Gisat has been selected as one of the European EO services provider within the frame of the joint ESA and the World Bank initiative eoworld to support the World Bank specialists in sustainable urban management and planning activities in megacities around India and Bangladesh.

The required services consists of historical assessment (for period 1990-2011) of spatial growth of built-ups in metropolitan areas of 3 selected cities: Delhi, Mumbai and Dhaka and includes both production of spatially explicit multi-temporal information monitoring urban development using satellite imagery data as well as the subsequent assessment report provision.