inginerească, Reprografia Universităţii din Craiova, 1999;

Luminita Livia Bârliba, PhD, Lecturer, Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Timisoara,
Romania, Address: Calea Aradului 119, cod 300645Timisoara, Romania. E-mail: barlibacostel@yahoo.com
Costel Bârliba, associate professor, Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Timisoara,
Romania, Address: Calea Aradului 119, cod 300645Timisoara, Romania. E-mail: barlibacostel@yahoo.com

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