Advances in Outdoor Acoustic Surveillance and Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Outdoor acoustic surveillance plays a big role in our daily lives. Outdoor noises are a corollary to transports, industries and urbanization. Noise reduction and control are a primary concern of planning strategies, with noise mapping, action plans, etc., and motivate the growing interest for acoustic monitoring in smart cities. Outdoor sounds are also a unique source of information on their origin. Acoustic sensing can be used in applications such as monitoring activities in a surveyed area, localizing events by their acoustic footprint (accidents, shootings), and monitoring specific animal species. Finally, active acoustic sensing allows measuring atmospheric properties.

In general, these applications face some similar challenges and avenues for progress. Rapid changes are appearing in the collection of acoustic signals, with the emergence and spread of innovative sensors (e.g., directional, low-cost) and sensor systems (e.g., distributed sensing, with relay and fusion). Algorithmic signal processing is undergoing breakthroughs, with increases in dataset availability and in computing capacity, enabling advanced, fast, and reliable calculations. The outdoor environment is increasingly well documented, and its effect on the signals can be taken into account to improve sensing performance and/or decision aid.

This Special Issue aims at promoting high-quality papers on outdoor acoustic surveillance. Contributions may illustrate how the above emerging trends lead to research results in their application field, with original sensing approaches or innovative processing/modeling strategies. Review papers on the state-of-art on some applications are also very welcome, as spanning over the diversity of applications is an important objective of the Special Issue.

We cordially invite you to submit a high-quality research paper or review to this Special Issue, “Advances in Outdoor Acoustic Surveillance and Sensing”.

Dr. Sylvain Cheinet
Guest Editor

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• acoustic surveillance
• acoustic processing
• applied acoustics
• outdoor sensing
• sound propagation
• outdoor noise control