Innovative Data Capture and Presentation Techniques in Support of the EU Environmental Noise Directive

The Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland (EPA) funded from 2006 to 2007 a research project to develop methodologies to meet data-related challenges arising under the European Union (EU) Environmental Noise Directive (END) (2002/49/EC) for Ireland. The research project sought to assess the role of advanced ground-based spatial video and also aerial digital photography in the creation of data required for suitably accurate noise modelling in road environments