Package: lightson Title: Download and Analyse Nighttime Lights Satellite Data Version: 0.2.0 Authors@R: person("Saket", "Choudhary", email = "saketc@iitb.ac.in", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5202-7633")) Description: Downloads and processes nighttime lights satellite data from the 'NASA' 'VIIRS' Black Marble product suite (daily, monthly, and annual composites; Roman et al. (2018) ) served by the 'LAADS DAAC' archive , and from the Indian Space Research Organisation's 'Bhuvan' nighttime lights portal. Provides zonal statistics over arbitrary polygons, returning tidy region-by-time panels, along with plotting helpers. License: MIT + file LICENSE Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Encoding: UTF-8 Imports: httr2 (>= 1.0.0), terra (>= 1.7.0), sf (>= 1.0.0), jsonlite, digest Suggests: geodata, ggplot2, patchwork, scales, withr, testthat (>= 3.1.7), knitr, rmarkdown Config/testthat/edition: 3 VignetteBuilder: knitr URL: https://lightson.saketlab.org, https://github.com/saketlab/lightson BugReports: https://github.com/saketlab/lightson/issues Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.1 NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-11-03 18:34:10 UTC; root Author: Saket Choudhary [aut, cre] (ORCID: ) Maintainer: Saket Choudhary Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-11-03 15:22:25 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/lightson RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 3a00bc48e284ddc3893bc225a9fc927ede293a3a