VIIRS Night-time Lights, Annual (EOG)

Annual VIIRS night-time radiance from the Earth Observation Group, 2012–2025, summed over each district with background and fires masked (VNL V2.1 to 2021, V2.2 from 2022).

Published 2012–2025 · 2 indicators · mapped to 808 districts · platform version 2026-10-25

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Night-light Brightness

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Mean night-time radiance over the district in 2025 (nW/cm²/sr), from the EOG VIIRS annual composite with background and fires masked.

Caveat: Light is a proxy for settlement and activity, not income. V2.2 composite; 2022–2025 are not strictly comparable with V2.1 years.

Night-light Growth, 2013–2025

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Percent change in the district's sum of night-time lights from 2013 to 2025, from EOG VIIRS annual composites. Blank where the 2013 sum is under 30.

Caveat: Crosses two product changes: stray-light correction from 2014 and V2.1 → V2.2 in 2022. Blank on a tiny 2013 base, where percentages run to extremes.

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Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines, 2012–2025, VIIRS Nighttime Lights annual composites (VNL V2.1 and V2.2), https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/. Published under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. District sums derived by Spatial India.