[Esip-sustainabledm] nightlight pollution data

[Robert Downs]

SEDAC offers various data products that use VIIRS data. For example, see
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/search/data?contains=lights

Thanks,

Bob

Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and Development
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:21 PM Margaret O'Brien via Esip-sustainabledm <
esip-sustainabledm at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hello Amy -
> This is way out of my area of expertise, so I asked on the slack channel
> for the ESIP federation (https://esip-all.slack.com). Here is the advice
> I got
>
> First, there was a suggestion to contact your local, regional, or national
> astronomy club. They have lots of resources for light pollution.
>
> Second, someone suggested that the Colorado School of Mines makes the raw
> and processed data from VIIRS available. It's not the specific "light
> pollution" product exactly but its ia night time lights product.
> https://eogdata.mines.edu/download_dnb_composites.html
>
> I hope one of these sources will help you. If you need more information on
> light data in general, I suggest looking up more groups in ESIP.
>
> best of luck,
> Margaret
>
>
> Margaret O'Brien
> ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322
> Information Management
> Marine Science Institute, UCSB
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 3:26 PM Koshoffer, Amy (koshofae) via
> Esip-sustainabledm <esip-sustainabledm at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there free available data for nightlight pollution for 2020.  I am
>> working with a research group that accessed the NLP dataset from NOAA’s
>> NCEI for 2018 and 2019, but can no longer get access due to the fact that
>> the Colorado School of Mines (Payne Institute for Public Policy) took over
>> generation and access of the composites. Our institution does not have
>> access to this resource, and cannot afford the $10,000 price tag for the
>> tiles sought.  I appreciate any help to find this kind of data.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> *Amy Koshoffer (she/her)*
>>
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