Outdoor Lighting: Physics, Vision and Perception

• Main Author: Schreuder, Duco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Physics.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Engineering.; Civil engineering.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Engineering, general.; Civil Engineering.; Urbanism.

This book covers theoretical aspects that are at the basis of lighting installations. It focuses on insight, backgrounds and coherence. There are many fundamental aspects that are essential for understanding why different ways to install and use lighting give different results. A purely pragmatic ap...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The function of outdoor lighting
• Physical aspects of light production
• Radiometry and photometry
• The mathematics of luminance
• Practical photometry
• The human observer; physical and anatomical aspects of vision
• The human observer; visual performance aspects
• The human observer; visual perception
• The human observer; colour vision
• Road lighting applications
• Road lighting design.