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VIIRS Night Lights (2012 - 2021)⚓︎

Table Summary⚓︎

A new consistently processed time series of annual global VIIRS nighttime lights has been produced from monthly cloud-free average radiance grids spanning 2012 to 2020

File Metadata⚓︎

Table Information (SHRID)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
SHRID viirs_annual_shrid.dta shrid2, year

Variable Information (SHRID)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
viirs_annual_min Minimum NL detected in polygon 0% 11,529,100
viirs_annual_max Maximum NL detected in polygon 0% 11,529,100
viirs_annual_mean Mean NL detected in polygon 0% 11,529,100
⭐ viirs_annual_sum Total NL detected in polygon 0% 11,529,100
viirs_annual_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 11,529,100
category Raster masking category: average-masked or median-masked nan% nan
year Year 0% 11,529,100

Table Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
Subdistrict viirs_annual_pc11subdist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id, pc11_subdistrict_id, year

Variable Information (Subdistrict)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
viirs_annual_min Minimum NL detected in polygon 0% 119,380
viirs_annual_max Maximum NL detected in polygon 0% 119,380
viirs_annual_mean Mean NL detected in polygon 0% 119,380
⭐ viirs_annual_sum Total NL detected in polygon 0% 119,380
viirs_annual_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 119,380
category Raster masking category: average-masked or median-masked nan% nan
year Year 0% 119,380

Table Information (District)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
District viirs_annual_pc11dist.dta pc11_state_id, pc11_district_id, year

Variable Information (District)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
viirs_annual_min Minimum NL detected in polygon 0% 12,800
viirs_annual_max Maximum NL detected in polygon 0% 12,800
viirs_annual_mean Mean NL detected in polygon 0% 12,800
⭐ viirs_annual_sum Total NL detected in polygon 0% 12,800
viirs_annual_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 12,800
category Raster masking category: average-masked or median-masked nan% nan
year Year 0% 12,800

Table Information (AC07)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2007 Assembly Constituency viirs_annual_con07.dta ac07_id, year

Variable Information (AC07)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
viirs_annual_min Minimum NL detected in polygon 0% 81,600
viirs_annual_max Maximum NL detected in polygon 0% 81,600
viirs_annual_mean Mean NL detected in polygon 0% 81,600
⭐ viirs_annual_sum Total NL detected in polygon 0% 81,600
viirs_annual_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 81,600
category Raster masking category: average-masked or median-masked nan% nan
year Year 0% 81,600

Table Information (AC08)⚓︎

Aggregation Level File Name Unique Identifiers
2008 Assembly Constituency viirs_annual_con08.dta ac08_id, year

Variable Information (AC08)⚓︎

Variable Name Description Missing % Non-missing count
viirs_annual_min Minimum NL detected in polygon 0% 82,360
viirs_annual_max Maximum NL detected in polygon 0% 82,360
viirs_annual_mean Mean NL detected in polygon 0% 82,360
⭐ viirs_annual_sum Total NL detected in polygon 0% 82,360
viirs_annual_num_cells Total pixels in polygon 0% 82,360
category Raster masking category: average-masked or median-masked nan% nan
year Year 0% 82,360

Note

  • Missing %: Proportion of observations with missing data
  • Zero %: Proportion of observations with zero values
  • Canary variable: The ⭐ indicates the canary variable for imputation, see this link for more details about the imputation algorithm.

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