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International Development

Multi-year World Bank vendor with projects across many countries. 3ie, West African Development Bank, and Wellcome Trust engagements. UNDB platform participant.

Burkina FasoSierra LeoneMadagascarVietnamBangladeshBhutanIndiaNepalLesothoTanzaniaZambiaUkraineSaudi ArabiaYemenTimor-LesteNorth Macedonia
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Nighttime lights, agriculture, infrastructure

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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.

InternationalWorld BankAI/MLNighttime LightsCloud

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.

InternationalWorld BankConflict ZonesSatellite Imagery

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.

InternationalWorld BankClimate ResilienceStory Maps

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.

InternationalWorld BankMulti-CountrySpatio-Temporal

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.

InternationalWorld BankCapacity BuildingFixed-Price

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.

InternationalWorld BankRemote SensingOpen Data

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.

InternationalNGOTrainingCapacity BuildingBOAD

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Related work, products & insights

ProjectFederal

FEMA Enterprise GIS — GeoPlatform & Mapping and Analysis Center

FEMA

Enterprise geospatial platform, situational-awareness applications, and embedded geospatial teams supporting national disaster response — a FEMA relationship running since 2006 across prime and subcontract roles.

Prime and subcontract roles active

Emergency ManagementGeospatial & Remote SensingCloud & Managed Services
2016–present
ProjectFederal

FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness — ESSD WebMap

FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness

Interactive, multi-user exercise and simulation mapping platform (ESSD WebMap) built, hosted, and operated for CDP’s all-hazards responder training campus in Anniston, Alabama.

NLT-built and operated · multi-jurisdictional training simulation

Geospatial & Remote SensingSoftware & Systems EngineeringEmergency Management
2021–present
ProjectFederal

FEMA Recovery — Aerial Imagery Support

FEMA

Aerial-imagery acquisition support and analysis services informing preliminary damage assessments and recovery operations.

Geospatial & Remote SensingEmergency Management
ProjectFederal

FEMA TEMPO — Disaster Incident Mapping (nltIMPACT)

FEMA

Rapid incident-mapping capability built on nltIMPACT technology, adopted across federal and international response partners for common operating pictures.

Adopted across federal and international response partners

Geospatial & Remote SensingEmergency Management
ProjectFederal

FEMA Forecasted Flood Depth Grid Model

FEMA

AI/ML model predicting inundation extent and structural damage from real-time gauge readings, elevation, and structures data; enhanced with ICEYE SAR.

Production AI/ML · near-real-time damage assessment

Data Science & AIEmergency Management
2017–present
ProjectFederal

FEMA Earthquake Exposure & Damage Model

FEMA

Production model estimating exposure and damages from real-time seismic readings; now integrated into nltSeismicMapper.

Data Science & AIEmergency Management
2018–present

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International Procurement Ready

UNDB Platform participant. World Bank vendor. Many-country engagement history. NLT is equipped to support international development programs globally.

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