Night-sky brightness monitoring in Hong Kong A city-wide light pollution assessment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2537-2557

  Pun, Chun Shing Jason ^a   So, Chu Wing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Air pollutant concentration; Environmental assessment; Environmental monitoring; Light pollution; Night sky brightness; Pollution risk

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HONG-KONG; LAND UTILIZATION; LIGHT POLLUTION; LOCAL TIME; POPULATION DENSITIES; RULES AND REGULATIONS; RURAL SITE; URBAN LOCATIONS;

AIR POLLUTION; MONITORING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSORS; SURVEYS;

LUMINANCE;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIGHT POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CITY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HONG KONG; LAND USE; LIGHT POLLUTION; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NIGHT SKY BRIGHTNESS; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LIGHT;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84862886093     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2136-1     Document Type: Article

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