Dark Sky Quality of Texas

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The map you see here is a map of  Dark Sky Quality in Texas and the Texas Hill Country. Who in Texas can see the Milky Way from where they live? What areas are impacted by light pollution the most in our state? Questions like this can be answered using GIS.

This past year I have been back in school to learn Geographic Information Systems, a.k.a. GIS. GIS is used to spatially analyze information. It such a useful tool and is being used in almost every industry imaginable. To learn more about the applications of GIS go here.

For my final capstone project through the Austin Community College GIS certificate program, I worked with data from the World Map of Artificial Sky Brightness in order to understand how Texas and the Texas Hill Country region is impacted by light pollution. You can support the authors of World Atlas 2015 by visiting: The New World Atlas of Light Pollution – Paperback and buying it on Amazon

Visit my interactive ESRI StoryMap here https://arcg.is/1XWSnX

World Atlas 2015 data credits: Falchi, Fabio; Cinzano, Pierantonio; Duriscoe, Dan; Kyba, Christopher C. M.; Elvidge, Christopher D.; Baugh, Kimberly; Portnov, Boris; Rybnikova, Nataliya A.; Furgoni, Riccardo (2016): Supplement to: The New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness. GFZ Data Services. http://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.4.2016.001
Falchi F, Cinzano P, Duriscoe D, Kyba CC, Elvidge CD, Baugh K, Portnov BA, Rybnikova NA, Furgoni R. The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness. Science Advances. 2016 Jun 1;2(6):e1600377.