The Nighttime Lights of the World
- Author(s)
- National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center, United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and United States Group on Earth Observations
- Description
- 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.
- Publisher
- National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
- Place(s)
- Earth (Planet)
- Subject(s)
- Light sources, Flare gas systems (Chemical engineering), Fires, Auroras, and Human settlements
- Held by
- Stanford
- More details at
- https://purl.stanford.edu/md046mk5023
- Use and reproduction
- This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
- Copyright
- This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.
