Light Every Night
Light Every Night - World Bank Nightime Light Data - provides open access to all nighttime imagery and Day-Night Band data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS DNB) from 2012-2020 and the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP- OLS) Operational Linescan System from 1992-2013. The underlying data is obtained from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archive. Further processing by the University of Michigan enables access in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format and search using the Spatial Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC) standard. The data is published and openly available under the terms of the World Bank open data license.
Organization
World Bank
Temporal coverage
2000 - 2020
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