Remote sensing of night lights: A review and an outlook for the future

N Levin, CCM Kyba, Q Zhang, AS de Miguel… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of night light emissions in the visible band offers a unique opportunity to
directly observe human activity from space. This has allowed a host of applications including …

Measuring night sky brightness: methods and challenges

A Hänel, T Posch, SJ Ribas, M Aubé, D Duriscoe… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2018 - Elsevier
Measuring the brightness of the night sky has become an increasingly important topic in
recent years, as artificial lights and their scattering by the Earth's atmosphere continue …

The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness

F Falchi, P Cinzano, D Duriscoe, CCM Kyba… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Artificial lights raise night sky luminance, creating the most visible effect of light pollution—
artificial skyglow. Despite the increasing interest among scientists in fields such as ecology …

[HTML][HTML] How to measure light pollution—A systematic review of methods and applications

S Mander, F Alam, R Lovreglio, M Ooi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is ever-present in modern society and has revolutionised our
lives. Along with its many benefits, ALAN can have adverse effects that are studied across …
A Jechow, Z Kolláth, SJ Ribas, H Spoelstra, F Hölker… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Artificial skyglow is constantly growing on a global scale, with potential ecological
consequences ranging up to affecting biodiversity. To understand these consequences …

Evaluating street lighting quality in residential areas by combining remote sensing tools and a survey on pedestrians' perceptions of safety and visual comfort

M Liu, B Zhang, T Luo, Y Liu, BA Portnov, T Trop… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The perceived quality of street lighting influences pedestrians' perceptions of safety and
visual comfort, as well as outdoors activities at night. This study explores the association …

Red is the new black: how the colour of urban skyglow varies with cloud cover

CCM Kyba, T Ruhtz, J Fischer… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The development of street lamps based on solid-state lighting technology is likely to
introduce a major change in the colour of urban skyglow (one form of light pollution). We …

Night sky brightness measurement, quality assessment and monitoring

JC Barentine - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Ground-based optical astronomy necessarily involves sensing the light of astronomical
objects along with the contributions of many natural sources ranging from the Earth's …