#VIIRS

Karan Bhasin

karanbhasin95

This is China's nighttime lights intensity from NOAA's VIIRS.The first image is of April 2014 while the second is of April 2019. Brazil in April 2013 versus Brazil in April

UW-Madison CIMSS

UWCIMSS

Every #VIIRS overpass captured the #AuroraBorealis last night! Sharing multiple images via a thread with some #citizenscience pics from #Saskatchewan, #Manitoba, and even #Wyoming! This #NOAA20 image was acquired at

Greg B. Pool

GregBPool

1/ Overnight we've see new fire detected on the north-facing ridge above Sleepy Hollow just outside of Carmel Valley Village. Here's VIIRS looking north from the leading edge of the

Christopher Anderson

earth_chris

The current fires in the #SantaCruzMountains (the CZU August Lightning Complex; https://rb.gy/owbdvk ) are devastating, but may help people unfamiliar with wildfire detection and monitoring better interpret active fire maps. Fires

Sam Asher

thesamasher

Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP?An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 1/14TL;DR: don’t trust

robwormald

robwormald

Got Google Earth fired up and plugged into the MODIS fire data. Dark Red/Red are basically actively burning (activity in the last 6 hours), yellow shows the last 6 days

Christopher Kyba

skyglowberlin

We’ve just published the coolest experiment I’ve done in years: https://doi.org/10.1177/1477153520958463Want to know why the brightness of this city is different in these two satellite images? Read the thread

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