Maps & datasets
Night lights
NASA Black Marble VIIRS night lights (annual composite). Free hosted NASA GIBS WMTS raster, same host as the app satellite basemaps (zero server). Opt-in, off by default. Display-only. Rendering: RasterTileLayer.tsx; source: src/lib/sources/megalayers/raster-tiles/viirs-nightlights.ts.
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NASA Black Marble VIIRS night lights (annual composite). Free hosted NASA GIBS WMTS raster, same host as the app satellite basemaps (zero server). Opt-in, off by default. Display-only. Rendering: RasterTileLayer.tsx; source: src/lib/sources/megalayers/raster-tiles/viirs-nightlights.ts.
Coverage (inferred)
Worldwide
Freshness
See source
License
Public domain
Source
NASA
Provenance
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Night lights
Source
NASA Black Marble - VIIRS night lights (Public domain)
Method
Published dataset
License
Public domainCommercial OK
Attribution
Night lights: NASA Black Marble (VIIRS/Suomi-NPP), NASA EOSDIS GIBS (public domain)
Coordinate system
EPSG:4326
Freshness
See source
Cite as
cartian:layer:ml-viirs-nightlights@ref-bf780a8d
Version
vref-bf780a8d
Pin
As-of referencefrozen 2026-07-18