Light pollution: A review of the scientific literature

J Rodrigo-Comino, S Seeling… - The Anthropocene …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Light pollution is the consequence of elevated lighting emitted by human-made artefacts to
the lower atmosphere. Recently, there have been major advances in the assessment and …

Anthropogenic disruption of the night sky darkness in urban and rural areas

S Bará - Royal Society Open Science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The growing emissions of artificial light to the atmosphere are producing, among other
effects, a significant increase of the night sky brightness (NSB) above its expected natural …

Measurements of night sky brightness in the Veneto region of Italy: Sky quality meter network results and differential photometry by digital single lens reflex

A Bertolo, R Binotto, S Ortolani, S Sapienza - Journal of Imaging, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present the implementation of a monitoring network for artificial light at
night (ALAN), based on Sky Quality Meter devices (SQM) installed in seven locations of the …

Estimating the relative contribution of streetlights, vehicles, and residential lighting to the urban night sky brightness

S Bará, Á Rodríguez-Arós, M Pérez… - Lighting Research …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Under stable atmospheric conditions the brightness of the urban sky varies throughout the
night following the time course of the anthropogenic emissions of light. Different types of …

Absolute radiometric calibration of TESS-W and SQM night sky brightness sensors

S Bará, CE Tapia, J Zamorano - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
We develop a general optical model and describe the absolute radiometric calibration of the
readings provided by two widely-used night sky brightness sensors based on irradiance-to …

Monitoring transition: expected night sky brightness trends in different photometric bands

S Bará, I Rigueiro, RC Lima - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Several light pollution indicators are commonly used to monitor the effects of the transition
from outdoor lighting systems based on traditional gas-discharge lamps to solid-state light …

Light pollution offshore: Zenithal sky glow measurements in the mediterranean coastal waters

X Ges, S Bará, M García-Gil, J Zamorano… - Journal of quantitative …, 2018 - Elsevier
Light pollution is a worldwide phenomenon whose consequences for the natural
environment and the human health are being intensively studied nowadays. Most published …

SG-WAS: A new wireless autonomous night sky brightness sensor

MR Alarcon, M Puig-Subirà, M Serra-Ricart… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The main features of SG-WAS (SkyGlow Wireless Autonomous Sensor), a low-cost device
for measuring Night Sky Brightness (NSB), are presented. SG-WAS is based on the TSL237 …

Night-Time Skyglow Dynamics during the COVID-19 Epidemic in Guangbutun Region of Wuhan City

C Li, X Li, C Zhu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 epidemic lockdown has a direct influence on urban socioeconomic activity,
including night-time light (NTL) changes. Night-time skyglow, a form of light pollution caused …

Measurements of sky brightness at Bosscha Observatory, Indonesia

D Herdiwijaya, R Satyaningsih, HA Prastyo… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
To determine the level of light pollution due to human activities, we performed sky-
brightness measurements at Bosscha Observatory, Indonesia (107° 36′ E; 6° 49′ S, 1300 …