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Nighttime Lights Data Access and Tools
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument's day/night band nighttime lights image layer shows Earth’s surface and atmosphere using a sensor designed to capture low-light emission sources under varying illumination conditions.
- Discover VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB) Level-1 products using Earthdata Search
- Interactively explore VIIRS Nighttime imagery in NASA Worldview
NASA's Black Marble is a daily calibrated, corrected, and validated product suite that enables effective use of nighttime lights data for scientific observations.
- Discover Black Marble VNP46A1 products using Earthdata Search
- Discover Black Marble VNP46A2 products using Earthdata Search
- Explore Black Marble products at LAADS DAAC
- Interactively explore Black Marble imagery in Worldview
- Interactively explore Black Marble Blue/Yellow Composite imagery in Worldview
To learn more about Black Marble data and applications, see the NASA Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) program: Introduction to NASA's "Black Marble" Night Lights Data.
Nighttime Lights Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
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| Earthdata Search | Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings. | |
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| FIRMS | The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. | |
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| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | |
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Featured Nighttime Lights Observation Method: Black Marble
NASA's Black Marble is a daily calibrated, corrected, and validated product suite that enables effective use of nighttime lights data for scientific observations.
New data product from NASA’s LANCE will enhance the ability to determine whether changes in nighttime lights are the result of power outages.
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Image captured Sep 26, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 platform.
Image captured on July 9, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.
Image captured on June 27, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.
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