Spatiotemporal analysis of an acoustic environment: Interactions between landscape features and sounds

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 817-831

  Mazaris, Antonios D ^a   Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^b   Chatzigianidis, George ^a   Papadimitriou, Kimonas ^a   Pantis, John D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acoustic similarity; Background sounds; Ecological modeling; Foreground sounds; Local scale variables; Soundscape

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; GEOPHYSICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PROTECTED AREA; SIGNAL; SOUND PROPAGATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349437170     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9360-x     Document Type: Article

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