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Collected here, are references related to studies of Light Pollution. Please add useful references that you are aware of, which are not listed here.

(Useful websites and references related to Digital Camera Image processing are Here)

NOAA light pollution maps

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/maps.html

NASA Earth System Science and Data services

http://nasadaacs.eos.nasa.gov/

NOAA nightly mosaics

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/maps/cgi-bin/public/ms/mosaic/ut_night/viewer

Population and Land use data

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/

The first World Atlas of the artificial night sky brightness

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2001MNRAS.328..689C/0000689.000.html

Recent progress in a second world atlas of light pollution

http://inquinamentoluminoso.it/download/iau06cinzano.pdf

The website of the Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute, Italy and the Satellite monitoring of the artificial night sky brightness and the stellar visibility project

http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/index.html

Globe at Night

http://www.globe.gov/GaN/

International Dark Sky Association

http://www.darksky.org/mc/page.do

1973 Science article - Outdoor lighting is a growing threat to astronomy

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/179/4080/1285

Modelling light pollution from population data

http://www.georgewright.org/184albers.pdf

Naked-eye star visibility and limiting magnitude mapped from DMSP-OLS satellite data

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04213.x

Simple limiting magnitude estimates discussion

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/observatory/observers/limiting_magnitude.html

Limiting magnitude and night sky brightness

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000MmSAI..71...83G

Sky spectra at a light polluted site

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1992PASP..104...76O&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf

Spectrum of Light Pollution from Mt. Hamilton

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1976PASP...88..349O&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf

Science Fair projects - measuring sky brightness with digital camera images

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Astro_p022.shtml

Night-sky brightness from the visibility of stars near the horizon

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991PASP..103.1292U

Visual limiting magnitude determination charts

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991JBAA..101..213M

Educating the Public about Light Pollution

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001IAUS..196..363I

The growth of light pollution in North-Eastern Italy from 1960 to 1995

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000MmSAI..71..159C

Light Pollution and Energy Loss from Cairo

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001IAUS..196..107O

Light pollution situation in Germany

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000MmSAI..71..153H

Ecological consequences of artificial night sky lighting

http://tinyurl.com/6p3gce

Star Watching Observations to Measure Night Sky Brightness

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1998ASPC..139..175I

Organized Observations of Night Sky Brightness in Japan

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1991ASPC...17...35K

Monitoring light energy loss estimated by the DMSP satellites

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000MmSAI..71..131I

Light Pollution Handbook By Kohei Narisada, Duco Schreuder

http://tinyurl.com/3hky9z

Night Sky brightness from observatories and sites

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1989PASP..101..306G&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf

Light Pollution: Responses and Remedies By Bob Mizon

http://tinyurl.com/3emcop

Public Education to Preserve Dark Skies and Astronomical Windows with Eavesdropping and Robotic Telescopes

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1998ASPC..139..109B

Natural Optical Sky Background

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1998ASPC..139...17L

Adverse Environmental Impact on Astronomy

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1998ASPC..139....1M/0000001.000.html

A Comparison of Night Sky Brightness under Ordinary Urban Lighting and During Light-Down Periods in Kyoto City

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1998ASPC..139..167I

Controlling Light Pollution in Chile: A Status Report

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001IAUS..196...39S

Japanese Government Official Guideline for Reduction of Light Pollution

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001IAUS..196..117I

Light pollution: The Global View : Edited By H. E. Schwarz

http://tinyurl.com/4zb4la

Preserving the Astronomical "Windows" by/for Education and Culture

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1998ASPC..139....7P

Light Pollution: The Problem, the Solutions

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1998ASPC..139...13C

The Light Pollution Programme in Greece

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2001IAUS..196..359M

Light-Pollution Prevention Ordinance in the Town of Bisei

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1991PASAu...9..336I

Reducing obtrusive light

http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~hfpop/lec/journal/2000-06/31a.pdf

Astronomical seeing and meteorological air mass analysis

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974Obs....94...14M

A list of references related to effects of light pollution on wildlife

http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/jlw/light.htm

A Simple Computer Model for the Growth of Light Pollution

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1976JRASC..70..116P

The effects of urban lighting on the brightness of the night sky

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977PASP...89..405W

High resolution map showing night sky brightness over India

http://www.lightpollution.it/worldatlas/pages/fig7.htm

A website with a collection of references related to light pollution studies

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/light-pollution/references.html

British Government parliamentary report on Light Pollution

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/127/12702.htm

The night sky conditions at the Sacramento Peak Observatory. I - Sky brightness

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979PASP...91..530S

MODELLING LIGHT POLLUTION FROM SEARCHLIGHTS

http://tinyurl.com/6o6dtm

Light Pollution related website

http://www.skykeepers.org/ecol-lp.html

Exposure time calculator for IFOSC and sky background estimation

http://tinyurl.com/5phw32

Roadway Lighting - An investigation and evaluation of three different light sources

http://www.azdot.gov/TPD/ATRC/publications/project_reports/PDF/AZ522.pdf

Environmental effects of roadway lighting

http://tinyurl.com/6c3gy6

Urban Remote Sensing

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~small/Urban.html

Elvidge, C.D., Baugh, K.E., Kihn, E A., Kroehl, H.W., Davis E.R. and Davis, C.W. 1997. Relation between observed visible-near infrared emisisons, population, economic activity and electric power consumption. International Journal of Remote Sensing 18(6):1373-1379.

This paper describes a study of correlation between the area lit by anthropogenic visible-near infrared emissions and variables such as population, gross domestic product and electric power consumption for 21 countries. The area lit is defined as area which had detectable lights in at least 10 % of the cloud free observations. The relationship between area lit and population on a log scale was generally linear but presented some outliers (countries with poor developed economies). The relationship between area lit and GPD or electric power consumption was stronger (R square of 0.97 and 0.96). The results indicate that the local level of economic development must be factored into the apportionment of the world population based on the lights dataset.

Social Science applications of remote sensing

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/tg/guide_print.jsp?rd=rs&ds=5.6

Some map related resources

A very good resource for India related (and other) maps

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/india.html

Some links related to Indian policies and conditions of lighting

CSIR report on High Pressure Sodium Vapour lamp usage

http://www.dsir.gov.in/reports/techreps/tsr081.pdf

Perhaps not so useful? Related to MAP lighting policies.

http://dgmap.nic.in/dg/policy/POLICIES%202005/Policy%20Letter%20No%2019%20of%202005.pdf