Spatiotemporal variability of soundscapes in a multiple functional urban area

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Liu, Jiang ^a,b,c   Kang, Jian ^c   Luo, Tao ^a   Behm, Holger ^b   Coppack, Timothy ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d Inst for Appl Agricultural Ecology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human perception; Landscape spatial pattern; Soundscape mapping; Urban planning; Urban soundscape

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; URBAN PLANNING;

HUMAN PERCEPTION; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SOUNDSCAPES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; URBAN SOUNDSCAPE;

URBAN GROWTH;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NDVI; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

GERMANY; MECKLENBURG-WEST POMERANIA; ROSTOCK;

EID: 84877667863     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.03.008     Document Type: Article

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