A VR experiment testing the effects of fountain sound and visible vegetation on soundscape quality in areas exposed to aircraft noise

INTER-NOISE 2017 - 46th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering: Taming Noise and Moving Quiet

Volumn 2017-January, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Lugten, Martijn ^a,b   Karacaoglu, Merve ^b   White, Kim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aircraft noise; Soundscape; Urban planning; VR

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; FORESTRY; FOUNTAINS; HOUSING; NOISE POLLUTION; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

ACOUSTIC QUALITY; AIRCRAFT NOISE; EFFECT OF WATER; EXPERIMENT TESTING; OVERALL VISUAL QUALITIES; RESIDENTIAL SITE; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUNDSCAPES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 85042051259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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