To validate and expand upon JRC's Urban Centre Database (UCDB) to provide place names and population data for settlements around the world.

To provide national and subnational estimates of SDG indicator 7.1.1, the proportion of the population with access to electricity, produced using global open data.

To provide urban center level estimates of the proportion of population that has convenient access to public transportation.

To provide national and subnational estimates of SDG indicator 9.1.1, which measures the proportion of the rural population who live within 2 kilometers of an all-season road.

To provide urban center level estimates of the average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all.

To provide a cumulative measure of human modification of terrestrial lands based on modeling the physical extents of 13 anthropogenic stressors and their estimated impacts using spatially-explicit global data sets.

To provide spatially-explicit data that relatively rank global land suitability referred to as Development Potential Indices (DPIs) for 13 sectors related to renewable energy, fossil fuels, mining and agriculture as an aid to conservation priority setting.

To provide a future development threat map based on combining these resources: agricultural expansion, urban expansion, conventional oil and gas, unconventional oil and gas, coal, mining, biofuels, solar, and wind.

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 a global data set of average summer daytime maximum/nighttime minimum land surface temperatures (LSTs) for urban extents, as well as the LST difference between the urban area and the buffer.

To provide raster representations of global summer daytime maximum and nighttime minimum surface temperature for studies related to human health and climate change.

To provide urban land use and informal settlements for the years 1982, 1992, 1998, and 2002 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

To provide a global data set of point locations and attributes describing nuclear power plants and reactors.

To provide an easily accessible, corrected data set of polygons for hazardous waste sites in the United States which can be used to identify nearby populations and assess their potential risk.

To provide an easily accessible, corrected EPA data set of the geo-referenced locations displayed as points for all the National Priorities List (NPL) Superfund sites in the United States, Puerto Rico, and other territories.

To provide a geographically explicit and reliable database of dams for the scientific community.

To provide a geographically explicit and reliable database of reservoirs for the scientific community.

To provide the ATSDR polygon data set of hazardous waste sites in the United States, Puerto Rico, and other territories which can be used to identify nearby populations and assess their potential risk.

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