United States Satellite Map Night

This image of the continental united states at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the suomi npp satellite in april and october 2012.

United states satellite map night.

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Gps fixedfind nearest station. Provides directions interactive maps and satellite aerial imagery of many countries. The ineractive map makes it easy to navitgate around the globe. Since colleagues from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and nasa released a new earth at night map in 2012 román and teammates at nasa s earth observing satellite data and information system eosdis have been working to integrate nighttime data into nasa s global imagery browse services gibs and worldview mapping tools.

Can also search by keyword such as type of business. The east coast of the united states has seen both decreases and increases in the brightness of night lights between 2012 and 2016. Strong lights occur in a strand that includes washington dc philadelphia new jersey new york city and boston. The image was made possible by the satellite s day night band of the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near infrared.

It took over nine days in april 2012 and thirteen days in october 2012 during 312 orbits at 824 kilometers 512 miles to capture the whole earth. The main image of the earth at night 2012 was captured by nasa using the suomi national polar orbiting partnership suomi npp satellite. Satellite photo of the united states at night this map shows the geographic distribution of night time lights in the united states canada mexico and the caribbean. Zoom earth shows live weather satellite images updated in near real time and the best high resolution aerial views of the earth in a fast zoomable map.