IlluminanceUnits Type ⤴
Illuminance (also know as luminous emittance or luminous flux per area), is the total luminous flux incident on a surface, per unit area. It is a measure of the intensity of the incident light, wavelength-weighted by the luminosity function to correlate with human brightness perception.
Term
illuminance
Category
Photometry
Provenance
QUDT
Provenance Uri
http://qudt.org/vocab/quantity#Illuminance
Note
-
Default Unit
Lux (lx); Lumen per square meter (lm/m^2)
Dimension Symbol
U1L-2J1
Dimension Length
1
Dimension Mass
-2
Dimension Time
0
Dimension Current
0
Dimension Temperature
0
Dimension Amount
0
Dimension Light
0