A Proposal for Acoustic Data Collection in Parks and Wilderness Areas

摘要

Over the past ten years, HMMH has worked with The U.S. National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to develop an approach for assessing sounds in U.S. National Parks. Currently, the work by HMMH and other consultants to the NPS has focused on developing technical information for use in a guidance manual that will describe procedures to document and preserve the existing natural acoustic environments (soundscapes) and to manage noise intrusions in U.S. National Parks. Based on the accumulated work of the past decade, the author offers a method for acoustic data collection in park / wilderness settings that addresses the many special considerations that arise in these special acoustic environments.