Resumen de Hacia una definición de los indicadores de la calidad Sonora del ambiente exterior y su aplicación al SIG, casos: El Ensanche de Barcelona y Vilnius
The specific issue that arises is to have an acoustic space characterization of an acoustic environment that is passed through a GIS in a particular city, in this case taken from Barcelona’s Eixample. Exposure to noise (unwanted sound or potentially dangerous) at home, at work, while traveling and during leisure activities is a fact of life for all. Sometimes the noise can be loud enough to damage hearing, and at lower levels can disrupt normal life, affect sleep patterns, and affect our ability to concentrate at work, interfere with communications and even cause accidents.
Clearly, exposure to excessive noise can affect our quality of life.
If we want to obtain the Quiet (Q), silenced, or positive sounds, we must look for some parameters, and in fact the European standards require it, and the state standards begin to establish guidelines on this matter. There are physicists and engineers who are on the path to do so (they are starting to look for it)... but are lacking the assistance of architects, planners, and people worried about sound quality and aesthetics, Aesthetics of a Sound Space. For example: «I feel very good here, but why? Why do you feel good when you are in a place that perhaps is in a louder level of sound? (but being a sound, not a noise)» Everyone interprets it as he/she wants, so listening to birds even at a very high level, even if they are parrots, can ultimately be something pleasurable for us to hear. Recall that our hearing is the most important sense of communication, because it receives emotions and sensations. Caring for our hearing not only helps maintain a good listener, but also allows us to have good spatial orientation, warns us of a hazard near or far, and enjoy, understand, and assimilate the sentiments expressed by the message sender. For this we rely on the concept of Psychoacoustics.
