Light Pollution Map
Night View of Earth - The night side of our planet twinkles with light, and the first thing to stand out is the cities. "Nothing tells us more about the spread of humans across the Earth than city lights," asserts Chris Elvidge, a NOAA scientist who has studied them for 20 years. This new global view and animation of Earth's city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took satellite 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface and islands. Click on the link below to gain access to the data as well as collections of SQM readings worldwide.
Source: NASA Earth Observatory (Black Marble, 2012)
Light Pollution Map and SQM Readings
Geo Data from Globe At Night program: National Optical Astronomy Observatory