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New nighttime light data, new insights on how the Earth is changing Manhattan, New York City, United States. Photo by NASA on Unsplash Much research has suggested that night-time lights can, to a certain degree, represent several variables, including urbanisation, density, and economic growth.  To speed up research efforts and applications, the World Bank released open access, analysis-ready, nightlight data set under Amazon Web Services (AWS) open public data set program. The Light Every Night (LEN) data set includes the complete archive of all nighttime imagery captured each night over t...

Light Every Night – New nighttime light data set and tools for development Illustration of a satellite view of Planet Earth. ©Rakchai Duangdee/Shutterstock The power was out again. Sitting in a darkened room in western Senegal, the man talked happily about how the arrival of electricity a decade ago had transformed life in the village of Gaouane. But becoming accustomed to reliable electricity had an unexpected downside: “Now when the power goes out, it feels even darker than before we had electricity!” The World Bank and its partners have been at the forefront of this charge. Support...