Night Lights

Night lights.  from the Air Force DMSP satellite, for 2003.   This is Afghanistan, and its darkness rivals countries like North Korea.

• https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/shedding-light-night-lights-data-dmsp-vs-viirs
• Easiest access: https://wvs.earthdata.nasa.gov/
• Other options
  • 2020, VIIRS daily night light composite: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/viirs/download_ut_mos.html  The files are very large, and you will have to figure out how to use them.
  • https://payneinstitute.mines.edu/eog/nighttime-lights/
  • 2012 and 2016 data: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/NightLights/page3.php  Get Geotiffs, ~750 m resolution (also available, 3 km and 0.1 degrees).  Lights on a colored background.
  • 1992-2013: http://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/dmsp/downloadV4composites.html.  Just the lights; annual images, some with two satellites. should be opened as a Grid/DEM. 30" spacing
• Online, with great zoom in: https://blue-marble.de/nightlights/2019  and https://blue-marble.de/nightlights/2021

You can display one year's data, either:

• File, Physical Geography labs
• Climate options

Last revision 8/1/2017