Floodlight

Floodlights
Association football field at a sports center illuminated with floodlights.

A floodlight is a broad-beamed, high-intensity artificial light. It can provide functional area lighting[1] for travel-ways, parking, entrances, work areas, and sporting venues to enable visibility adequate for safe task performance, ornamental lighting for advertising, façades, monuments, or support perimeter security.[2] Floodlights are often used to illuminate outdoor playing fields while an outdoor sports event is being held during low-light conditions. More focused kinds are often used as a stage lighting instrument in live performances such as concerts and plays.

Floodlights may also be used to add effects to buildings at night, called architectural illumination.[3]

Floodlights at Adelaide Airport.
  1. ^ Narisada, K (2004) Light Pollution Handbook Springer ISBN 978-1-4020-2666-9 p37
  2. ^ Haas & Reid (1928) Floodlighting GE Bulletin 54
  3. ^ Architecture of the Night : A Series of Articles Published by the General Electric Company to Suggest the Possibilities of Architectural Illumination at the Internet Archive