Black marble project was named after nasa s suomi npp project black marble is our latest development.
Black marble night lighting.
A highly configurable and the most advanced night lighting system created to date providing global and native worldwide road network coverage to all major simulation platforms.
Nasa has released new high definition satellite images of earth s night lights for the first time since 2012.
Combine that with real world road data and you have a product that s destined to become a best seller.
The nasa black marble algorithm produces cloud free imagery that have been corrected for atmospheric terrain lunar brdf thermal and straylight effects.
Nasa s black marble nighttime lights product suite vnp46 is available at 500 m resolution since january 2012 with data from the visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs day night band dnb onboard the suomi national polar orbiting platform snpp.