Measurement of reverberation gain in an urban environment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1417-1426

  Mijić, Miomir ^a   Šumarac Pavlović, Dragana ^a  

^a University of Belgrade   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; BELGRADE; NOISE LEVELS; OCTAVE BANDS; RECORDED SIGNALS; REVERBERATION TIME; SOUND EXCITATION; SOUND SOURCE; SURROUNDING BUILDINGS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERBIA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; URBAN POPULATION; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; NOISE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERBIA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 84866277486     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742731     Document Type: Article

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