Quality labels for the quiet rural soundscape

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

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3493-3500

  Botteldooren, Dick ^a   De Coensel, Bert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAILY ACTIVITY; FIELD STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION; LIMITING VALUES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOW BACKGROUND; MOTORIZED TRAFFIC; MULTI-CRITERION; NOISE EVENTS; QUALITY LABELS; QUALITY LEVELS; RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENT; RURAL VILLAGES; SOUND LEVEL; SOUNDSCAPES; SPECTRAL CONTENT;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; EXHIBITIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL;

EID: 84867956908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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