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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