title: Hypothesis of acoustic characterisation of a 'life place'.
abstract: In this job a hypothesis of descriptive mathematical model is described that permits to characterize the destined areas to the conservation of the nature and the life places ("biotope"), to the aim to define the degree of existing problems, from the acoustic point of view. In agreement with European Directive 2002/49/CE (Attached I), the additional acoustic indications more adapted to the characterization of "silent zones in opened campain" have been characterized. Primary purpose of the present study is to recognize and to characterize single present sources of noise in a life place, distinguishing living natural sources from those unliving ones, and anthropic technological ones from those anthropic social ones, concentrating the attention on the definition of a weighting criterion for the produced acoustic impact from several elements of pressure that interact on a protected natural area. The data collection is in course; the result will serve to define the intervals of the acceptability classes.
authors.affiliation: A.R.P.A. PIEMONTE, Dipartimento Provinciale di Asti, Area Agenti Fisici 8, Via Cattedrale, Asti 14100, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Varaldi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Duretto
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Giordanengo
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000465:Algorithms; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009622:Noise; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors; D013018:Sound Spectrography / Q000379:methods*