Nasa has released new high definition satellite images of earth s night lights for the first time since 2012.
Black marble earth at night.
A global composite image constructed using cloud free night images from a new nasa and national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa satellite shows the glow of natural and human built phenomena across the.
Night light maps open up new applications.
This composite image of the earth as a black marble shows asia and australia in 2016.
By live science staff 05 december 2012.
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.
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.