Twenty Years Of India Lights

From 1993 to 2013 the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) took nightly pictures of Bharat from space. The University of Michigan, inwards collaboration amongst the World Bank, has examined all 20 years of these satellite images to analyze how lite output has changed across Bharat during this time.

India Night Lights is a projection from the University of Michigan as well as the World Bank to visualize as well as supply access to this nighttime lights data. The Bharat Night Lights projection includes an interactive map which allows yous to compare a nighttime lite persuasion of Bharat for whatever 2 dissimilar dates. This allows users to brand a straight comparing of the sum of lite measured inwards 600,000 dissimilar villages across the province for whatever 2 dissimilar dates during the 20 years of available data.

As good equally the interactive map Bharat Night Lights includes a publish of visualizations of dissimilar 'Stories' which emerge from the data. At the minute these stories include a information visualization of how Diwali lights upward Bharat every year, the touching on of electricity evolution projects inwards Bharat as well as how electricity is administered inwards Uttar Pradesh.

The Bharat Night Lights Project also includes an API which provides costless access to India's nighttime lite data. This allows developers to access the lite output at nighttime of 600,000 villages across Bharat for the 20 years from 1993 to 2013.