Browsing Articles publicats en revistes by Author "Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria"
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Low-Cost Distributed Acoustic Sensor Network for Real-Time Urban Sound Monitoring
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Navarro Martín, Joan; Borda Fortuny, Cristina; Stowell, Dan; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Electronics, 2020, Vol. 9, No. 12, 2020-12)Continuous exposure to urban noise has been found to be one of the major threats to citizens’ health. In this regard, several organizations are devoting huge efforts to designing new in-field systems ... -
Mapping the Sound Environment of Andorra and Escaldes-Engordany by Means of a 3D City Model Platform
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Vilella, Marc; Pons, Marc; García Almazán, Robert (Urban Science. 2019, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2019-08)In the new paradigm of the smart cities world, public opinion is one of the most important issues in the new conception of urban space and its corresponding regulations. The data collection in terms of ... -
Narrowband and Wideband Channel Sounding of an Antarctica to Spain Ionospheric Radio Link
Hervás García, Marcos; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Altadill Felip, David; Pijoan Vidal, Joan Lluís; Badia Folguera, David (Remote Sensing. 2015, Vol.7, 2015-09)La Salle and Ebro Observatory have been involved in remote sensing projects in Antarctica for the last 11 years (approximately one solar cycle). The Ebro Observatory has been monitoring and analyzing ... -
Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Bellucci, Patrizia; Paolo Cartolano, Pier; Coppa, Ilaria; Peruzzi, Laura; Bisceglie, Alessandro; Zambon, Giovanni (Noise Mapp, 2020, 7, 2020-11)The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions ... -
Noise Events Monitoring for Urban and Mobility Planning in Andorra la Vella and Escaldes-Engordany
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; García Almazán, Robert; Vilella, Marc; Pons, Marc (Environments. 2019. Vol. 6, No.2, 2019-03)Noise pollution is a critical factor and it has an important impact on public health, with the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several illnesses in urban areas of particular concern. ... -
On the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Urban and Suburban Environments
Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 2017.15.1, 2017-12)Noise pollution is a critical factor affecting public health, the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several diseases in urban areas being especially disturbing. The Environmental Noise ... -
Physical Layer Definition for a Long-Haul HF Antarctica to Spain Radio Link
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hervás García, Marcos; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Pijoan Vidal, Joan Lluís; Badia Folguera, David; Altadill Felip, David (Remote Sensing. 2016. Vol.8 No.5 (Maig), 2016-05)La Salle and the Observatori de l’Ebre (OE) have been involved in a remote sensing project in Antarctica for the last 11 years. The OE has been monitoring the geomagnetic activity for more than twenty ... -
Pipistrellus pipistrellus and Pipistrellus pygmaeus in the Iberian Peninsula: An Annotated Segmented Dataset and a Proof of Concept of a Classifier in a Real Environment
Bertrán Pérez-Hickman, Marta; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Tena López, Elena (Applied Sciences. 2019. Vol. 9 ,No. 17, 2019-08)Bats have an important role in the ecosystem, and therefore an effective detection of their prevalence can contribute to their conservation. At present, the most commonly methodology used in the study ... -
Polarization diversity in a long-haul transequatorial HF link from Antarctica to Spain
Bergadà Caramés, Pau; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hervás García, Marcos (Radio Science. 2017. Vol.52 Nº.1 (Gener), 2017-01)This paper describes a set of experiments which examine the feasibility of applying polarization diversity to a 12,760 km ionospheric link from Livingston Island (62.6°S, 60.4°W), South Shetlands, to ... -
Radio communication via Near Vertical Incidence Skywave propagation: an overview
Witvliet, Ben A.; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Telecommunication Systems. 2017, Vol. 66, 2017-02)Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS) propagation can be used for radio communication in a large area (200 km radius) without any intermediate man-made infrastructure. It is therefore especially suited ... -
Real-Time Distributed Architecture for Remote Acoustic Elderly Monitoring in Residential-Scale Ambient Assisted Living Scenarios
Navarro Martín, Joan; Vidaña Vila, Ester; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hervás García, Marcos (Sensors. 2018, Vol. 18, No.8., 2018-08)Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) has become a powerful alternative to improving the life quality of elderly and partially dependent people in their own living environments. In this regard, tele-care and ... -
Remote Geophysical Observatory in Antarctica with HF data transmission: a Review
Pijoan Vidal, Joan Lluís; Altadill Felip, David; Torta Margalef, Joan Miquel; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Marsal Vinadé, Santiago; Badia Folguera, David (Remote Sensing. 2014, Vol.6 (Juliol), 2014-07)The geophysical observatory in the Antarctic Spanish Station Juan Carlos I (ASJI) in Livingston Island has been monitoring the magnetic field in the Antarctic region for more than fifteen years. In 2004, ... -
Review of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Journal of Sensors. 2019, 2019-05)Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Since this proportion is expected to keep rising, the sustainable development of cities is of paramount importance to guarantee ... -
Smart Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network Design for Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Bellucci, Patrizia; Zambon, Giovanni (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)This Special Issue is focused on all the technologies necessary for the development of anefficient wireless acoustic sensor network, from the first stages of its design to the tests conductedduring ... -
Sons al balcó: Soundscape Map of the Confinement in Catalonia
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Mallol Parera, Roger; Freixes Guerreiro, Marc; Baño Coral, Xavier; Foraster Pulido, Maria (Engineering Proceedings, 2020, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020-11)In this project, we aim to study the effect that the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused on the perception of noise in Catalonia. In Sons al Balcó, the research activities cohabit with the ... -
Towards Automatic Bird Detection: An Annotated and Segmented Acoustic Dataset of Seven Picidae Species
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Navarro Martín, Joan; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Data, 2017. Vol. 2, 2, 2017-03)Analysing behavioural patterns of bird species in a certain region enables researchers to recognize forthcoming changes in environment, ecology, and population. Ornithologists spend many hours observing ... -
Variation of Ionospheric Narrowband and Wideband Performance for a 12,760 km Transequatorial Link and Its Dependence on Solar and Ionospheric Activity
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Altadill Felip, David; Hervás García, Marcos; Blanch Llosa, Estefania; Segarra, Antoni; González Sans, Xavier (Remote Sensing, 2020, Vol.12 no 17, 2020-08)The ionosphere provides a channel that is able to propagate electromagnetic waves for long-haul communications, allowing Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) radio communications in the high-frequency band (HF). ... -
Vertical and Oblique ionospheric soundings over the long haul HF link between Antarctica and Spain
Ads, Ahmed Gamal; Bergadà Caramés, Pau; Regué, Joan Ramon; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Pijoan Vidal, Joan Lluís; Altadill Felip, David; Badia Folguera, David; Graells Castellà, Simó (Radio Science. 2015, Vol. 50, No.9 (Setembre), 2015-09)This paper presents a comparative study between the oblique sounding results, theInternational Telecommunication Union Rec533 HF prediction model, and the vertical sounding results of atransequatorial ... -
Vertical and oblique ionospheric soundings performance comparison over the 12,760 km transequatorial HF link between Antarctica and Spain
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hervás García, Marcos; Altadill Felip, David; Calduch Casas, Jordi; Blanch Llosa, Estefania (Radio Science. 2017. Vol.52, No.4 (Abril), 2017-03)This paper presents the second part of the study of the oblique sounding of a 12,760 km transequatorial ionospheric link between Livingston Island (Antarctica) and Cambrils in Spain. The study consists ... -
WASN-Based Day–Night Characterization of Urban Anomalous Noise Events in Narrow and Wide Streets
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)In addition to air pollution, environmental noise has become one of the major hazards for citizens, being Road Traffic Noise (RTN) as its main source in urban areas. Recently, low-cost Wireless Acoustic ...