*UPDATE: Opportunity Ended.*
View the publication along with other articles with NLT contributions at on our publications page.
Opportunity for researchers to submit a novel study to the Special Issue that NLT’s Chief Scientist Ran Goldblatt is editing with Nick Jones (World Bank Group), Nicholas Clinton (Google) and Trevor Monroe (World Bank Group) in Remote Sensing MDPI journal.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to stimulate progress in remote sensing research into measuring the SDGs and monitoring the progress of countries towards achieving them. The issue brings together novel studies, methods, and measurement techniques that utilize remotely sensed data to monitor countries` progress towards achieving the SDGs and improve the timeliness, coverage, and quality of SDG-related data.
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2022.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/rs_measurements_SDGs
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The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries, promoting sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in the developing world. With extensive experience in supporting and leading applied research and science, NLT provides several divisions at the World Bank support and guidance implementing information technology, geospatial and data science solutions for various research and development initiatives. Our interdisciplinary team of Economists, Geographers, Computer Scientists, and Statisticians lead the design and implementation of data-driven solutions to support and enhance land management, agriculture, economic development, transportation planning, and disaster response projects in developing nations throughout the world. In support of these projects, NLT has pioneered innovative methods and tools exploiting free and open-source satellite imagery and other geospatial data to monitor urbanization processes, crop health, natural hazard risk, and more. Details about these innovations have been reported in numerous peer reviewed journals and papers, a sampling of which are available on the NLT Publications page.