World Bank - Light Every Night

Description

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.

Update Frequency

Quarterly

License

World Bank Open Database License (ODbL)

Documentation

https://worldbank.github.io/OpenNightLights/wb-light-every-night-readme.html

Managed By

See all datasets managed by World Bank Group.

Contact

Trevor Monroe tmonroe@worldbank.org; Benjamin P. Stewart bstewart@worldbankgroup.org; Brian Min brianmin@umich.edu; Kim Baugh kim.baugh@noaa.gov

How to Cite

World Bank - Light Every Night was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/wb-light-every-night.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Open Nighttime Lights by Daynan Crull, Trevor Monroe
  

Tools & Applications

• Global Scale Nightlight Time Series Dataset by Alameen Najjar
  
• High Resolution Electricity Access Indicators (HREA) - Settlement-level measures of electricity access, reliability, and usage. by Brian Min, Zachary O'Keeffe
  
• Twenty Years of India Lights by Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Brian Min, Anand Thakker, Christopher Elvidge
  

Publications

• Detection of Rural Electrification in Africa using DMSP-OLS Night Lights Imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing by Brian Min, Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Ousmane Fall Sarr, Alassane Agalassou.
  
• Mainstreaming Disruptive Technologies in Energy. World Bank Report. 2019 by Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Brian Min, Olaf Veerman, Kimberly Baugh
  
• Mapping city lights with nighttime data from the DMSP Operational Linescan System. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 63(6)727-734. by Elvidge, C.D., Baugh, K.E., Kihn, E.A., Kroehl, H.W. and Davis, E.R.
  
• Nighttime lights compositing using the VIIRS day-night band - Preliminary results. Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network 35 (2013)70-86. by Kimberly Baugh, Feng-Chi Hsu, Christopher D. Elvidge, and Mikhail Zhizhin.
  
• Power and the Vote - Elections and Electricity in the Developing World. Cambridge. 2015. by Brian Min