Plotting Nighttime Data using python (h5py, cartopy)

I recently shared a night lights map derived from NOAA satellite data.

The image above was generated using data from the from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite and the NOAA-20 satellite.

More info can be found here: https://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/VIIRS_DNB_nighttime_imagery/index.html

Since I had a hard time figuring this out (mostly because I weren’t reading the manuals and documentation) I might as well share how I did it.

Check out the notebook below.