lightson: Download and Analyse Nighttime Lights Satellite Data

Downloads and processes nighttime lights satellite data from the 'NASA' 'VIIRS' Black Marble product suite (daily, monthly, and annual composites; Roman et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.017>) served by the 'LAADS DAAC' archive <https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov>, and from the Indian Space Research Organisation's 'Bhuvan' nighttime lights portal. Provides zonal statistics over arbitrary polygons, returning tidy region-by-time panels, along with plotting helpers.

Package details

AuthorSaket Choudhary [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5202-7633>)
MaintainerSaket Choudhary <saketc@iitb.ac.in>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.2.0
URL https://lightson.saketlab.org  https://github.com/saketlab/lightson 
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("lightson")

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lightson documentation built on Nov. 3, 2026, 5:07 p.m.