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BasicUrbanIntermediate
Nighttime Lights Urban Growth
Track urban expansion using VIIRS nighttime lights time series.
Pipeline (1 steps)
- Track urban expansion using VIIRS nighttime lights time series.
Datasets
- viirs-ntl
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Outputs the script produces
map Map layers
map Time series chart
map Export GeoTIFF
map Zonal stats table
// Nighttime Lights Urban Growth
var ntl = ee.ImageCollection('NOAA/VIIRS/DNB/MONTHLY_V1/VCMSLCFG')
.filterDate(startDate, endDate).filterBounds(aoi).select('avg_rad');
var result = ntl.mean().clip(aoi);# Nighttime Lights Urban Growth
import ee
ntl = (ee.ImageCollection('NOAA/VIIRS/DNB/MONTHLY_V1/VCMSLCFG')
.filterDate(start_date, end_date).filterBounds(aoi).select('avg_rad'))
result = ntl.mean().clip(aoi)