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Title: "ESRI: World at Night" (2004)
 
Description: World at Night represents a nighttime view of the Earth produced by mosaicking Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) satellite images. This system was originally designed to view clouds by moonlight and to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth's surface. These data are derived from 9 months of observations superimposed on a darkened land surface. ESRI georeferenced these data to a real world coordinate system. World at Night provides an informational and educational view of our planet at night.
 
Keywords and Themes: Base Maps, Cities, Earth Cover, Imagery, Map Scan Images, Night, Society,
 
Filename Prefix: earth_city_lights_5km.bil
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Mapped Drive Folder: /esri2004/images/world/images
Total size of data files: 96 MB
 
Data Type: ESRI BIL
Feature Type: raster digital data
Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984
Datum: D_WGS_1984Map Units: Decimal degrees

Spatial Extent: World
Source Scale: 1:18,500,000

Created by: NASA - Visible Earth
Released by: ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
Content Date: 200109
Published Date: 20040301

Collection Name: ESRI® Data & Maps 2004
Physical Location: Reference GIS Data Cabinet
Call Number: G70.212 .E77 2004
Acquired Date: 20040630
Distribution Restrictions: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/gis/esridm/2004/help/rdstrght.htm

Note: To use this data requires software that supports ESRI BIL files.

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Record ID: 2369_edm04

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