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Mzuzu University 2022
Department of Built Environment
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Japhet khendlo
khendlo.j@mzuni.ac.mw
Advanced Spatial Information System
1. Define the following terms as used in Geographical information system (GIS).
a. Spatial analysis
b. Measurement functions
c. Spatial queries
d. Classification
2. With the higher cases of rape and teenage pregnancies in Malawi, as a GIS expert you
have been approached by UNICEF, explain how you can perform point pattern
analysis to produce a Map of Malawi depicting the frequency and intensity of rape
cases in across the districts.
3. National bank of Malawi intends to move from analog to digital format of Know your
Customer (KYC) system. The system involves attaching personal attribute such as
names, year of birth, name of village, Traditional Authority and District of origin to a
map to create geodatabase for easy retrieval and visualization of customer’s location.
They have employed you as a GIS expert to help in the pilot study of this system.
Using ArcGIS10.6, explain how you will build the system.
4. Mzuzu City Council through funding from Mzuzu University wants to build a new
sewer treatment city in the outskirts of the City. Explain how you can employ GIS and
Analytical Hierarchy Processing to conduct a suitability analysis for this new sewer
treatment site.
5. Chikangawa forest has experienced deforation on rapid scale from 1990s through
2021. As a GIS expert explain how you can carry Land use and land cover to quantify
the loss of vegetation in Chikangawa forest. In your explanation, include the tools and
methods of checking any error you may incur in your data processing.