Nighttime Lights
Overview
NASA’s Black Marble represents a suite of two Nighttime Lights (NTL) products that offer vast improvements in sensor resolution and calibration over the previous era of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System’s nighttime lights image products. Derived from the SNPP VIIRS instrument’s Day-Night Band (DNB) sensor, both products enable us to better monitor both the magnitude and signature of nighttime phenomena, and anthropogenic sources of light emissions. The first product offers daily, top-of-atmosphere, at-sensor nighttime radiance at 15 arc-second resolution, and the second product provides a daily NTL product at 500-m resolution that is corrected for lunar bi-directional reflectance distribution function, atmospheric, thermal, terrain, and straylight effects.
Product Information
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Product Details
| Product Name | Suomi NPP Prod. ID/Link |
|---|---|
| Daily Gridded Day Night Band 500m Linear Lat Lon Grid Night | VNP46A1 |
| Gap-Filled Lunar BRDF-Adjusted Nighttime Lights Daily L3 Global 500m Linear Lat Lon Grid | VNP46A2 |
All LAADS Nighttime Lights data products are accessible via the LAADS product search page.