The artificial night sky brightness mapped from DMSP satellite Operational Linescan System measurements
By P. Cinzano, F. Falchi, Christopher D. Elvidge, K. E. B. D. D. Astronomia, Padova, Italy., Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division, Noaa National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Co.. 2000
168 citations recorded by the source corpus.
ABSTRA C T We present a method to map the artificial sky brightness across large territories in astronomical photometric bands with a resolution of approximately 1 km. This is of use in quantifying the situation regarding night sky pollution, recognizing potential astronomical sites and allowing future monitoring of trends. The artificial sky brightness present in the chosen direction at a given position on the surface of the Earth is obtained by the integration of the contributions produced by every surface area in the surroundings. Each contribution is computed via detailed models for the propagation in the atmosphere of the upward light flux emitted by the area. The light flux is measured with top-of-atmosphere radiometric observations made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System. We have applied the described method to Europe, obtaining maps of artificial sky brightness in the V and B bands.
Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5d60466ba4e4c876d0105ceb07ca8721111040da
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
- Terrel A. Gallaway
- Reed Olsen
- David M. Mitchell
- Italy.
- Noaa National Geophysical Data Center
- Office of the Director
- C. D. E. D. D. Astronomia
- Co.
Citations in the corpus
- The economics of global light pollution (2010, methodology): “nearly 30 nights in 1996 and 1997. ( Cinzano, et al. 2000, 642).”
- The effects of light pollution on biological rhythms of birds: an integrated, mechanistic perspective (2015, unknown): “In developed countries, very few places can be considered free of light pollution (Cinzano et al. 2000).”
- The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky brightness (2001, background): “…capability to perceive the Universe is better shown by specific maps of stellar visibility, which account for altitude and atmospheric extinction (Cinzano et al. 2000b, hereafter Paper 2), maps of the zenith artificial sky brightness at sea level provide a reasonable statistical evaluation of…”
- The Nightsat mission concept (2007, unknown): “…et al. 2002, Maxwell et al., 2004); (f) estimation of artificial sky brightness and its effect on the visibility of astronomical features (Cinzano et al. 2000, 2001a, 2001b, 2004); (g) calculation of anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere (Saxon et al. 1997 and Toenges-Schuller et al.…”