To facilitate the exchange of HarvestChoice-developed datasets and analysis results with broader geospatial community, a standard/systematic global grid database was developed for multiple spatial resolutions (from 1 degree to 30 arc-second). The new grid database, called HCID, can be used as a key identifier that links and harmonizes various themes of raster datasets as well as aggregates them even at multiple resolutions. This can be helpful not only for GIS analysts but also for researchers who would need to handle the datasets in relational database management systems.
