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Using DMSP Night-Time Imagery to Evaluate Lighting Practice in the American Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Christian B. Luginbuhl
Christian B. Luginbuhl*
Affiliation:
United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, PO Box 1149, Flagstaff AZ 86002 USA

Abstract

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The U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellites provide an opportunity to measure the uplight produced by artificial lighting on the ground. In this study DMSP data are used to measure the integrated at-detector radiance of a number of communities in the American Southwest in an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of outdoor lighting codes. Use of DMSP data in this manner is complicated by many factors, and some of these are briefly discussed.

Type
Part 2. Threats to Optical Astronomy
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 196: Preserving the Astronomical Sky , 2001 , pp. 103 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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