New Crowd Sourcing Global Nighttime Pollution
Loss of the Night is a novel Android app that is helping to mensurate star visibility together with lite pollution simply about the world.
The app uses the good known Sky Map (developed past times Google together with at in 1 lawsuit opened upward sourced) to crowd-source lite pollution. With the app users simply postulate to expect upward at the sky, uncovering for certain stars, together with tape whether they tin sack meet them or not.
Users' observations are together with hence sent anonymously to the GLOBE at Night database.
The GLOBE at Night has itself created a Google Map of lite pollution measurements taken past times the populace during the GLOBE at Night 2012 campaign.
Night Lights is a composite map of satellite images taken inwards 2012. The 'Blue Marble' icon used inwards the map was created past times NASA past times carefully sifting through satellite images taken over time, inwards companionship to eliminate every bit much cloud comprehend every bit possible from the collated prepare of images.
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