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Light Pollution Lab (LPL-USC)

The LPL-USC is a research lab located at the Faculty of Optics and Optometry of the USC South Campus in Santiago de Compostela. Its mission is to provide instrumental support to the researchers of the USC Optics Area, and to our partners from other centers, for carrying out basic research and developing applications to advance our knowledge of Light Pollution.

LIGHT POLLUTION SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS BY LPL-USC AND COLLABORATORS:

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REPORTS:

20180510: Avance do estudo sobre EMISIÓNS LUMINOSAS DOS CONCELLOS GALEGOS VIIRS-DNB 2015 (Report on light emissions of Galician municipalities VIIRS-DNB 2015: Preliminary results) (In Galician)
20180712: Posibles riesgos de la iluminación LED para la salud. By María Ángeles Rol de Lama and Salvador Bará. (In Spanish) Ch. 2 of the book Posibles riesgos de la iluminación LED. Conclusiones del Grupo de Trabajo del Comité Español de Iluminación (CEI, 2018), pp. 53-79. ISBN: 978-84-946991-7-7

OUTREACH

NA PROCURA DA NOITE: fotografando o ceo nocturno. Gorgeous images of the nightscape, by a selection of the best Galician astrophotographers.
A PERDA DA ESCURIDADE. Galician version of the International DarkSky Association video LOSING THE DARK.
O MUNDO Á NOITE. Galician webapp for the international action GLOBE AT NIGHT.
Salvador Bará, Contaminación luminosa: outra forma de agresión medioambiental, Cerna 76, 34-37 (2016) (In Galician)

SHORT REPORT SERIES

Salvador Bará, and Raul Lima, Are SQM-L measurements polarization dependent?, Short Report Series, LPL-USC-SRS/02, May 22, 2015.
Salvador Bará, Raul Lima, Ángel R. Arós and Lucía Giráldez, Interobserver variability of hand-held SQM-L measurements, Short Report Series, LPL-USC-SRS/01, May 5, 2015.

GOOD PRACTICES SERIES

Salvador Bará, Ana Ulla, Boas prácticas de iluminación en actividades nocturnas: Usando a luz de forma intelixente e sostible no Parque Nacional Marítimo-Terrestre das Illas Atlánticas de Galicia (Good lighting practices for nighttime activities: Smart and sustainable lighting in the Galician Atlantic Islands Maritime-Terrestrial National Park) April 1, 2016 (Galician)

USC IN THE NEWS

Expertos de la USC cuantificarán el impacto de las pantallas digitales (24/03/2018)
La contaminación lumínica de Barcelona se extiende sobre el mar (09/07/2017)
La Hora del Planeta: Que las farolas no nos impidan ver las estrellas (25/03/2017)
Recuperarmos a noite estrelecida (10/01/2017)
“Nunha ampla banda de territorio desde o norte de Galiza até Lisboa non se pode ver xa a Vía Láctea” (05/12/2016)
Los halógenos se despiden: el futuro estará iluminado por bombillas led (30/08/2016)
Innovación para avaliar a contaminación lumínica nas cidades (15/09/2015)
A Rede galega de medida do brillo do ceo nocturno avaliará os niveis de contaminación lumínica (29/06/2015)

VIIRS-DNB 2015 Annual composite emissions map (Galician municipalities) Click to enlarge and display in a new window

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Xornadas da Universidade de Verán: "Contaminación Lumínica: Unha Nova Fronteira". Do 2 ao 4 de setembro de 2015. Máis información...
USC Summer University Conference: "Light Pollution: A New Frontier", September 2-4, 2015. More info...
Jornadas de la Universidade de Verán: "Contaminación Lumínica: Una Nueva Frontera". Del 2 al 4 de septiembre de 2015. Más información...

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Light Pollution Lab (LPL-USC)

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela