To provide data on changes in freshwater availability in order to better understand impacts on regional food supplies, human and ecosystem health, energy generation, and social unrest.

To provide a gridded version of existing SeaWiFS data in GIS-compatible formats in order to determine concentrations of chlorophyll-a in the coastal water column and to facilitate the integration with other data.

To provide data that can assist in the extraction and analysis of chlorophyll-a concentration and trends from global grids.

To provide tabular data on the trends of chlorophyll-a concentration on a pixel by pixel basis for identifying areas with improving, declining, and stable coastal water quality that can provide guidance for decision making in the context of coastal management.

To provide information on anthropogenic transformation of the biosphere circa 1700 for global land use studies and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide information on anthropogenic transformation of the biosphere circa 1900 for global land use studies and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide information on global land use for research on human-environment interactions.

To provide information on anthropogenic transformation of the biosphere circa 1800 for global land use studies and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide information on anthropogenic transformation of the biosphere circa 2000 for global land use studies and research on human-environment interactions.

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) for large-scale health and environmental research.

To provide a continuous surface of NO2 concentrations for health and environmental research.

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 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 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 data that can be used in land cover and land use change (LCLUC) studies, agricultural applications, and to assist with policy-making in regards to sustainable agricultural intensification.

To provide data on the extent of croplands for research on human-environment interactions.

To provide data on the extent of pasturelands for research on human-environment interactions.

To provide high and low resolution elevation in forested ecosystems in the coastal zone of West Africa.