Multiyear Nightime Light Intensity

Temporally calibrated DMSP-OLS NTL time series data from 1992-2013; and converted NTL time series from the VIIRS data (2014-2018) Spatial resolution: 30 arc-seconds (~1km)

figshare.com-harmonized_ntl-1.1.1. Modified 2021-07-12T20:47:57

Resources | Packages | Documentation| Contacts| References

Documentation

This dataset provides reference links to each of the annual noghtime lights images from a collection of images built from DMSP and VIIRS data, for the years 1992 to 2018.

Documentation Links

• Documentation Page
• Research paper
• Download page

Contacts

• Wrangler

  Eric Busboom, Civic Knowledge

• Creator

  Xuecao Li, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University

• Creator

  Yuyu Zhou, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University

• Creator

  Min Xhao, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University

• Creator

  Xia Zhao, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University

Data Dictionary

References

Urls used in the creation of this data package.

• ntl2008. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2008
• ntl2009. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2009
• ntl2010. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2010
• ntl2011. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2011
• ntl2012. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2012
• ntl2013. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2013
• ntl2014. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2014
• ntl2015. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2015
• ntl2016. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2016
• ntl2017. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2017
• ntl2018. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2018
• ntl1992. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1992
• ntl1993. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1993
• ntl1994. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1994
• ntl1995. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1995
• ntl1996. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1996
• ntl1997. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1997
• ntl1998. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1998
• ntl1999. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 1999
• ntl2000. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2000
• ntl2001. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2001
• ntl2002. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2002
• ntl2003. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2003
• ntl2004. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2004
• ntl2005. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2005
• ntl2006. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2006
• ntl2007. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2007
• ntl2013. Wordlwide night times lights raster, 2013

Packages

• s3 s3://library.metatab.org/figshare.com-harmonized_ntl-1.1.1.csv
• csv http://library.metatab.org/figshare.com-harmonized_ntl-1.1.1.csv
• source https://github.com/sandiegodata-projects/chartercitiesinstitute.org-sez

Accessing Data in Vanilla Pandas

import pandas as pd

Accessing Package in Metapack

import metapack as mp
pkg = mp.open_package('http://library.metatab.org/figshare.com-harmonized_ntl-1.1.1.csv')

# Create Dataframes