A Vehicle-Mounted Photometric Rig for Suburban Festive-Light Displays
A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reports the build and first field season of LUMEN, a roof-mounted calibrated luminance camera driven at 15 km/h past 212 nominated festive-light displays across 34 suburbs. Rig and handheld boundary reference agree closely (ICC = 0.89), a display takes 2.1 minutes against 14.3 for a walk-up survey, and 94 per cent of nominated displays return a usable kerbside profile, with display class separating the luminance distributions far less than the nomination listing's categories imply.
| Authors | Bram Ntuli , Osei Vandermeer , Anouk Mensah |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Funding | Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Standing a Second Gauge Beside a Suburb's Volunteer Rain Reading Before Its Reader Retires ( $386,921) Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Formalising the Handover of a Neighbourhood Tool Library's Loan Ledger ( $71,238) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.tsu4na |
| Pages | 1 |
| Cited by | 4 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_tsu4na,
author = {Bram Ntuli and Osei Vandermeer and Anouk Mensah},
title = {LUMEN: A Vehicle-Mounted Photometric Rig for Suburban Festive-Light Displays},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.tsu4na},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-kerbside-luminance-of-tsu4na/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}