Light Pollution Temporal Analysis
Remote sensing study project analyzing environmental change - Light Pollution and population as a contributing factor.
The study areas selected for analysis- Bangalore and Pune, India.
The time-span selected - 5 consecutive years (2013-2018, without 2016 due to unreliable data) of satellite images from the last day of December each year.
data sources:
- Earth Observation Group, NOAA/NCEI - Version 1 VIIRS Day/Night Band Nighttime Lights. retreived from https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/viirs/download_dnb_composites.html
- Schiavina, Marcello; Freire, Sergio; MacManus, Kytt (2019): GHS population grid multitemporal (1975-1990- 2000-2015), R2019A. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] doi:10.2905/0C6B9751- A71F-4062-830B-43C9F432370F PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/0c6b9751-a71f-4062-830b-43c9f432370f
- Population data retrieved from - http://www.indiaonlinepages.com/population
- Light Pollution Info Map - https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=4&lat=5759860&lon=1619364&layers=B0FFFFFTFFFFFFFF
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