International Development
Multi-year World Bank vendor with projects across many countries. 3ie, West African Development Bank, and Wellcome Trust engagements. UNDB platform participant.
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The record →Multi-Country Delivery
Nighttime lights, agriculture, infrastructure
Featured Past Performance
International clients →Development analytics across many countries
NLT delivers nighttime-lights, agriculture, and infrastructure analytics for the World Bank across many countries and five continents — turning satellite and open data into economic and development insight where ground data is scarce.
Named International Engagements
World Bank — Nighttime Lights Socioeconomic Observatory
The World Bank Group, Multi-year, Many Countries
NLT pioneered AI/ML methods exploiting nighttime light satellite imagery to study urbanization processes, transportation dynamics, agricultural practices, economic activity, climate resiliency, health outcomes, and natural hazard risk. Cloud platform for visualization and dissemination.
World Bank — Yemen Conflict Economic Activity Tracker
The World Bank Group, Yemen, Multi-year
Satellite imagery and spatial analysis to track economic activity in conflict-affected areas of Yemen for World Bank economic monitoring.
Burkina Faso — Flood-Resilient Mass Transit Planning
The World Bank Group, Ouagadougou
Story Maps and spatial analysis for flood-resilient mass transit planning in Ouagadougou. Flood risk, transit corridors, and urban planning integrated into actionable visualizations.
World Bank — Transportation Corridor Analyses
4-country study: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, 2019-2020
Socio-economic indicators along transportation corridors — nighttime lights, built-up area, land cover, population, natural hazards — aggregated into synoptic regional reports.
Timor-Leste — Open Satellite Data Feeds
World Bank, 6/6/2019-6/30/2019
Fixed-price engagement delivering open-access satellite feeds for economic and public sector governance management in Timor-Leste.
Nepal Economic Diagnostic
World Bank, 2019-2020
Remotely sensed assessment of economic trends using Landsat-7, VIIRS, DMSP-OLS, and Global Forest Change data at administrative levels 2 and 3.
3ie / West African Development Bank Training Modules
3ie International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Training modules on geospatial impact evaluation for 3ie and the West African Development Bank (BOAD). Capacity building for evaluation specialists.
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UNDB Platform participant. World Bank vendor. Many-country engagement history. NLT is equipped to support international development programs globally.
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