File:City_Lights_of_the_United_States_2012.jpg
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DescriptionCity Lights of the United States 2012.jpg |
English: NASA image acquired April 18 - October 23, 2012
This image of the United States of America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the new 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 and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires, and reflected moonlight. Instrument: Suomi NPP - VIIRS Projection: Albers equal-area conic, WGS84 datum, standard parallels 29.5°N and 44.5°N, central meridian 96°W, origin latitude 23°N On this image one pixel is (737.19 × 737.19)m² |
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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79800 for GeoTIFF original file. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8247975848/in/set-72157632172101342/ for quicker access to the jpeg |
Author | NASA Earth Observatory |
Other versions | File:City Lights 2012 - Flat map.jpg |
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Compression scheme | LZW |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 12:51, 5 December 2012 |
Color space | sRGB |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:58, 29 July 2005 |
Date metadata was last modified | 07:51, 5 December 2012 |
Urgency | 1 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:048011740720681188C6CC0A07FF2C97 |
IIM version | 4 |