Acoustical monitoring research for national parks and wilderness areas

Audio Engineering Society - 119th Convention Fall Preprints 2005

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 766-777

  Maher, Robert C ^a   Gregoire, B Jerry ^a   Chen, Zhixin ^a  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; NATIONAL PARK SYSTEMS; NATIONAL PARKS; NOISE INTRUSIONS; RECREATIONAL VEHICLES; REGULATORY EVALUATION; SOUND LEVEL; SOUNDSCAPES;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84866353275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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