Sri Lanka’s Global GIS and Uni­versity of Ruhuna enter into MoU

GNSS CORS network to be established on university grounds

Global GIS (Pvt) Ltd, a pion­eer in geo­spa­tial pos­i­tion­ing solu­tions in Sri Lanka, has entered a Memor­andum of Under­stand­ing with the Uni­versity of Ruhuna to col­lab­or­ate with the Depart­ment of Civil and Envir­on­mental Engin­eer­ing and the Depart­ment of Elec­trical and Inform­a­tion Engin­eer­ing of the Fac­ulty of Engin­eer­ing.

Areas iden­ti­fied for col­lab­or­a­tion include con­duct­ing research and devel­op­ment activ­it­ies, devel­op­ing and com­mer­cial­iz­ing new inven­tions and solu­tions, industry projects and con­sult­ing oppor­tun­it­ies, and dis­sem­in­at­ing sci­entific know­ledge to meet the grow­ing demand of sur­vey­ing and geo­spa­tial tech­no­lo­gies and to increase effi­ciency and sus­tain­ab­il­ity in the nation’s engin­eer­ing indus­tries and its them­atic require­ments.

“We are hon­ored to enter this mutu­ally bene­fi­cial col­lab­or­a­tion with the Uni­versity of Ruhuna to enhance capa­city and sup­port the grow­ing geo­spa­tial and sur­vey­ing industry in Sri Lanka,” said Nish­shanka De Silva, sureyor and CEO-man­aging dir­ector of Global GIS. “We aim to take the industry in Sri Lanka to the next level with new innov­at­ive products and solu­tions while build­ing suf­fi­cient capa­city to under­take the coun­try’s next phase of growth. Geo­spa­tial and sur­vey­ing tech­no­logy plays a sig­ni­fic­ant role in sus­tain­able infra­struc­ture plan­ning, renew­able energy, dis­aster man­age­ment, optim­iz­ing nat­ural resource alloc­a­tion, and many other areas as Sri Lanka pur­sues its national devel­op­ment goals.”

Under the MOU, Global GIS will estab­lish a high-pre­ci­sion GNSS Con­tinu­ously Oper­at­ing Ref­er­ence Sta­tion (CORS) net­work sta­tion at the uni­versity to enhance the uni­versity’s capa­city for advanced GNSS-based research and applic­a­tions to pro­mote GNSS tech­no­logy among gov­ern­ment, semigov­ern­ment, and private organ­iza­tions.

Global GIS will also open a fund­ing avenue to

• sup­port research and devel­op­ment activ­it­ies for the dur­a­tion of the agree­ment,
• provide neces­sary com­mer­cial­iza­tion exper­i­ence and busi­ness know­ledge for new inven­tions and solu­tions,
• con­duct train­ing and intern­ship oppor­tun­it­ies for the under­gradu­ates on sur­vey­ing and geo­spa­tial tech­no­lo­gies to foster skill devel­op­ment and prac­tical exper­i­ence, and
• lever­age its “Author­ized Agent” status for the brands it pro­motes in Sri Lanka to enhance the Uni­versity of Ruhuna’s capa­city in the latest sur­vey­ing and geo­spa­tial tech­no­lo­gies.