Overview
ISO 19152-3:2024 - Geographic information - Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) - Part 3: Marine georegulation specifies a standardized conceptual model and schema for describing legal, administrative and spatial information in the marine domain. Building on the common components of ISO 19152-1, this international standard defines the information structures needed to manage marine legal spaces (for example international maritime limits and boundaries, resource-management areas, conservation zones) and their associated rights, restrictions and responsibilities.
Keywords: ISO 19152-3, LADM, marine georegulation, maritime boundaries, marine spatial planning, geospatial interoperability.
Key topics and technical requirements
- Scope and purpose: standardize concepts and structure for georegulation in marine space, enabling consistent representation of legal spaces and their legal relations.
- Core schema elements: packages and classes for Party, Administrative (BAUnit, RRR, rights/responsibilities/restrictions), Spatial unit (limits, zones, surfaces, spaces, volumes), Source, and MRN-related elements.
- Geometry and topology: a defined geometry structure for point, curve, surface and volume representations to model marine limits and zones.
- Feature and attribute structure: defined feature types, attributes and relationships for marine governance, spatial units and parties.
- Conformance and testing: conformance requirements and conformance classes, including:
- Class 1 - Marine limits and boundaries in support of UNCLOS
- Class 2 - General marine georegulation implementations
- Notation, context and inheritance: aligned with ISO 19152-1 common components and includes rules for notation and contextual metadata.
Practical applications
- Mapping and managing international maritime limits and boundaries in support of UNCLOS submissions and maritime claims.
- Designing and operating marine protected areas (MPAs), fisheries management zones and resource extraction concessions with explicit legal rights and restrictions.
- Enabling interoperable marine spatial planning, permitting, enforcement and compliance systems across agencies and jurisdictions.
- Integrating marine georegulation data into national cadastre and geographic information systems for planning, environmental assessment and offshore industry management.
Who should use this standard
- National hydrographic and cadastral authorities
- Marine and environmental regulators, maritime boundary commissions
- Coastal and marine spatial planners, conservation agencies
- GIS and software vendors, system integrators building marine governance platforms
- Offshore energy, fisheries and maritime industry stakeholders requiring standardized legal-space data exchange
Related standards
- ISO 19152-1 (common components for the LADM), which ISO 19152-3 builds upon.
- References and compliance guidance are provided within ISO 19152-3 for conformance testing and implementation.
This standard supports interoperable, legally-aware marine geospatial information systems for better governance, planning and resource management.
