URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (GIS) CENTER                      With the assistance of World Bank under Colombo Environmental Improvement Project, UDA was able to set up a GIS Centre in support of planning activities. The year commenced with heavy emphasis on the integration of GIS, research and planning functions to expedite the process in formulation of development plans of the local authorities declared under UDA and to attend to the relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction of Tsunami affected areas as well as war affected areas in the Northern Province

Our GIS Centre located at 7th Floor of the ‘Sethsiripaya’ Building at Battaramulla Sri Lanka consists of a
a) Main GIS Centre and
b) User Centre.

The scope of the centre is to provide digital data required for planning and management of urban areas by applying latest technologies and automation of its planning process by developing Integrated Urban GIS Databases. The functions of the centre is three fold:

a) Geographic Information System applications
b) Remote Sensing applications
c) Global Positioning System applications

| The main activities of the UDA (GIS) Centre |

::: Development of site selection criteria for different activities connected with action project.

::: Establishment of a National Net and Development of comprehensive Integrated National GIS Database at Grama Niladhari Divisions.

::: Develop the necessary procedures required for the image processing functions connected with Quick Bird, IKONOS,IRS,SPOT and any other satellite images.

::: Develop and customize the already developed software packages for local authorities who are interesting in e_planning concept and planning approval & clearance systems.

::: All ending user requests

Avalabale Digital Map Base

• Scanned & Geo-referenced 1:50,000 Maps
• Scanned & Geo-referenced 1:100,000 Maps
• Scanned & Geo-referenced 1:63,360 Maps
• Digital Layer of 1:250,000 Maps
• Land Use Map of Sri Lanka Based on 1:50,000 Maps
• Road Network Map of Sri Lanka Based on 1:50,000 Maps
• Avalabale Ikonos satalite images of Sri Lanka
• Ikonos Images of post Tsunami Coverage