The Geomatics for Environment and Development Program (GED) applies remote sensing and geographic information systems (RS-GIS) in order to map out social and environmental information that are needed to guide the sustainable development agenda of local communities.

RS-GIS technologies are harnessed to locate:

• development-critical elements (e.g. infrastructure, livelihood clusters, urban poor settlements),
• environmental resources (e.g. energy, air, water, land), and
• disaster risk-prone/vulnerable areas in the country.

GED also tracks the temporal and spatial movements of these elements, resources, and vulnerable areas. Its main purpose is to address humanitarian, environmental, and pre-disaster concerns.

Past and on-going projects under this program include:

• Urban poverty morphology
• Hazards, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, risk, and impacts mapping
• Air quality GIS for source emission and population exposure
• Environmental and development-critical resource mapping
• Training and apprenticeship