If Land Required Artificial Light

A two-color visualization of world population densities as represented by nighttime lights

October 7, 2009

Data VisualizationProcessingPopulationSatellite DataITP

A two color visualization of world population densities as represented by nighttime lights.

World population density visualization using nighttime lights
Global visualization showing population density through artificial light emissions

Due to the large number of data points (205,947), the software has been optimized to do region-specific redrawing.

This data set is too large for web viewing.The source code and data are available here.

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