Night sky brightness at sites from DMSP-OLS satellite measurements

ABSTRACT We apply the sky brightness modelling technique introduced and developed by Roy Garstang to high‐resolution satellite measurements of upward artificial light flux carried out with the US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System and to GTOPO30 (a global...

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Published in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2004-10, Vol.353 (4), p.1107-1116
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