Urban background sound recordings for virtual acoustics under various weather conditions at IHTApark

This is an open database of calibrated background sound recordings with metadata on meteorological and acoustical parameters ready to be used in virtual reality applications, for soundsacpe studies. The soundscapes have been recorded at the IHTApark (green space next to the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics) in Aachen (Germany) in winter and spring of 2022. They have been segemented into 30-seconds auralizable snippets. For an interactive exploration of the soundscapes, please visit the follwing website: https://paad-group.github.io/IHTApark-ambient-recordings/ The dabase is available as binaural files, first-order ambisonics files, and as omni files. The metadata is included as a .xlsx file.