Practical Guide to Sound Technology in Agriculture

The practical guide to sound technology helps with the planning of farms and contributes to the uniform assessment of noise immissions in approval procedures. The emission modelling described makes it possible to determine the sound immissions of agricultural holdings. The guide provides an overview of the required data and representative emissions from agricultural vehicles, equipment and livestock groups (cattle, pigs, chickens, turkeys, geese, horses, sheep and goats). For a better understanding, background information on room acoustics, the determination of the indoor level, the influence of the directional effect on the sound emission, ventilation systems and animal sound emissions are presented. Concrete examples illustrate the use of the guide.