Annual Summary of Artificial Light At Night from VIIRS/S-NPP at CONUS County and Census Tract V1 (ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS) at GES DISC

Description

This product provides detailed information about the satellite-based data on artificial light at night (ALAN). The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) nighttime lights (NTL) product (VNP46A4, DOI: 10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A4.001 ) in NASA’s Black Marble suite is used to derive annual summary of ALAN levels throughout the CONUS at both county and tract level for the period of 2012-2020. The PI Dr. Qian Xiao is a member of NASA Heath and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST).

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FTZY5MHFMYLKQ
34 ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS_1.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS_1.png
21 Use earthdata search to find the dataset https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS
21 https://haqast.org/
21 Access the data via HTTPS. https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/HAQAST/ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS.1/
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS_1/summary
33 README_ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS.pdf https://acdisc.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/HAQAST/ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS.1/doc/README_ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS.pdf

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  • human-dimensions
  • visible-wavelengths
  • atmosphere
  • natural-hazards
  • spectral-engineering
  • air-quality
  • earth-science

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