Past Research on Sound Propagation through Forests

Abstract

This report reviews past scientific research to determine whether forests have any noise reduction effects for blast noise from artillery training or explosions. Unfortunately, there has been very little relevant work that would contribute to answering this question. For military noise sources, the main frequencies of interest are below 100 Hz. Most of the past investigations have been done at high frequencies using low-amplitude continuous wave noise sources rather than high-amplitude impulsive sources. For these reasons, additional measurements will be needed to determine the effect of forests on artillery and blast noise.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427598

Entities

People

  • Donald G. Albert

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Absorption
  • Acoustic Attenuation
  • Acoustic Impedance
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Acoustic Properties
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Diffraction
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Forests
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Literature Surveys
  • Regions
  • Scattering
  • Temperature Gradients

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.