Speaker: Clemens Arbesser
Noise pollution is an ever increasing problem not just in urban environments but also in more rural areas such as small villages, along country roads or even in very sparsely populated regions. The purpose of this master's thesis was to propose ways to simulate and visualize noise pollution in large-scale, non-urban environments in order to help communicate the impact of new sound emitters on affected neighbors. Knowledge of noise propagation, the influence of the terrain and other obstacles as well as how different emitters add up can provide valuable insights and help in the decision-making process, particularly to set up noise screens at suitable locations and/or to find good places to offset some of the local noise emitters. To this purpose a computer program to create real-time noise visualizations in both 2D and 3D has been developed.