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The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness
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The world atlas of zenith artificial night sky brightness is modelled with VIIRS DNB data and calibrated with more than 35,000 observations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Falchi, F., Cinzano, P., Duriscoe, D., Kyba, C. C. M., Elvidge, C. D., Baugh, K., Portnov, B. A., Rybnikova, N. A., & Furgoni, R.
- Venue
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2016-06-03
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- e1600377-e1600377
- ISSN
- 2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2417517957
- Cited by
- 1,646
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 79.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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