indialights: Tools to Work with the 'India Lights' 'API'
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The 'India Lights' 'API' shows light output at night for 20 years, from 1993 to 2013, for 600,000 villages across India. The 'Defense Meteorological Satellite Program' ('DMSP'), run by the 'U.S.' 'Department of Defense', has taken pictures of the Earth every night for 20 years. Researchers at the 'University of Michigan' used the 'DMSP' images to extract the data and provide it in tabular form. The 'India Lights' 'API' provides the data at convenient endpoints that allows you to look at specific time intervals and administration levels. Tools are provided to query these 'API' endpoints.