GIS-lights-data

GIS-based indicator of light pollution levels within National Parks.

Lights data

US borders data

US National Parks shapefiles source

Some notes on using lights data

Skills:

• Use R's GIS packages to process data.

To do:

• Fix basic plotting issue
• Crop for US data
• Crop actual image
• Overlay US National Parks Data
• Extract data to generate park-level indicator
  • Consider removing 1 mile boundary around park border
• Find international national parks data for non-US sites
• Repeat for US Congressional districts, US counties (with population data?), US municipalities