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 annual global surface concentrations (micrograms per cubic meter) of all composition ground-level fine particulate matter less than or equal to 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5) for large-scale health and environmental research.

To provide a high-resolution, longitudinal global data set of annual extreme humid-heat.

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

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 global estimates of the surface urban heat island intensity from monthly, seasonal, to annual scales for over 10,000 urban clusters developed using a simplified urban-extent algorithm.

To provide a literature database tracking the use of the sub-global scenarios consisting of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) that extend the global SSP narratives and framework for climate, socioeconomic, environmental, and other related research.

To provide an annual global surface of concentrations (micrograms per cubic meter) of all composition ground-level fine particulate matter of 2.5 micrometers or smaller (PM2.5) for large-scale health and environmental research.

To provide a 28-year time series of microwave backscatter to support analysis of patterns and trends in growth of global urban building infrastructure.

To provide a framework of public-health-focused air quality indicators that quantifies country trends in exposure to major air pollutants.

To provide daily and annual Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5), Ozone (O3), and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) concentrations data at ZIP Codes for the contiguous U.S. for research in environmental epidemiology, environmental justice, and health equity by linking with ZIP Code-level demographic and medical data sets, and for other related research.

To provide an annual global surface of concentrations (micrograms per cubic meter) of mineral dust and sea-salt filtered fine particulate matter of 2.5 micrometers or smaller (PM2.5) in countries and urban areas for large-scale health and environmental research

To provide global data on human population, built up area, and degree of urbanization for the years 1975, 1990, 2000, and 2014/2015 in the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) geographic coordinate system.

To provide global SSP-consistent spatial urban land projections and base year grids based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) data at a resolution of 1-km (about 30 arc-seconds) for climate, socioeconomic, environmental, and other related research.

To provide a high-resolution, longitudinal global data set of extreme urban heat events and urban heat exposure.

To provide a literature database tracking the use of a global scenarios framework consisting of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), and Shared Policy Assumptions (SPAs), for climate, socioeconomic, environmental, and other related research.

To provide a polygon representation of urban areas with city or agglomeration name and time series population estimates.

To visualize changes in brightness and extent of global nighttime lights networks over two decades with improved radiometric accuracy and finer spatial resolution.

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.