To provide high spatial resolution estimates of global urban extent derived from global 30m Landsat satellite data for the target year 2010 and a companion dataset to the Global Man-made Impervious Surface (GMIS) dataset.

To provide high spatial resolution estimates of global man-made imperviousness for the target year 2010, derived from global 30m Landsat satellite data and a companion dataset to the Global Human Built-up And Settlement Extent (HBASE) dataset.

To provide estimates of total, urban and rural populations and land areas in proximity to nuclear power plants.

To provide documentation on roads data sets that are potential candidates for inclusion in the Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS), and which may be useful to others searching for data on road infrastructure.

To provide a set of coastlines consistent with GPWv3 raster data for cartographic purposes.

To provide maps of the input administrative units used in GPWv3.

To provide a raster representation of nation-states in GPWv3 for use in aggregating population data.

To provide a quantitative measure of the input resolution of administrative units used for GPWv3.

To provide a quantitative measure of the input resolution of administrative units used for GPWv3.

To provide a vector (point) version of the input administrative units used in GPWv3 for use in data integration.