Quantifying scattered sound energy from a single tree by means of reverberation time

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 264-274

  Yang, Hong Seok ^a   Kang, Jian ^a   Cheal, Chris ^a   Renterghem, Timothy Van ^b   Botteldooren, Dick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY CURVES; GROUND CONDITIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MID-FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; REVERBERATION TIME; SOUND SCATTERING; STREET CANYON;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; REVERBERATION;

FORESTRY;

ACOUSTICS; DISTANCE; FORESTRY;

EID: 84880489849     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4808175     Document Type: Article

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