Shown below is a collection of famous NASA images that are often called "satellite photos of Earth at night." They aren't really "photos". Instead, they are images that were compiled using data from a sensor aboard NASA’s Suomi satellite. Each white dot on the maps represents the light...
World City Satellite Images Satellite Images of World Cities: We have selected and scaled 64 cities to show the city and its surrounding environment.Oil Fields from Space Oil from Space at Night: These night views of Earth from the Suomi satellite show oil field illumination and natural gas ...
The new, higher resolution composite image of Earth at night was released at a news conference at theAmerican Geophysical Unionmeeting in San Francisco. This and other VIIRS day-night band images are providing researchers with valuable data for a wide variety of previously unseen or poorly seen e...
NASA has just releaseda new set of composite satellite photos showing what Earth looks like at night. The gorgeous images feature glowing lights across the planet showing where civilization is found. Satellite views of Earth at night have been published once or twice every decade, but NASA scient...
A satellite sensor that can see in the dark is revealing new information for meteorologists, firefighters, search teams and researchers worldwide
Each Landsat satellite images the Earth’s surface along the satellite’s ground track in a 185 kilometer-wide (115 mile-wide) swath as the satellite moves in a descending orbit (moving from north to south) over the sunlit side of the Earth. Each satellite crosses every point on the Earth...
Spatial distribution of building energy use in the United States through satellite imagery of the earth at nightBuilding energy useNighttime lightsSatellite imagesSpatial and temporal energy use mapsDespite the importance of geospatial analysis of energy use in buildings, the data available for such ...
Coloring Panchromatic Nighttime Satellite Images: Comparing the Performance of Several Machine Learning Methods Artificial light-at-night (ALAN), emitted from the ground and visible from space, marks human presence on earth. Since the launch of the Suomi National Pol... N Rybnikova,BA Portnov,EM...
Learn where to find, how to view and download historical satellite images to analyze the changes of our planet over time and predict its future.
Blue Marble and Earth at Night Layers (from NASA) Screenshot of NASA's Blue Marble layer (left) and Earth at Night layer (right) in Google Earth. These layers make a great background to overlay other imagery or data onto. The Blue Marble imagery, from August 2004, comes from here....