Nasa Black Marble Map
New global maps of earth at night provide the clearest ever composite view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet.
Nasa black marble map. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Night light maps open up new applications. They have provided a broad beautiful picture showing how humans have shaped the planet and lit up the darkness. Night light maps open up new applications black marble.
Spheres and animations earth at night. By removing natural and stray light sources researchers have provided a clearer picture of the human footprint on earth and opened up new opportunities in disaster response demographics and applied research. Night light maps open up new applications black marble. This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new suomi npp satellite which has at least 10 times better light resolving power than previous night viewing satellites.
The nasa team is also now automating nighttime imagery processing to make the data available within hours of acquisition potentially aiding short term weather forecasting and disaster response efforts. Out of the blue and into the black. Nasa goddard space flight center. Black marble uses imagery from nasa s suomi satellite.
Therefore nasa introduced black marble in 2012 which complements its blue marble release of data that has become very popular with scientists and the public. Along with their primary purpose of supporting the short term weather prediction and disaster response communities they also provide new data for tracking wildfires gas flares and light pollution and have numerous socioeconomic uses such as proxying economic activity monitoring changes in. Global map downloads 2016 color. Published december 6 2012.
Earth at night black marble 2016 color maps. View the 2012 black marble imagery. The black marble data provide resolution up to 500m giving a global perspective at night. Atmosphere land human presence remote sensing.
Satellite images of earth at night often referred to as night lights have been a curiosity for the public and a tool of fundamental research for at least 25 years. Nasa goddard space flight center. Called black marble the interactive map combines composite shots from nasa s satellites showing points of nighttime illumination across the globe and tracking how they ve changed in recent years. Out of the blue and into the black.