GeoLab is a Geospatial Solutions Center, operating within the World Bank Group’s Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) unit. It is an innovation solutions center that provides geospatial services to World Bank Group staff and empowers global development teams to leverage geospatial data, digital twins, and AI for smarter decision-making.
Locations:
Support with data collection, organization, and analysis, procurement of satellite imagery, Geospatial data and Drone Operations, capacity building for operations teams and clients.
Support with developing cross-cutting Geospatial Solutions (e.g. Application Development, Dashboard and StoryMaps creation, Dataset Integration into existing platforms/applications).
Support with enterprise tools.
Explore and visualize World Bank Group projects, combine them with datasets, analyses, satellite imagery or use the predefined datasets in the toolkit.
Explore the latest global and country-level data on food crisis severity, crisis preparedness, global food security financing and innovative research to strengthen crisis response and resilience.
Access Building Resilience Index that provides the building sector a web-based hazard mapping and resilience assessment framework.
Instantly analyze large regions to map and quantify broad categories of land cover such as urbanized areas, croplands, forest, or water bodies.
Access satellite images with different spatial resolutions. Satellite imagery can modernize the planning process, ensuring that partners have access to precise, up-to-date information.
Access cloud-based drone mapping services for imagery acquisition, processing, and analysis as an effective, innovative solution for remotely preparing, supervising, and evaluating World Bank Group projects.
Harness the power of location-based data analysis, machine learning and generative AI algorithms to rapidly generate comprehensive environmental and social risk insights.
