University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Institute of Human Resource Advancement (IHRA)

MSc in Geoinformatics

3rd Semester Examination – March, 2014

MSGis 14: Geoinformatics Applications - Mid Semester Examination

Answer all questions 2 hours

1. Explain advantages of the Participatory & Community GIS as a spatial data capturing

method with suitable examples.

2. Suppose, you will have to analyze the landslides regions in the Kandy municipal area,

as a researcher listed down the required data for the above mention analysis and

discussed the contribution of resolution of data to increased the accuracy of your

analysis.

3. Ministry of Environment need to introduce proper system for Natural Resources

management systems in Sri Lanka, as a GIS expert, explain how they can apply

Geo_informatics for the above task with suitable examples.

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