Technical Reports and Guides

CIE 054.2-2001 01-Jan-2001

CIE 054.2-2001

Retroreflection: Definition and measurement 

Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage / 01-Jan-2001 / 58 pages
ISBN: 9783900734992

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Description

The purpose of this report is to update and replace CIE 54 - 1982 Retroreflection: Definition and Measurement. 

This report is divided into nine main sections. These begin with chapter 2 which is concerned with general definitions of retroreflection, while chapter 3 defines geometrical terms. 

Chapter 4 combines their collection into four geometric systems applicable for different elements of the retroreflection phenomena. 

Chapter 5 defines the photometric terminology as did the original publication 54, but defines the photometric terms with reference to spectroradiometric concepts as is the current international standards procedure. 

The corresponding laboratory calibration and measurement techniques are described in the next section, chapter 6, together with basic instrument requirements and traceability to national metrology laboratories. 

To relate the driver's geometry to the four systems, vector notation and a series of typical examples are given in chapter 7. This approach will aid the transportation community in accessing the necessary discrete angles to assure procurement compliance and the field service life of retroreflective devices and materials. 

An important section in the original publication 54, dealing with the colorimetry of retroreflectors, is expanded in chapter 8 to include new instrumentation presently available and to recommend standard test geometries for both daytime and nighttime measurements. 

A new section, chapter 9, describes general field instruments available for in-situ measurements of retroreflectors. Included in this section is a guide for manufacturers to use in their specifications, listing important parameters of the instruments which can be a part of the data sheet. 

Lastly, chapter 10 addresses the computer format for retroreflectance data in order to allow measurement results to be exchanged world-wide. 

Four appendices complete the report with all the transformation equations between the four systems with examples, a list of keywords, data format examples and a treatise on aperture synthesis. 

The complete Technical Report consists of 58 pages with 20 figures, among them 13 coloured ones and 9 tables, and is readily available at the CIE National Committees or the CIE Central Bureau in Vienna.

CIE 053-1982 01-Jan-1982

CIE 053-1982

Calculations for interior lighting: Applied method 

Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage / 01-Jan-1982 / 35 pages
ISBN: 9789290340539

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Description

Procedures are outlined for characterizing the performance of radiometers, with special attention to photometers. Quantitative methods are given for evaluating the most important errors. These include: 

  • systematic calibration errors; 
  • errors caused by non-standard spectral response; 
  • non-standard spatial evaluation of 
  •    --irradiance (illuminance), 
       --spherical irradiance (illuminance), 
       --cylindrical irradiance (illuminance) or 
       --radiance (luminance); 
  • non-linearity; 
  • fatigue; 
  • temperature coefficient. 

Ways of judging the significance of less important aspects are suggested. These include: 

  • reading error; 
  • effect of modulated radiation; 
  • influence of polarization; 
  • non-uniform response; 
  • detector instability; 
  • zero drift. 

The report deals with general problems of evaluation of photometric and radiometric instruments. Numerical requirements for individual types of instruments in later reports are not included. 

The report includes tables of the relative spectral distributions of five special sources that can be used to estimate the quality of the V(lambda) correction of photometer heads. 

This Technical Report has been supplemented by CIE 69-1987 Methods of Characterizing Illuminance Meters and Luminance Meters. 

The report consists of 30 pages, 3 figures and 1 table.