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

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    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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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2650219940-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2023-02-16
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-02-16
    Category HAQAST, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Qian Xiao, Jun Wang, Cici Bauer, Meng Zhou, Yue Lyu, Jiachen Lu, and Kehe Zhang . 2023-03-01. ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS. Version 1. Annual Summary of Artificial Light At Night from VIIRS/S-NPP at CONUS County and Census Tract. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://doi.org/10.5067/TZY5MHFMYLKQ. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS_1.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator Qian Xiao, Jun Wang, Cici Bauer, Meng Zhou, Yue Lyu, Jiachen Lu, and Kehe Zhang
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview File https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS_1.png
    Harvest Object Id e5b5c641-18af-44e8-ae29-41283b97df3e
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/TZY5MHFMYLKQ
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -129.9979 20.00208 -60.00208 49.99792
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    Series Name ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4272ee307ee55cea276f2e7d637b5fb6c2ca3bb172b48c0fd52ac9c9ac1645f3
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z/2020-12-31T23:59:59Z

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