Title: The Nighttime Lights of the World
- Not specified
- 1997
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
- National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
- United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- United States Group on Earth Observations
Dates
- Coverage: 1997
Publishers
- National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
Summary
The Nighttime Lights of the World dataset contains the first satellite-based global inventory of human settlements, derived from nighttime data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). The DMSP-OLS has the unique capability to observe faint sources of visible-near infrared emissions present at the Earth's surface, including cities, towns, villages, gas flares, and fires. NGDC has developed algorithms for producing georeferenced fire and nighttime lights prod System requirements: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software that reads ESRI shapefile format.
Subjects
- Earth (Planet)
- Light sources
- Flare gas systems (Chemical engineering)
- Fires
- Auroras
- Human settlements
- Other
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)
- Geometry: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center, United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Group on Earth Observations. The Nighttime Lights of the World. National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center. https://purl.stanford.edu/md046mk5023
Languages
- English