The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

Science advances - Tập 2 Số 6 - 2016
Fabio Falchi1, P. Cinzano1, Dan M. Duriscoe2, I. Levine3,4, Christopher D. Elvidge5, Kimberly Baugh6, Boris A. Portnov7, Nataliya Rybnikova7, R. Furgoni8,1
1Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Inquinamento Luminoso (Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute), 36016, Thiene, Italy
2National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior, Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA.
3Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
4Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
5Earth Observation Group, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.
6Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
7Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Faculty of Management, University of Haifa, 3498838 Haifa, Israel.
8American Association of Variable Star Observers, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Tóm tắt

The world atlas of zenith artificial night sky brightness is modelled with VIIRS DNB data and calibrated with more than 35,000 observations.

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