Listening to Landscapes: Modelling Past Soundscapes in GIS

Table of Contents

• Summary

• Table of Figures
• 1.0 The Current Setting
• 2.0 Aural Perception
  • 2.1 Perception
  • 2.2 Seeing and hearing
    • 2.2.1 The soundscape
    • 2.2.2 Social life of sounds
• 3.0 Modelling Perception
  • 3.1 Space and topology
  • 3.2 Time
  • 3.3 Scale
  • 3.4 Representation of agents
• 4.0 Building the Soundscape
  • 4.1 Study area
  • 4.2 Modelling past sounds in GIS
  • 4.3 Acoustic space
    • 4.3.1 Binary acoustic horizons
    • 4.3.2 Fuzzy acoustic horizons
    • 4.3.3 A digital model of acoustic space
  • 4.4 A digital soundscape model
  • 4.5 Rather than results...
• 5.0 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Model implementation notes
• The model in action
  • Downloading and installation
  • Sample session

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