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MDPI, Remote Sensing, 17(15), p. 4189, 2023

DOI: 10.3390/rs15174189

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Calibrating Nighttime Satellite Imagery with Red Photometer Networks

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Abstract

The data retrieved from satellite imagery and ground-based photometers are the two main sources of information on light pollution and are thus the two main tools for tackling the problem of artificial light pollution at night (ALAN). While satellite data offer high spatial coverage, on the other hand, photometric data provide information with a higher degree of temporal resolution. Thus, studying the proper correlation between both sources will allow us to calibrate and integrate them to obtain data with both high temporal resolution and spatial coverage. For this purpose, more than 15,000 satellite measurements and 400,000 measurements from 72 photometers for the year 2022 were used. The photometers used were the Sky-Glow Wireless Autonomous Sensor (SG-WAS) and Telescope Encoder and Sky Sensor WIFI (TESS-W) types, located at different ground-based locations, mainly in Spain. These photometers have a spectral sensitivity closer to that of VIIRS than to the Sky Quality Meter (SQM). In this study, a good correlation of data from the Day–Night Band (DNB) from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) with a red photometric network between 19.41 mag/arcsec2 and 21.12 mag/arcsec2 was obtained.