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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">I'm happy to announce the first release
of opeNoise (v.0.1), an experimental QGIS plugin that allows to
compute the noise level generated by road traffic at fixed receiver
points and buildings.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">I hope it can be useful and you want to
test it and give me some feedback.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">You can download it from the QGIS
official repository (experimental plugins).</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Thanks to all!</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">All the best,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Stefano</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">MORE INFO:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The plugin is created by Arpa Piemonte
(<a href="http://www.arpa.piemonte.it/">www.arpa.piemonte.it</a>),
with the support of Città di Torino (www.comune.torino.it). Contacts: s.masera@arpa.piemonte.it, enrico.gallo@comune.torino.it.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The calculation is based on the French
national computation method NMPB-Routes-96, as indicated in the
DIRECTIVE 2002/49/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of
25 June 2002 relating to the assessment and management of
environmental noise.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Please consider the following
semplifications:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">- the modelization is 2D (only the
distance receiver points - roads is calculated considering the
receiver points at 4m on the ground);</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">- no reflections or diffractions are
calculated;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">- the terrain is flat.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Repository:
https://github.com/Arpapiemonte/openoise</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Bugs:
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/openoise</p>
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