Nasa has released new high definition satellite images of earth s night lights for the first time since 2012.
Black marble night lighting.
Nasa s black marble nighttime lights product suite vnp46 is available at 500 m resolution since january 2012 with data from the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs day night band dnb onboard the suomi national polar orbiting platform snpp.
The corrected nighttime radiances resulting in a superior retrieval of nighttime lights at short time scales and a reduction in background noise enable quantitative analyses of daily seasonal and annual variations.
A highly configurable and the most advanced night lighting system created to date providing global and native worldwide road network coverage to all major simulation platforms.
Combine that with real world road data and you have a product that s destined to become a best seller.
The nasa black marble algorithm produces cloud free imagery that have been corrected for atmospheric terrain lunar brdf thermal and straylight effects.