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Title: The Nighttime Lights of the World

Contributors:

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