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 an updated map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide an updated map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in Interrupted Goode Homolosine Projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide an updated map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in the Interrupted Goode Homolosine Projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide an updated map of wild areas in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide an updated map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in geographic projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To provide an updated map of wild areas in Interrupted Goode Homolosine Projection which can be used for wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To preserve access to the original climate and land cover data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original ecosystems data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original rapid land cover change data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original biodiversity data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original set of socioeconomic and natural resource scenarios used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To provide a map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in geographic projection which can be used in modeling efforts, wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, policy-making, biodiversity studies and human-environment interactions.

To provide a map of anthropogenic impacts on the environment in the Interrupted Goode Homosoline Projection which can be used in wildlife conservation planning, natural resource management, and research on human-environment interactions.

To identify remaining natural vegetation types in Central America.

To provide a database of public China maps, searchable by location, scale, content, publisher, and publication date.