An improved system and method for illumination source identification from above the earth's surface

Abstract

A vehicle contains a light-detection module that operates to capture and analyze light emitted from a plurality of sources on the surface of the Earth, while the vehicle is flying above the surface of the Earth. The light detection module is operatively coupled to a processing module with access to a data bank module comprising optical emission spectra data values and flicker spectra data values characteristic of two or more artificial illumination source present on the surface of the Earth. In some cases, the vehicle may, for example, be a satellite, a drone, an airplane, or a balloon.

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