On monitoring community noise using arbitrarily chosen measurement periods

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 649-661

  Ng, C H ^a   Tang, S K ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Community noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMMUNITY NOISE; NOISE LEVEL RECORDING; SHORT TIME SPAN MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 44049088224     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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