Investigation of the noise reduction provided by tree belts

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 187-195

  Fang, Chih Fang ^a   Ling, Der Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Noise reduction; Tree belt

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ATTENUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

LOGARITHMS;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

NOISE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; TREE;

EID: 0038712239     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00190-1     Document Type: Article

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