Amrutha, A.S.; Varghese, Abin; Prakash, Sreelakshmi; Baiju, K.R.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
On the windward side of western ghats, the frequency of landslides has significantly increased in recent years. Kerala had catastrophic landslides and floods in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, resulting in the loss of lives ...
Premarathne, B.M.N.; Manuranga, K. P.; Vandebona, R.; Prasanna, H. M. I.; Lakmal, A. H.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
In today's world, it is critical to have an uninterrupted power supply for human activities, industries, and other operations that rely on electricity to work properly. Power lines are cabling that transports electricity ...
Kuganan, V.; Prasanna, H.M.I.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
The use of satellites for precise positioning has become crucial in the modern world. The highest positional accuracy cannot be obtained using a single satellite constellation alone. This study aimed to assess the horizontal ...
Edirisinghe, E.A.D.U.; Welikanna, D.R.; Thunendran, P.; Bandara, R.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Due to the unavailability of a dense gravimetric network, Sri Lanka belongs to an area where gravity anomaly data are of poor nature. When developing the Global Geopotential Model (GGM) EGM2008, fill-in gravity anomalies ...
Ariyarathna, R.K.A.; Kumari, Y.M.R.N.; Rathnayake, R.D.M.I.; Tharanga, P.V.D.; Dammalage, T.L(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
With the growing demand for accurate and reliable positioning and navigation applications in various inland and offshore hydrographic surveying applications, there has been a significant move towards the use of real-time ...
Vaiguntharasa, Gobinath; Rajavarathan, Jenan; Thilantha, Dammalage(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Multipath is known to be a hard to mitigate, site-dependent error in determination of positioning solutions of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) applications. There are several better antenna designs and processing ...
Kasthuriarachchi, K.A.S.Y.; Piyasena, N.M.P. M.; Vithanage, P.A.D. V.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) provides a operational framework for geographic data, metadata users, and associated tools that are interactively connected to use spatial data efficiently and flexibly. A National Spatial ...
Thennakoon, Y.G.D.P.K.; Liyanage, N.H.; Vithanage, P.A.D.V.; De Silva, J.S.R.; Witharana, S.L.; Piysena, N.M.P.M.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
To regulate the distribution of the benefits of a certain land area for specific uses, land rights give immense support. Land consolidation and land use planning are the main aspects of land management which show importance ...
Walisinghe, W.D.R.V.; De Silva, J.S.R.; Vithanage, P.A.D.V.; Witharana, S.L.; Piyasena, N.M.P.M.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Tourism has substantial importance on the economy of Sri Lanka. For developing lands to gain more profit from the tourism industry, requires real estate with secure land tenure thus land tenure, in its simplest meaning, ...
Witharana, S.L.; Piyasena, N.M.P.M.; Vithanage, P.A.D.V.; Munasinghe, M.A.T.S.; De Silva, A.I.U(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Currently, geodetic receivers with high specifications for real-time data acquisitions, are marketed for an enormous price which is unbearable for most users. Hence, as a solution, a series of high-precision positioning ...
Vithanage, P.A.D.V.; Witharana, S.L.; De Silva, J.S.R.; Munasinghe, M.A.T.S.; De Silva, A.I.U.; Piyasena, N.M.P.M.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Due to the freshwater scarcity resulting from the increment of the sea level and followed exacerbated along with the deepening of the river beds through unregulated sand mining activities, it has been necessitated to have ...
Khadanga, Dr. Ganesh; Venkatesh, D.S .; Kumar, M.V. Sunish; Shanmuga, Sundari S; Karupothu, Surendranath; Chaudhary, Saurav; Sengupta, Seemanteeni; SinghSethi, Inder Pal; Misra, D.C(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
This paper briefly introduces the tools used for the issue of Record of Rights (RoR) to the land owners containing the ownership details, the extent of the land, the land parcel map with boundary details and information ...
Wee, Kelvin Tang Kang; Hussaini, Alhaji(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Acquiring hydro-spatial information across the marine environment has traditionally been appeased by submerged ship-based acoustic gears. For the first time in history, the continuous nationwide lockdown across the globe ...
Godinho, J.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
To face the undergoing climate and energy crises, Irish Government planned to develop a significant network of offshore wind infrastructures. Since last March, Green Rebel started surveying the North Celtic Sea area, awarded ...
Tharanga, P.V.D.; Ranaweera, S.R.C.; Kumari, Y.M.R.N.; Ariyarathna, R.K.A.; Wijesundara, W.A.A.P.; Rathnayake, R.D.M.I.; Gunathilaka, M.D.E.K.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Sub-Bottom Profiler (SBP) is one of the effective tools used to identify the sediment layers beneath the seabed or bottom of any water body. SBP is similar to the echo sounder, but parts of the sound pulse penetrate the ...
Xie, Zhihong; Zhang, Ran(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
USVs (Unmanned Surface Vehicles) have been placed in the industries and applied from hydrographic surveying and coastal oceanographic surveying to open sea areas. Improved efficiency and safety will be the driving factor ...
Fairoz, M. F. M.(Faculty of Geomatics Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-01)
Coral reef ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and provide a number of services and products relevant to blue economy that include, for example, sectors such as tourism, fisheries, biotechnology/bioprospecting, and coastal ...