To serve a wide user community by providing composite Landsat images and raw data for urban areas that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of remote sensing and the environment.

To provide geographical portraits of vulnerability designed to incorporate both exposure to climate change and national capacities to adapt.

To provide quantitative metrics for evaluating a country's environmental performance in different policy categories relative to clearly defined targets.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global landslide mortality risks and distribution.

To identify areas of the world that are at greater risk of multihazard total economic loss.

To provide insight into the frequency and distribution of multihazard events.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global cyclone hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global volcano hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global drought hazard.

To identify areas of the world at multihazard mortality risk and to gain insight into the nature of this risk posed.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global volcano hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global landslide hazard.

To identify areas of the world that are at greater risk of multihazard proportional economic loss.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global earthquake hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global landslide hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global volcano hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the proportional economic impacts of global drought hazard.