Mapping urban environmental noise using smartphones

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Zuo, Jinbo ^a   Xia, Hao ^a   Liu, Shuo ^a   Qiao, Yanyou ^a  

^a Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth   (China)

Author keywords

Noise map; Participatory sensing; Smartphone; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; SMARTPHONES; WIND EFFECTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; INTERPOLATION METHOD; INTERPOLATION PRECISION; NOISE MAP; ORDINARY KRIGING METHODS; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 84991672161     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s16101692     Document Type: Article

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