Published December 31, 2024 | Version v1
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Global Electricity Access Dataset from NASA Black Marble Nighttime Lights

  • 1. ROR icon Universities Space Research Association
  • 2. EDMO icon University of Maryland
  • 3. EDMO icon National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center

Description

Associated paper:

  • S. Chakraborty, O. Alexander, N. Kittner, Z. Wang, A Global Stocktake on Electricity Access and Gaps from NASA Black Marble Nighttime Lights, 2025, AGU Earth’s Future, 13, e2024EF005916. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005916

Data layers:

Base Dataset: gridded_dataset_1lmin_0.tif

Likely pre-2012 flag: gridded_dataset_likely_flag.tif

Persistance flag: gridded_dataset_1lmin_pers_final.tif

For interpreting dataset with flag layers see SI here

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