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license: MIT
title: 'lightson: Download and Analyse Nighttime Lights Satellite Data'
version: 0.2.0
abstract: Downloads and processes nighttime lights satellite data from the 'NASA'
  'VIIRS' Black Marble product suite (daily, monthly, and annual composites; Roman
  et al. (2018) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.017>) served by the 'LAADS
  DAAC' archive <https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov>, 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.
authors:
- family-names: Choudhary
  given-names: Saket
  email: saketc@iitb.ac.in
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5202-7633
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/saketlab/lightson
commit: 3a00bc48e284ddc3893bc225a9fc927ede293a3a
url: https://lightson.saketlab.org
date-released: '2026-11-03'
contact:
- family-names: Choudhary
  given-names: Saket
  email: saketc@iitb.ac.in
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5202-7633