Light pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky
Recently light pollution has been one of the most dynamically increasing form of environmental pollution. Light, if it arrives at the wrong place, time, quantity and quality, is harmful to human health and the physical environment-not to mention that it is a mere waste of energy. The brightness of t...
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| author | Gyenizse Péter Soltész Emese Lóczy Dénes Kovács János Nagyváradi László Elekes Tibor Gyenizse-Nagy Sára Bodza Németh Gergő Halmai Ákos |
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| description | Recently light pollution has been one of the most dynamically increasing form of environmental pollution. Light, if it arrives at the wrong place, time, quantity and quality, is harmful to human health and the physical environment-not to mention that it is a mere waste of energy. The brightness of the sky above Pécs was measured by SQM-L instruments in 2011 and 2019. Maps of the different neighbourhoods with different levels of light pollution have been prepared. In addition, special VIIRS day/night band satellite images were also analysed using QGIS software. Our investigations coincided with the modernization of street lighting in the city. The impact of LED illuminators installed along main roads in Pécs was observed locally. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7aa4bdfb77af49f4af4cf21058782d6f2023-01-31T08:07:40ZengUniversity of Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel ManagementGeographica Pannonica0354-87241820-71382022-01-0126433434410.5937/gp26-395260354-87242204334GLight pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban skyGyenizse Péter0Soltész Emese1Lóczy Dénes2Kovács János3Nagyváradi László4Elekes Tibor5Gyenizse-Nagy Sára Bodza6Németh Gergő7Halmai Ákos8University of Pécs, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pécs, HungaryUniversity of Pécs, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pécs, HungaryUniversity of Pécs, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pécs, HungaryUniversity of Pécs, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pécs, HungaryUniversity of Pécs, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pécs, HungaryUniversity of Miskolc, Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering, Institute of Geography and GIS, Miskolc-Egyetemváros, HungaryUniversity of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Kaposvár Campus of Hungarian Kaposvár, Institute of Game Management and Nature Conservation, Kaposvár, HungaryUniversity of Pécs, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pécs, HungaryUniversity of Pécs, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Pécs, HungaryRecently light pollution has been one of the most dynamically increasing form of environmental pollution. Light, if it arrives at the wrong place, time, quantity and quality, is harmful to human health and the physical environment-not to mention that it is a mere waste of energy. The brightness of the sky above Pécs was measured by SQM-L instruments in 2011 and 2019. Maps of the different neighbourhoods with different levels of light pollution have been prepared. In addition, special VIIRS day/night band satellite images were also analysed using QGIS software. Our investigations coincided with the modernization of street lighting in the city. The impact of LED illuminators installed along main roads in Pécs was observed locally.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8724/2022/0354-87242204334G.pdflight pollution mappingsqm-lviirs day/night bandqgistinthiessen polygonpécs |
| spellingShingle | Gyenizse Péter Soltész Emese Lóczy Dénes Kovács János Nagyváradi László Elekes Tibor Gyenizse-Nagy Sára Bodza Németh Gergő Halmai Ákos Light pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky Geographica Pannonica light pollution mapping sqm-l viirs day/night band qgis tin thiessen polygon pécs |
| title | Light pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky |
| title_full | Light pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky |
| title_fullStr | Light pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky |
| title_full_unstemmed | Light pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky |
| title_short | Light pollution mapping in Pécs city with the help of SQM-L and VIIRS DNB: The effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky |
| title_sort | light pollution mapping in pecs city with the help of sqm l and viirs dnb the effect of public luminaire replacements on the sky background of the urban sky |
| topic | light pollution mapping sqm-l viirs day/night band qgis tin thiessen polygon pécs |
| url | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8724/2022/0354-87242204334G.pdf |
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