NSNSD CONUS sALR Light Pollution Model 2024
Vanderbosch Z and Natural Sounds Night Skies Division. 2025. NSNSD CONUS sALR Light Pollution Model 2024. National Park Service. Continental United States https://doi.org/10.57830/2314373
This raster dataset provides a simplified model of light pollution across the continental U.S. in units of all-sky average artificial to natural light ratios for the year 2024. The model is generated using the 2024 annual cloud-free composite of VIIRS day/night band satellite imagery (Version 2.2) produced by the Earth Observation Group. The modeling process is described in Duriscoe et al. 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.04.028).
- Type
- Raster Dataset
- Authors
- Vanderbosch, Zachary; Natural Sounds Night Skies Division
- Date of Issue
- 2025-07-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.57830/2314373
- Keywords
- arcgis, brightness, light pollution, lights, Natural Sound and Night Skies, night skies, nighttime, python, satellite, sky quality, VIIRS
- License
- Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal