Authors: Papadimitriou, Kimon¹; Mazaris, Antonios²; Kallimanis, Athanasios³; Pantis, John¹

Source: Cartographic Journal, The, Volume 46, Number 2, May 2009 , pp. 126-135(10)

Publisher: Maney Publishing

Abstract:

The description of the landscape is based on the visualization of geographic features and the representation of their attributes. Although sound is a major component of any environment, its cartographic representation is limited mainly on noise mapping and in urban or sub-urban areas. Soundscape is a term that describes the acoustic relation between the environment and the individual in a landscape context, considering all kinds of interactions between space, sound and humans. The representation of the soundscape at a spatial level would support many applications such as geographic analysis, ecosystem evaluation, environmental education, landscape management, urban or rural planning and protection of sonic particularities. This paper proposes a methodology for the mapping of both quantitative and qualitative attributes of a rural soundscape, which is described through the study of the acoustic environment around a protected wetland in Greece.

Keywords: SOUND EVENTS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUNDSCAPE MORPHOLOGY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SOUND ORIGINS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/000870409X459842

Affiliations: 1: Department of Ecology, U.P. Box 119, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece 2: Department of Ecology, U.P. Box 119, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece;, Email: amazaris@bio.auth.gr 3: Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, G. Seferi 2, 30100, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece

Publication date: 2009-05-01

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