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After the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, ORNL's LandScan "High Resolution Global Population Data Set" had a huge impact. This award-winning population distribution database helped government agencies estimate how many people were potentially affected and where to send emer-gency supplies. LandScan, which refines the best available census data using geographic information system and remote sensing technologies, has emerged as an international community standard for disaster response, humanitarian relief, sustainable development and environmental protection. Today Land-Scan is one of the most licensed of ORNL technologies. In fiscal-year 2005, numerous organizations obtained commercial, revenue-generating licenses from ORNL. High-profile users include National Geographic, TIME magazine, the Washington Post, and New York Times. In FY2005, UT-Battelle granted 123 non-commercial LandScan licenses to the United Nations, government agencies and universities worldwide for humanitarian, research and educational purposes. Already this year more than 100 non-fee-bearing licenses to LandScan Global have been issued. Research using LandScan has resulted in publications on sub-jects of interest to policy decision makers such as predicted effects of global climate change. Land-Scan truly has a positive human influence.
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