Title: Urban Illumination: From the needs to the acceptance test
1Urban IlluminationFrom the needs to the
acceptance test
- Thierry Midavaine
- thimidav_at_club.fr
- Association Française dAstronomie
- www.afanet.com
- Darksky 2008
- August 22-23 Vienna Austria
2Identify a process
- We have a gap between the amateur astronomer
community request and the elected town board
concern. - Could a mayor may ask for a professional
photometric expertise on the illumination of a
town ? - To who ?
- We proposed a study to the French Optical
Institute in 2006 on such a process, and a call
for subscription to the AFA members.
3 the RFP process
- The elected members of a town council are in
charge of the call for proposal for any city
equipment. Therefore, the urban illumination
equipments are under there responsibility and it
go through the following process - They issue a request for proposal (RFP), it
gathers the requirements to meet the
Specifications. - Companies compete in answering to the RFP.
- The best offer, meeting the Specifications and
the most competitive is selected. - The selected company is notified through a
granted contract. The contract precise acceptance
conditions in agreement with the specifications
the Acceptance Test. - The company manufactures the deliverables to the
town. - The fullfilled Acceptance Test allows the final
payment of balance.
4Besoins de Nuits Issue a specification Define an
acceptance test
- Therefore AFA is on the way to issue a
Specification meeting the expressed Needs. - This Specification could be attached in the
requirements of a call for proposal issued by a
town. - This Specification have to be achievable, this
implies two things - It could to be met
- The deliverables could be checked by a quantified
Acceptance Test.
5The Specification
The Specification translates our Needs in
quantified requirements to be checked by the
Acceptance Test. Therefore we have to express
our Needs in simple sentences. They have to be
shared and understandable. This could become a
shared reference document in each country or even
merged and up dated by IDA at an international
level. It was the starting point of our study
settled during the RCE2006 conference at the Dark
Sky Protection Session.
6The need Thierry Midavaine RCE Novembre 2006
What is my need What are the needs of my
relatives What are the needs of my
community What are the needs of our
society What are the needs of our planet
to quote the night quality and the
illumination quality ?
7Expressing our Night Need
Nos enfants doivent pouvoir voir la Voie Lactée
par nuit claire et sans Lune dans la périphérie
de ma commune. Our Children are able to see the
Milky Way during clear night and without Moon
from the outskirts of my town Nous devons voir
des étoiles de magnitude 6 à 20 au dessus de
lhorizon dans toutes les directions. We are able
to see 6th magnitude stars at 20 above the
horizon at any azimuth.
8Expressing our Urban Illumination Need
- Les conditions déclairages en ville sont
suffisants pour permettre aux piétons de voir - La chaussée
- Les obstacles, les trous, le bord du trottoir,
les marquages au sol, la nature du sol, les
flaques deau - Les déjections canines
- Reconnaître les visages des autres piétons
- Le respect dune dimension historique peut être
demandée par les concitoyens dans laspect des
lampes. - The Illumination level in a town allows a
pedestrian to see - The pavement
- The obstacles, the holes, the limit of the
footpath, the ground prints, the kind of ground,
puddles - The dungs of dog
- The face of other pedestrians, and recognise them
- The historical legacy looking of street lamps
could be required
9Besoins de Nuits Granting a Label
The Areas, Towns, Parks, meeting our expressed
needs could be granted by a Label like the Blue
Flag attesting the quality of sea water of French
resorts on the sea side. This qualification is
achieved with the process of the Acceptance Test.
If it is passed, a black flag Label could be
granted.
10First Step
- Input Assumptions
- The town is defined by a size a . b, a map of the
streets and areas to be illuminated - The minimum range d from the outskirts where the
night will be measured. - Define the nice weather condition from the large
visibility range. - People have an rated acuity at 10
- Gathering the existing quantified photometric data
11- Juillet 2002, Ciel et Espace issued the map
merging Cinzano output on a IGN french map - Cartographie du rapport de luminosité
artificielle/naturelle du ciel au zénith (perte
en magnitude) - lt 10 noir (lt 0,10 magnitude)
- lt 33 bleu (lt 0,31 magnitude)
- lt 100 vert (lt 0,75 magnitude)
- lt 300 jaune (lt 1,5 magnitudes)
- lt 900 orange (lt 2,5 magnitudes)
- lt 2700 rouge (lt 3,6 magnitudes)
- gt 2700 blanc (gt 3,6 magnitudes)
- A chaque magnitude perdue, le nombre
détoiles/dobjets visibles est divisé par 4
- Ile de France
- Vallée du Rhône
- Alpes
- Atlantique
- Centre
- Massif Central
- Provence
- Cote d'Azur
IGN-CielEspace Cinzano-Elvidge Falchi
12Opto Services - AFA study
- 1st study Modelisation
- We want to establish the light pollution
consequences from street lamps from a town on
this sky luminance and determine the max level
threshold meeting our needs. - The report is available on www.afanet.fr
- Pierre-Louis Giscard, Julien Lozi, Jean-Louis
Meyzonnette, Thierry Lepine, Thierry Midavaine
13Geometrical model
14Diffusion laws
15Street lamp model
Cette puissance est ajustable en fonction du
modèle du lampadaire. En effet, les différents
types de lampadaires ne rayonnent pas de la même
manière au dessus de lhorizon. Dans ce modèle,
plus la puissance n est grande, plus le
lampadaire est  bafflé . Pour un lampadaire
boule, on a n 0.
16Flux ratio illuminating the sky vs n
17Ground illumination Elamp/Ftot (m-2) for a 10m
high street lamp vs z from 0 to 20m and vs n from
0 to 8
18Direct contribution from the street lamp and
ground reflected diffusion to the sky
illumination (n4)
En bleu la contribution directe du lampadaire, en
vert la contribution de ce qui est réémis par le
sol, et en rouge la somme des deux.
19Sky zenith luminance, vs h atmospheric
thickness, vs range d from 5 (bottom) to 15km
(up).
20Therefore the zenith sky background luminance for
a 1 lm street light, according to the range d, is
Â
21Log10 sky luminance vs angular elevation on the
source azimuth at d10km range.
22Exemples of sky background mapsSur les
graphiques ci-dessous, léchelle des teintes est
logarithmique, i.e. -9 correspond à 10-9 cd.m-2.
Nous rappelons quil sagit dune représentation
plane dune demi sphère, lazimut (axe des
abscisses) variant de -180 Ã 180 et
linclinaison (axe des ordonnées) de 0 Ã
90.Exemple de calcul pour un flux de 10000
lumens à 10 km.
23A bowl street light (n 0)Â
Puissance de 10 de cd/m2
- Exemple de calcul pour un flux de 10000 lumens
à 10 km, pour - Un lampadaire boule (n 0)Â
-
Angle zénithal
Angle azimutal
24A classical street light (n 4)Â
- Un lampadaire classique (n 4)Â
-
25A baffled street light (n 10)Â
- Un lampadaire plus optimisé (n 10)Â
-
26Variation en fonction de la distance
dobservation source de 10000 lumens, n 4
27d 5 km
28d 10 km
29d 15 km
30Cas de deux sources polluantes de même puissance,
une à d 10 km et ß 30, et lautre à d 15
km et ß -15
31Star visibility
32Facteur de transmission atmosphérique en fonction
de la hauteur
33Éclairement au sol pour des étoiles de magnitudes
entre 5 et 7, et pour des angles entre 20 et 90
(de bas en haut, avec un pas de 10).
Soit pour une étoile de magnitude 6 à 20 E
5,61 10-9lux
34Luminance de la Voie Lactéeen fonction de la
hauteur dans le ciel
35Éclairement seuil détectable en fonction de la
luminance du fond de ciel
36Assemblée générale de lAFA
Dossier  Pollution LumineuseÂ
- Traduction des besoins exprimés par lAFA
Eclairement dune étoile de magnitude 6 à 20
Etoile de magnitude 6 Ã 20, luminance maximum du
ciel
Luminance typique dun bon ciel et luminance
maximum tolérable issue de la pollution
37Assemblée générale de lAFA
Dossier  Pollution LumineuseÂ
- Traduction des besoins exprimés par lAFA
Luminance du ciel pour observer la voie lactée
Travail sur une mire de Foucault pour estimer la
luminance dun fond de ciel
38AFA 2007-2008 member card(proposed by Thierry
Midavaine, Eric Piednoel, Patrick Duchemin)
This card is a shared tool between all the AFA
members. This gray chart may probe the linearity
and the fidelity of complete image process from
the image acquisition to the final display.
Beyond, it allows to judge the illumination
level down town, and to estimate the ground
albedo and the reflected illumination toward the
sky.
39La carte de membre AFA 2007(proposée par Thierry
Midavaine, Eric Piednoel, Patrick Duchemin)
Les densités et entre parenthèses léquivalence
en de laplat.
402nd study 2008
- This study is done by a team in the FIE (Filière
Innovation Entreprise of the French Optical
Institute) Guillaume Maucort, Damien Mayneris,
Nicolas Ferachoglou - The purpose is to build the business case of a
new company Project Pollux. - Proposer un service aux municipalités
doptimisation de léclairage public - Gestion du parc
- Assurer un bel éclairement
- Assurer une protection du ciel nocturne
- Recenser les besoins en éclairage et le
rapprocher de la norme Européenne - Proposer une évolution de léclairage et chiffrer
limpact économique sur les 2 cas pilotes. - Vichères (X00 Habitants 17 lampadaires)
- Mortagne au Perche (Y000 Habitants, Z
lampadaires)
41Parc Naturel Régional du Perche
- Protocole avec le Parc du Perche dans le cadre du
Programme à trois ans Aténée - Il entreprend en partenariat avec lADEME des
actions en faveur de lefficacité énergétique et
de léclairage public. - Sélections de deux communes pilotes dans le Parc
Régional du Perche - Vichères 300 habitants, la commune éteint ses
lumières le soir et supprime les éclairages de
Noël. Plan papier repères de Lambert - Mortagne au Perche 5000 habitants qui doit
renouveler son éclairage prochainement.
42Summer 2008 status
- We are on the way to issue the second report it
includes the photometric measurement performed at
Vichere and the contribution to a multi-source
simulation software. It introduces the basis of
our future Acceptance Test. - From the outputs of the studies, I am writing the
Specification V0. It gathered our quantified
requirements with their respective justification.
43Document breakdown structure
Night Need
Urban Illumination Need
Black Flag Label
Specification
Acceptance Test
RFP, contract and delivery
442008-2009 scheduled activities
- The AFA steering comitee (23/06/08) decided for
the coming year - To support a small town in a pilot process of a
request for proposal to up-date the street lamp
network to validate the V0 specification. - To write the illumination plan chapter to propose
to the town board as local decree.
45Tomorrow towns
- Are able to order a professionnal photometric
expertise on the street lamp network and have the
quantified level of light pollution, - Could get a forecast of the night sky quality if
they up date the street lamp network meeting the
AFA specification. - Could write a local decree defining and planning
the light illumination rules. - Could issue a request for proposal relying on
the AFA Specification and order the Acceptance
Test to a professional expert. - Could be candidate to the AFA black flag Label
assessing their night sky quality,