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

To provide phosphorus in manure production data that can be used in socioeconomic and ecological modeling and to explore anthropogenic activities on ecosystems.

To provide phosphorus fertilizer application data that can be used in socioeconomic and ecological modeling and to explore anthropogenic activities on ecosystems.

To provide nitrogen fertilizer application data that can be used in socioeconomic and ecological modeling and to explore anthropogenic activities on ecosystems.

To provide nitrogen in manure production data that can be used in socioeconomic and ecological modeling and to explore anthropogenic activities on ecosystems.

To provide a time series of raster population data for ntegration with other data sets.

To provide a raster representation of urban areas (or urban mask) for use with GRUMP population grids or other data sets.

To provide land area data for use with GRUMPv1 population and urban data as well as a quantitative measure of resolution of the input spatial units for GRUMPv1.

To provide a time series of raster population density data for data integration.

To permit the summation of population values by country/territory and, in combination with other data layers, the summation of population values by irregular areas represented in the other data layers and country/territory.

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

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global flood hazard.

To provide a means of assessing global landslide mortality risks and distribution.

To identify areas of the world that are at greater risk of multihazard total economic loss.

To provide insight into the frequency and distribution of multihazard events.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global cyclone hazard.

To provide a means of assessing the relative distribution and frequency of global volcano hazard.

To provide a spatial surface of the total economic impacts of global drought hazard.

To identify areas of the world at multihazard mortality risk and to gain insight into the nature of this risk posed.