Noise annoyance caused by continuous descent approaches compared to regular descent procedures

White, K. C.; Arntzen, M.; Walker, Francesco; Waiyaki, Fredrick M.; Meeter, Martijn; Bronkhorst, Adelbert W.

doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.04.008

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“…However, with the industrial revolution, new sound sources have emerged at an unprecedented level and spatial extension, with consequent impacts on natural soundscapes and human health. Terrestrial anthropophony includes sounds from transportation (e.g., road vehicles, trains, snowmobiles, ships, and airplanes; Ernstes and Quinn 2016;Mullet et al 2017b;White et al 2017;Duarte et al 2019), recreational boats (Kariel 1990;Bernardini et al 2019), machinery (e.g., excavation devices, drilling devices, generators, and chain saws; Potočnik and Poje 2010;Deichmann et al 2017), gunshots (Wrege et al 2017), fireworks (Kukulski et al 2018), and outdoor events (Greta et al 2019;Kaiser and Rohde 2013). The intensity of anthropophony correlates with the degree of urbanization (Joo et al 2011;Kuehne et al 2013) and is considered noise pollution with an impact on both human (European Environment Agency [EEA] 2014) and animal health (Barber et al 2010;Shannon et al 2016), potentially affecting entire ecosystems (Pavan 2017).…”

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Analysis of Soundscapes as an Ecological Tool

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Erbe

Pavan

et al. 2022

Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 1

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Soundscapes have been likened to acoustic landscapes, encompassing all the acoustic features of an area. The sounds that make up a soundscape can be grouped according to their source into biophony (sounds from animals), geophony (sounds from atmospheric and geophysical events), and anthropophony (sounds from human activities). Natural soundscapes have changed over time because of human activities that generate sound, alter land-use patterns, remove animals from natural settings, and result in climate change. These human activities have direct and indirect effects on animal distribution patterns and (acoustic) behavior. Consequently, current soundscapes may be very different from those a few hundred years ago. This is of concern as natural soundscapes have ecological value. Losing natural soundscapes may, therefore, result in a loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The study of soundscapes can identify ecosystems undergoing change and potentially document causes (such as noise from human activities). Methods for studying soundscapes range from listening and creating visual (spectrographic) displays to the computation of acoustic indices and advanced statistical modeling. Passive acoustic recording has become an ecological tool for research, monitoring, and ultimately conservation management. This chapter introduces terrestrial and aquatic soundscapes, soundscape analysis tools, and soundscape management.

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Analysis of Soundscapes as an Ecological Tool

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Erbe

Pavan

et al. 2022

Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 1

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“…the aircraft flyover, a sample of a regular descending Airbus 330 aircraft (A330) at 2000 ft (≈610 m). from a previous study44 was used and calibrated for two LAmax values (60 dB(A) and 70 dB(A)) (seeFigure 2). The spectral composition, size, (visual) position and altitude of these flyovers used in this study were identical, in order not to introduce any extra variables.…”

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“…The spectral composition, size, (visual) position and altitude of these flyovers used in this study were identical, in order not to introduce any extra variables. The flyover was clearly visible from the default direction of view.The flights were modelled using the Netherlands Aerospace Centre's (NLR) Virtual Community Noise Simulator (VCNS) that generates a real-time virtual environment in which audio and visual signals are adjusted and synchronized with a head-mounted display and head-tracking headphones44,45 . The sound signals were binaural and based on real-time audio rendering, creating an immersive stereo sound environment around the participant.…”

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Improving the soundscape quality of urban areas exposed to aircraft noise by adding moving water and vegetation

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Karacaoglu

White

et al. 2018

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Research shows that the sight of trees and the sound of moving water improve the soundscape quality of outdoor spaces exposed to road traffic noise. Effects are attributed to non-energetic masking, visual attentional distortion and congruence between sight and hearing. However, there is no literature on such effects for aircraft noise. Aircraft noise varies from other traffic sources, i.e. in terms temporal variability, duration and spectral composition, complicating the application of findings without further research. In a VR experiment reported in this article, participants were asked to rate scenarios with different sound levels of flyovers, urban typologies, vegetation and/ or water features. The results showed a significant improvement of the soundscape quality when 1) vegetation and 2) moving water were present, and especially when 3) vegetation and moving water were presented simultaneously, especially for residential areas in terms of the relative change. Moving water also reduced the saliency of aircraft flyovers significantly, changing the constellation of fore-and background sounds. Moving water raised the perceived audibility of the most dominant sound source too, which could be attributed to non-energetic masking effects. Our findings indicate that soundscape strategies can complement noise abatement in areas prone to aircraft noise.

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Where do planes fly past overhead? Determining departure and arrival routes from radar traces

Dobruszkes

Peeters

2017

Applied Geography

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Noise annoyance caused by continuous descent approaches compared to regular descent procedures

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Analysis of Soundscapes as an Ecological Tool

Analysis of Soundscapes as an Ecological Tool

Improving the soundscape quality of urban areas exposed to aircraft noise by adding moving water and vegetation

Where do planes fly past overhead? Determining departure and arrival routes from radar traces

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