Distance from Railroads - Explanatory Variable Raster for Soundscape Model Training - Continental United States
NPS Natural Sounds and Night Skies and Inventory and Monitoring Divisions. 2013. Distance from Railroads - Explanatory Variable Raster for Soundscape Model Training - Continental United States
This dataset is a potential explanatory metric (variable) for soundscape modeling efforts. These explanatory metrics attempt to measure the complex biological, geophysical and anthropogenic sources and interactions which constitute a soundscape (Mennitt D., K. Fristrup, and K. Sherrill. 2014, Pijanowski et al. 2011) across national parks and their surrounding landscapes. More specifically, the derived metrics from the Soundscape Modeling Geospatial Database (SMGB) have been used as training data in random forest (Breiman, L. 2001) soundscape models.
- Type
- Raster Dataset
- Authors
- NPS Natural Sounds and Night Skies and Inventory and Monitoring Divisions
- Date of Issue
- 2013-03
- Units
- IMD , NSNS , NSNSD
- Keywords
- acoustic modeling, ambient sound pressure, Continental United States, Natural sounds, NPS Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, NPS Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division, Soundscape
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Human Use | Non-point Source Human Effects | Non-point Source Human Effects , Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Soundscape | Soundscape