Luc Verelst is an ICT/GIS specialist with more than 25 years of professional experience in the use of GIS, ICT, and Remote Sensing for Ecosystems Engineering and Asset Management. He has confirmed experience in designing irrigation Asset Management Systems in combination with irrigation modernization programs in the Philippines (ADB TA-9971) and Vietnam (ADB TA-9681) and irrigation asset inventorying in Tajikistan (Zarafshan basin, EU) and Afghanistan (Amu Darya Basin, EU) through extensive field surveys.