Detection and classification of motor vehicle noise in a forested landscape

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1262-1270

  Brown, Casey L ^a   Reed, Sarah E ^b,c   Dietz, Matthew S ^d   Fristrup, Kurt M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Wilderness Society Washington DC   (United States)

^e NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Noise; Road; Soundscape ecology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NOISE; RECREATION PLANNING; ROAD; SOUNDSCAPES; STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION METHODS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CLASSIFICATION; DETECTION METHOD; FOREST; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NOISE; ROAD TRANSPORT;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOREST; LANDSCAPE; MOTOR VEHICLE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; SOUND ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC NOISE; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; NATURAL RESOURCES; NOISE; ROADS; VEHICLES;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

CALIFORNIA; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TREES;

EID: 84888206488     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0123-8     Document Type: Article

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