With thousands of projects being proposed as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the WWF sought assistance in the development of a Linear Infrastructure model.
This was to determine the likely routes these projects would take considering asset class, elevation, slope, terrain and existing infrastructure.
The model was to be submitted as an ESRI file geodatabase with estimated routes of up to 2000 linear (road, rail, pipeline) projects.
WWF chose Compass Informatics to model the impact of proposed infrastructure projects globally.