- development and management of multi-level (national, regional and global) geospatial databases

- highly efficient data acquisition and processing from multi-sources, including field surveying, remote sensing, real-time sensors and crowdsourcing;

- synchronization of disparate geospatial resources to provide a useful, usable, and enabling framework that can be integrated with environmental and socio-economic data for research, discovery and web services characterized by broad access and ″end-to-end″ coordination

- methods, strategies and techniques for sustained, dynamic and incremental updating and versioning of the database and maintaining the consistence of multi-scale and multi-resolution datasets in the process of updating.

- interoperability standards and specifications