Quality assessment of quiet areas: A multi-criteria approach

EURONOISE 2006 - The 6th European Conference on Noise Control: Advanced Solutions for Noise Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Botteldooren, Dick ^a   De Coensel, Bert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; HUMAN LISTENERS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH; NOISE EVENTS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE POLICY; OBJECTIVE DEFINITION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SOUNDSCAPES; STATE OF THE ART; SURROUNDING REGIONS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL;

EID: 84872487399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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