10.5880/GFZ.1.4.2019.001 Stare, Jurij Jurij Stare Deneb Geoinformation Solutions Kyba, Christopher Christopher Kyba 0000-0001-7014-1843 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany GFZ Data Services 2019 light emissions light pollution artificial light at night web application Earth Observation Satellites > DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) Earth Observation Satellites > Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) > SUOMI-NPP Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Spectrometers/Radiometers > Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers > OLS Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Spectrometers/Radiometers > Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers > VIIRS EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING monitoring > pollution monitoring Kyba, Christopher GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany 2019-01-15 Software 10.3390/rs10121964 10.1080/01431161.2017.1342050 10.3390/rs70100001 10.3390/rs5126717 https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/download.html http://www.geoessential.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/GEOEssential-D5.4-Final.pdf European Union Public Licence (EUPL) v. 1.2 Radiance Light Trends is a GIS web application that is designed to quickly display information about radiance trends at a specific location (available online at https://lighttrends.lightpollutionmap.info). It uses data from two satellite systems, DMSP-OLS and VIIRS DNB, with data processing by NOAA. New VIIRS layers are added automatically as soon as NOAA makes them available to public.


The web application allows the user to examine changes in nighttime light emissions (nearly) worldwide, from 1992 up until last month. From 1992 to 2013, data comes from the Operational Linescan System of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites. From 2012 to the present, data comes from the Day/Night Band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument (VIIRS DNB). Due to significant differences in the instruments (as described by Miller et al., 2013), it is not possible to have a single record running from 1992 to today. A description of the VIIRS DNB night lights product used in this application was published by Elvidge et al. (2017), the data used in the app can be accessed from the NOAA Earth Observation Group (EOG) Website: https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/download.html
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