A Photographic Investigation of Tehran's Light Pollution from North and East Directions

Anthropogenic Pollution

مقاله 3، دوره 1، شماره 1، آذر 2017، صفحه 18-24   

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22034/apj.2017.1.1.1824

نویسندگان

Seyed Hamed Mirzakhalil^{* 1}؛ Sepehr Arbabi Bidgoli²

¹M.Sc. student of Natural Resources and Environment at Islamic Azad University, Damavand Branch.

²Qom University of Technology

چکیده

Tehran is the most affected town by light pollution in Iran. In this study, the role of the regional topography in the distribution of light pollution in Tehran was evaluated using digital images recording and analyzing the obtained images from Tehran sky-glow by East and South in standard image-processing Software. The scale of Tehran's glowing =dome as measured by 17 mag/arc sec² or 0.017 cd/m² by South, and 18.7 (mag/arc sec²) or 0.0035 cd/m² by East. Considering the approximately equal distance of the two viewpoints from the center of Tehran city, the calculated scale by South is 1.36 times larger than the amount from the East point.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Light Pollution Measurement؛ Sky-glow؛ Artificial Light؛ Digital Photography

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