Noise mapping in urban environments: A Taiwan study

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 964-972

  Tsai, Kang Ting ^a   Lin, Min Der ^a   Chen, Yen Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Noise exposure; Noise map; Tainan City

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; NOISE DATUM; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MAP; NOISE MAPPINGS; NOISE MONITORING; REGULATORY STANDARDS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TAINAN CITY; TIME INTERVALS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 63049090011     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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