
Overview
Light Every Night - World Bank Nighttime Light Data – provides open access to all nightly imagery and data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day-Night Band (VIIRS DNB) from 2012-2020 and the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) from 1992-2013. The underlying data are sourced from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archive. Additional processing by the University of Michigan enables access in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF format (COG) and search using the Spatial Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC) standard. The data is published and openly available under the terms of the World Bank’s open data license.
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- Description
- Light Every Night dataset of all VIIRS DNB and DMSP-OLS nighttime satellite data
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::globalnightlight
- AWS region
- us-east-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://globalnightlight/
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Trevor Monroe tmonroe@worldbank.org ; Benjamin P. Stewart bstewart@worldbankgroup.org ; Brian Min brianmin@umich.edu ; Kim Baugh kim.baugh@noaa.gov
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World Bank - Light Every Night was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/wb-light-every-night .