Reverberation-based urban street sound level prediction

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3929-3939

  Thomas, Pieter ^a   Van Renterghem, Timothy ^a   De Boeck, Ellen ^a   Dragonetti, Laurent ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITY CENTERS; EUROPEAN CITIES; NOISE MAPPING; REFLECTION RATIO; REGRESSION MODEL; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; URBAN STREET CANYON; URBAN STREETS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; NOISE POLLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 84878901356     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4802641     Document Type: Article

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