A-weighting sometimes works for assessing environmental noise-sort of; it should be retired

Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2006

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 4914-4923

  Schomer, Paul D ^a  

^a Schomer and Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE INVERSE; DESCRIPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; HUMAN HEARING; LOW-FREQUENCY ENERGY; ROAD TRAFFIC;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; EXHIBITIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84867921474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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