Urban soundscape mapping based on GIS

GIS를 이용한 도시 사운드스케이프 지도화

  • 홍주영 (한양대학교 건축음향 연구실) ;
  • 김재현 (한양대학교 건축음향 연구실) ;
  • 전진용 (한양대학교 건축음향 연구실)
  • Published : 2014.10.29

Abstract

Urban sound environments consists of various sound sources such as traffic noise, sounds of people and natural sounds affecting the perception of soundscape in a place. However, noise maps based on sound pressure levels could not distinguish different sound sources and limited to represent perception of acoustic environments. Accordingly, soundscape map based on perception of sounds is necessary to provide useful information for the description of the acoustic environment. Therefore, the aims of this study are to examine soundscape perception in different urban contexts including commercial, office, park and residential spaces and to suggest a method for soundscape maps using GIS techniques. Soundscape perceptions and physical characteristics of acoustic environments at various urban contexts were obtained from surveys and acoustic measurements, respectively. The results show that dominant factors affecting soundscape perceptions were different in urban contexts and spatial variations of urban soundscape are closely related to various urban contexts.

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