Geospatial Environment
From earth observation
to decisions.
Strategic services in geospatial analysis, remote sensing, data science & science communication — helping environmental and development organisations turn satellite data into action on climate and disaster risk.
About our practice
A boutique practice, not a 20-person firm — on purpose.
We are a boutique geospatial consulting group led by an expert with 20+ years delivering mission-critical solutions for environmental and development clients. Our work bridges operational needs and scientific rigor to help organisations transform data into decisions.
You work directly with the scientist doing the analysis. That means tailored methods, flexible engagements, and answers that hold up to peer review — without the overhead.
Meet the team
Why us
"Why this practice, and not a big firm?"
Fair question. Here's the honest answer.
A track record you can verify
PhD research published in three peer-reviewed papers, a decade at the University of Maryland with NASA and USAID funding, and eight years as senior consultant to the World Bank's GFDRR. It's all checkable.
We've sat on your side of the table
Years inside World Bank operations mean we know what a task team actually needs: defensible methods, clean tables, deadlines met — not a 200-page annex nobody reads.
The person you call is the person who does the work
No juniors learning on your budget, no account managers in between. Senior scientist, direct line, tailored scope.
Honest about uncertainty
Satellite data has limits. We tell you what the data can support and what it can't — before you build a programme on it.
What we help you answer
Clients don't come to us for "services." They come with questions.
Floods, heat stress, monsoons, typhoons. We characterise physical hazards, their uncertainty, and how they evolve under climate change over the next 10–30 years.
Using satellite-derived built-up area and population datasets, we map where people and assets sit in harm's way — including settlements no census has caught up with yet.
We pre-process and analyse satellite archives at scale and deliver them in the formats institutions actually use: clean tables, defensible methods, clear reports.
Ten satellites, ten institutions, ten products — different resolutions, different trade-offs. We help you pick the right one for the question, not the one off the shelf.
Analysis only matters if decision-makers act on it. We design visualisations, narratives and reporting that carry findings from the model to the ministry.
Through the UR Field Labs format we run collaborative, participant-led events that build skills, networks and real outputs — from one week to one month, on your theme.
Proof of work
Featured projects
Only the highlights. The full archive lives in Our Work.
Impact spotlight
The UR Field Labs
Co-designing new paradigms for addressing climate & disaster risk management issues.
Collaborative, participant-led "unconferences" where global, interdisciplinary teams produce real outputs — research, tools, dashboards, maps and creative media — backed by GFDRR, the World Bank, universities and NGOs.
Trusted by
Partners & clients
Eight years, three core clients, and a network of research and Field Lab partners across four continents.
In their words
What clients & collaborators say
Giuseppe took a question we'd been circling for months and turned it into a table we could put in front of government counterparts the same quarter.
Rare combination: rigorous enough for peer review, fast enough for operations, and able to explain it to a non-technical room.
The Field Lab changed how our team thinks about working with climate data — and the network it gave us is still paying off.
Insights
Latest from the blog
News coverage, journal mentions, and notes from the field.
Have a hazard, a dataset, or a question you can't answer yet?
A 30-minute call is the fastest way to find out whether — and how — we can help. No decks, no account managers. Just the scientist.
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