The effects of audio-visual factors on perceptions of environmental noise barrier performance

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-37

  Hong, Joo Young ^a   Jeon, Jin Yong ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Audio visual interaction; Environment; Noise barriers; Soundscape perception; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; NOISE ABATEMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTIC; AUDIO-VISUAL INTERACTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; NOISE BARRIERS; SOUNDSCAPES; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC DATA; NOISE POLLUTION; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898890274     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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