Good practice in the use of noise mapping software

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 527-533

  Manvell, Douglas ^a   Hartog Van Banda, Erwin ^b  

^a Bruel & Kjaer Danmark   (Denmark)

^b Softnoise   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental noise calculation software; Good practice; Noise mapping

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION SOFTWARE; DOCUMENTATION OF SOFTWARE; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; GOOD PRACTICE; GOOD PRACTICES; INPUT DATAS; MAJOR FACTORS; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE MAPPING; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; WORKING GROUPS;

MAPPING; NOISE POLLUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 79954630550     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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