A photopollution index based on weighted cumulative visibility to night lights

Demetris Stathakis; Leonidas Liakos; Christos Chalkias; Maria Pafi

doi:10.1117/12.2500212

9 October 2018 A photopollution index based on weighted cumulative visibility to night lights

Demetris Stathakis, Leonidas Liakos, Christos Chalkias, Maria Pafi

Proceedings Volume 10793, Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments III; 1079304 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500212
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2018, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

A method is presented to estimate photopollution (a.k.a night-lights pollution) in a macroscopic manner, i.e. that can be applied globally, using open-domain data. Photopollution has two components, direct illumination and skyglow i.e. the diffused scattering of light in the atmosphere. The proposed method is currently focusing on direct illumination only. The novelty is that viewshed analysis is deployed, taking into account the viewing distance as well as the amount of the light at each source. Moreover, monthly variation of photopollution is measured based on recently available suitable data.

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Demetris Stathakis, Leonidas Liakos, Christos Chalkias, and Maria Pafi "A photopollution index based on weighted cumulative visibility to night lights", Proc. SPIE 10793, Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments III, 1079304 (9 October 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2500212

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