Traffic noise mapping of Indian roads through smartphone user community participation
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- 作者：Rajiv Kumar ; Abhijit Mukherjee ; V. P. Singh
- 关键词：Noise pollution ; Environment noise monitoring ; Community participation ; Fuzzy logic ; Google® map ; Noise map ; Smartphone
- 刊名：Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：189
- 期：1
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Environmental Management; Ecotoxicology; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Ecology;
- 出版者：Springer International Publishing
- ISSN：1573-2959
- 卷排序：189
文摘
Road traffic noise pollution is a global hazard, and rapid urbanization has aggravated the problem. This paper explores a novel approach which involves a smartphone user community to monitor the prevalent noise. The system involves a client application on smartphones that records noise, processes the information and communicates to a server and shares the information as visual noise levels on Google® Maps. A fuzzy logic-based classification of noise is proposed. Results from residential, commercial, and industrial areas of the northern region of India are demonstrated. The noise levels are generally found to be higher than the prescribed standards. The experiment demonstrates the huge potential of user community participation in monitoring noise pollution.