A geospatial model of ambient sound pressure levels in the contiguous United States

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2746-2764

  Mennitt, Daniel ^a   Sherrill, Kirk ^a   Fristrup, Kurt ^a  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; DECISION TREES; FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

ACOUSTICAL MEASUREMENTS; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; MAPPING CAPABILITIES; MEDIAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CITY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; NOISE; PRESSURE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC NOISE; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CITIES; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PRESSURE; SEASONS; SOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84900394561     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4870481     Document Type: Article

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