We have developed a method for generating future scenarios of nighttime lights. What makes this method unique is its ability to: 1) generate future gridded nighttime light intensity scenarios for cities, 2) generate future scenarios that preserve the distribution pattern of nighttime light intensity, and 3) generate scenarios that reflect urban policies. By applying this developed method, we have estimated nighttime light data for 555 cities worldwide from 2017 to 2053 under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios.

We provide the estimated future nighttime light for each target city in multilayer geotiff format at this URL.