SoundPLANessential

SoundPLAN Essential Noise Models can include:

• Transportation Sources (Road, Railroads, Parking lots)
• General Community Noise Sources (Plant, Substation, Wind Energy, Restaurants, Amphitheater, Car Wash, Mining Operation.
  The source are entered as point, line and area sources with 1/1 and 1/3 Octave Band Noise Source sound power levels (1 Hz to 20 kHz)

SoundPLAN Essential Modeling Objects include:

• Elevation lines and Spot Elevations – the objects are used to generate a digital ground model (DGM). The DGM is a continuously triangulated mesh.
• Noise Protection Walls and Noise Protection Berms (e.g., obstacles)
• Buildings (e.g., reflective surface and obstacle)
• Mitigation Areas (i.e., Forest or Housing)
• Ground Definition (i.e., how absorptive / reflective is the ground)
• Receptors and Calculation Area

SoundPLAN Essential Features:

• Any model size project – no limits in number of objects
• Interfacing to Google Maps for geo-referenced aerials and topographical information (i.e., spot elevation)
• Import of Open Street Map information (i.e, buildings outline, road & rail alignment, ..) 
• DXF and GIS Shape File import, or digitize from bitmaps (i.e., aerial or drawings, import building outline, point, line and area objects)
• Easy presentation of scenario with or without a noise protection barrier
• Calculations based on Digital Ground Model
• Local modeling standards (e.g., TNM, ISO 9613, FTA/FRA)
• Easy to use graphical data interface

• Striking grid noise and contour maps

Result Tables and Graphics:

The emission level calculations and the results of the noise propagation are presented in tabular form in predefined tables. Additional text can be added for map descriptions and you can customize the layout for each object.

• Tabular documentation of source properties
• Documentation of source contribution levels
• Level tables show the noise level for all floors and time slices
• Limit contour lines option