quantitykind:Luminance

PredicateObject
rdf:type qudt:QuantityKind
dcterms:description Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. It describes the amount of light that passes through or is emitted from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
qudt:applicableUnit
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qudt:dbpediaMatch http://dbpedia.org/resource/Luminance
qudt:hasDimensionVector qkdv:A0E0L-2I1M0H0T0D0
qudt:iec61360Code “0112/2///62720#UAD090”
qudt:informativeReference
qudt:latexDefinition \(L_v = \frac{dI_v}{dA}\), where \(dI_v\) is the luminous intensity of an element of the surface with the area \(dA\) of the orthogonal projection of this element on a plane perpendicular to the given direction.
qudt:plainTextDescription “Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. It describes the amount of light that passes through or is emitted from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.”
qudt:siExactMatch si-quantity:LUMA
qudt:symbol “L_v”
qudt:wikidataMatch http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q355386
rdfs:comment “Applicable units are those of quantitykind:Luminance”
rdfs:isDefinedBy http://qudt.org/3.1.10/vocab/quantitykind
rdfs:label “Luminance”@en
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