Street categorization for the estimation of day levels using short-term measurements

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 569-577

  Romeu, J ^a   Genesca M ^a   Pmies, T ^a   Jimenez S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Day noise level; Noise level distribution; Noise mapping; Traffic noise

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; ERROR RANGE; LENGTH MEASUREMENT; MAIN ROADS; MEASUREMENT RANGE; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE MAPPING; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAFFIC NOISE; TRAFFIC NOISE MODELS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ESTIMATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NOISE POLLUTION;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 79954628466     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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