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🌌 VIIRS Nighttime lights intensity
Remote sensing of nighttime light emissions offers a unique perspective for investigations into human behaviors. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments aboard the Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 satellites provide global daily measurements of nighttime light.
Layer Details
- Categories: Energy, Demography | Social
- Unit: nW/cm²/sr
- Data type: univariate
Sources
- Earth Observation Group © 2021. https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/#reference
- C. D. Elvidge,K. E. Baugh,M. Zhizhin,and F.-C. Hsu,“Why VIIRS data are superior to DMSP for mapping nighttime lights,” Asia-Pacific Advanced Network 35,vol. 35,p. 62,2013.
- C. D. Elvidge,M. Zhizhin,T. Ghosh,F-C. Hsu,"Annual time series of global VIIRS nighttime lights derived from monthly averages: 2012 to 2019",Remote Sensing (In press)
- Numbers © Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
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