How to use the VIIRS satellite data for night time lights.

pip install -r requirements.txt

1. Downloading data

   Before you can use VIIRS data do do anything interesting, you must download the VIIRS data.

2. Working with data

   After downloading the data, you'll surely want to do something interesting with it. We have written a tutorial with examples of how to look at data for particular geographical regions, as a starting point.

   We would love to see people explore things like:

• Find counties with the most change in light data, see how it correlates with other growth metrics
• More generally, see how metrics such as population and income relate to light data
• Look into World Bank ICP/PPP, population, and infrastructure data. Areas with low PPP, high population density, and recent infrastructure grants should show corresponding increase in NTL (night time lights). If this is not the case, could it be potential fraud?

1. Visualizing data

   We also have an example of an end-to-end website that lets you visualize VIIRS data (and other county data) for different counties and time periods, by imposing the data a map.