Investigation of Light Pollution in Budapest XIIIth District
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https://doi.org/10.33038/jcegi.3503Keywords:
light pollution, lux, airborne dust, PM10, relative humidityAbstract
Light Pollution is a modern-day environmental burden that became part of our life via the 20th century's urbanization, challenging city scaping and designing. Light Pollution phenomenon is not exclusively discomfort to human senses, mid-long exposure can cause fatigue, insomnia, etc. To understand the level of light pollution, light-measuring is required. This study focuses on urban safety lighting, and urban industrial zone lighting, if it trespasses recommended light emission values on multiple locations in XIIIth district in Budapest (Hungary). We tried to explain the huge varying and fluctuation on the recorded data, we searched for correlation between recorded light intensity data and PM10 airborne dust, or relative air humidity. The measuring campaign took 8 weeks, and during analysation no obvious correlation was found between the fluctuation and measured parameters.
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