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Quiet areas in Europe

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Created 10 Mar 2020 Published 10 Mar 2020 Last modified 16 Feb 2022

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Topics: Environment and health

The quietness suitability index (QSI) provides the overview with the highest (QSI=1) and lowest (QSI=0) proportion of potential quiet areas in Europe.

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Quiet areas in Europe

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Geographic accuracy:

Grid: 100 m cells

Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Methodology:

Suitable distance layer from noise sources built following a fuzzy approach (*), calculating the 'membership' to the quietness range (0–1) by means of a linear relationship, considering the mean value obtained as no suitable (= 0) and maximum distance obtained as suitable (= 1). The distance values between not suitable (mean value) and suitable (maximum value) will be reassigned with a new value between 0 and 1 following a linear equation.

(*) The production of threshold distance layers around noise sources has been made following a fuzzy approach rather than obtaining a buffer with sharp limits. Membership to a 0-1 range has been obtained according to a linear function.

Full methodology: Good practice guide on quiet areas.Technical report No 4/2014
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas

Coordinate reference system:

EPSG:3035

Data sources

European Topic Centre - Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Núria Blanes; nuria.blanes@uab.cat

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Processors:

European Topic Centre on Air pollution and Climate change mitigation (ETC/ACM)

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Geographic coverage

Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom