Journal
SENSORS
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages 12166-12174Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/s130912166
Keywords
light pollution; sky quality meter; light at night; temperature; stability; skyglow; night sky brightness
Funding
- project Verlust der Nacht
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany [BMBF-033L038A]
- MILIEU (FU Berlin)
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The stability of radiance measurements taken by the Sky Quality Meter (SQM) was tested under rapidly changing temperature conditions during exposure to a stable light field in the laboratory. The reported radiance was found to be negatively correlated with temperature, but remained within 7% of the initial reported radiance over a temperature range of -15 degrees C to 35 degrees C, and during temperature changes of -33 degrees C/h and +70 degrees C/h. This is smaller than the manufacturer's quoted unit-to-unit systematic uncertainty of 10%, indicating that the temperature compensation of the SQM is adequate under expected outdoor operating conditions.
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