VIIRS Night-time Lights (EOG)

Satellite-measured night-time radiance, used as a proxy for economic activity where district-level GDP does not exist. Two epochs: 2012 and 2024.

Published 2012 & 2024 · mapped to 808 districts · platform version 2026-09-20

This source ships as a raster overlay rather than as district-level indicator columns, so it has no indicator table. Toggle it on the map to view it.

Using this data

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Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines, 2012 and 2024, VIIRS Nighttime Lights annual composite (VNL V2), https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/. Published under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Not a NASA product — the annual composites are EOG’s derived product.