Browsing Articles publicats en revistes by Author "Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria"
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A WASN-Based Suburban Dataset for Anomalous Noise Event Detection on Dynamic Road-Traffic Noise Mapping
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Sensors. 2019, Vol. 19, No. 11, 2019-05)Traffic noise is presently considered one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. Several recent technological advances have allowed a step forward in the dynamic computation of road-traffic ... -
Acoustic Description of Bird Broiler Vocalisations in a Real-Life Intensive Farm and Its Impact on Animal Welfare: A Comparative Analysis of Recordings
Ginovart Panisello, Gerardo José; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Panisello Monjo, Tesa (Engineering Proceedings, 2020, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2020-11)The poultry meat industry is one of the most efficient biological systems to transform cereal protein into high quality protein for human consumption at a low cost. However, to supply the increasing ... -
Acoustic Description of the Soundscape of a Real-Life Intensive Farm and Its Impact on Animal Welfare: A Preliminary Analysis of Farm Sounds and Bird Vocalisations
Ginovart Panisello, Gerardo José; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Iriondo Sanz, Ignasi; Panisello Monjo, Tesa; Call Prat, Marcel (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 17, 2020-08)Poultry meat is the world’s primary source of animal protein due to low cost and is widelyeaten at a global level. However, intensive production is required to supply the demand although itgenerates ... -
Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 3, 2020-01)Environmental noise can be defined as the accumulation of noise pollution caused by sounds generated by outdoor human activities, Road Traffic Noise (RTN) being the main source in urban and suburban ... -
An Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Environments
Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17, No.10, 2017-10)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high Road Traffic Noise (RTN) levels. Until now, noise measurements in ... -
An Approach to Frequency Selectivity in an Urban Environment by Means of Multi-Path Acoustic Channel Analysis
Bergadà Caramés, Pau; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Sensors. 2019. Vol. 19, No. 12, 2019-06)The improvement of quality of life in the framework of the smart city paradigm cannot be limited to a set of objective measures carried out over several critical parameters (e.g., noise or air pollution). ... -
An FPGA Scalable Software Defined Radio Platform Design for Educational and Research Purposes
Hervás García, Marcos; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Salvador Marín, Martí (Electronics. 2016, Vol.5 , No.2, 2016-06)In a digital modem design, the integration of the Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) and Digital to Analog Converters (DAC) with the core processor is usually a major issue for the designer. In this ... -
An FPGA-Based WASN for Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Endangered Species: A Case Study on the Birdsong Recognition of Botaurus stellaris
Hervás García, Marcos; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Salvador Marín, Martí (Sensors. 2017, Vol.17 , No. 6, 2017-06)Fast environmental variations due to climate change can cause mass decline or even extinctions of species, having a dramatic impact on the future of biodiversity. During the last decade, different ... -
BCNDataset: Description and Analysis of an Annotated Night Urban Leisure Sound Dataset
Vidaña Vila, Ester; Duboc, Leticia; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Polls Agell, Francesc; Vargas Barrantes, Harold (Sustainability, 2020, Vol. 12, No. 19, 2020-10)Acoustic pollution has been associated with adverse effects on the health and life expectancy of people, especially when noise exposure happens during the nighttime. With over half of the world population ... -
Construction of an Omnidirectional Parametric Loudspeaker consisting in a Spherical Distribution of Ultrasound Transducers
Arnela Coll, Marc; Guasch Fortuny, Oriol; Sánchez Martín, Patrícia; Camps Dausà, Joan; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Martínez Suquía, Carme (Sensors. 2018, Vol. 18, No. 12, 2018-12)Omnidirectional sound sources are needed to perform a large variety of tests in acoustics. Typically, they consist of conventional speaker drivers arranged in a dodecahedron. However, the directivity ... -
Design and Validation of Probes and Sensors for the Characterization of Magneto-Ionic Radio Wave Propagation on Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Paths
Witvliet, Ben A.; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; van Maanen, Erik; Laanstra, Geert Jan (Sensors. 2019. Vol. 19, No. 11, 2019-06)This article describes the design and validation of deployable low-power probes and sensors to investigate the influence of the ionosphere and the Earth’s magnetic field on radio wave propagation below ... -
Design of a Low-Cost Configurable Acoustic Sensor for the Rapid Development of Sound Recognition Applications
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hervás García, Marcos; Duboc, Leticia; Carbassa Dalmases, Jordi (Electronics, 2020, Vol. 9, No 7, 2020-07)Concerned about the noise pollution in urban environments, the European Commission (EC) has created an Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) requiring Member states to publish noise maps and ... -
Design of a Mobile Low-Cost Sensor Network Using Urban Buses for Real-Time Ubiquitous Noise Monitoring
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hernández Jayo, Unai; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Angulo Martínez, Ignacio (Sensors. 2016, Vol. 17 No.1, 2016-12)One of the main priorities of smart cities is improving the quality of life of their inhabitants. Traffic noise is one of the pollutant sources that causes a negative impact on the quality of life of ... -
Detection of Anomalous Noise Events for Real-Time Road-Traffic Noise Mapping: The Dynamap's project case study
Alías Pujol, Francesc; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Orga Vidal, Ferran; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi (Noise Mapping. 2018. Vol. 5, No.1, 2018-06)Environmental noise is increasing year after year, especially in urban and suburban areas. Besides annoyance, environmental noise also causes harmful health effects on people. The Environmental Noise ... -
Detection of Anomalous Noise Events on Low-Capacity Acoustic Nodes for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping within an Hybrid WASN
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Socoró Carrié, Joan Claudi; Orga Vidal, Ferran (Sensors. 2018, Vol.18, No.4, 2018-04)One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is the continuous exposure to high road traffic noise (RTN) levels. Nowadays, thanks to Wireless Acoustic ... -
Digital Transmission Techniques for a Long Haul HF Link: DS-SS vs. OFDM
Bergadà Caramés, Pau; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Pijoan Vidal, Joan Lluís; Salvador Marín, Martí; Regué, Joan Ramon; Badia Folguera, David; Graells Castellà, Simó (Radio Science. 2014, Vol.49, No.7 (Juliol), 2014-06)This paper presents two digital transmission techniques for long haul ionospheric links. Since2003 we have studied the HF link between the Antarctic Spanish Base, Juan Carlos I, and Spain; and wehave ... -
Home Sound: a GPU-based Platform for Massive Data Acquisition and Processing for Acoustic Ambient Assisted Living Applications for Behavior Monitoring
Navarro Martín, Joan; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Hervás García, Marcos (Sensors & Transducers Journal. 2017. Vol.212, No.5 (Maig), 2017-05)Human life expectancy has grown over the last century, which has driven governments to increase the efforts on caring about the eldest population. Therefore, modern trends take advantage of latest ... -
homeSound: Real-Time Audio Event Detection Based on High Performance Computing for Behaviour and Surveillance Remote Monitoring
Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria; Navarro Martín, Joan; Alías Pujol, Francesc; Hervás García, Marcos (Sensors. 2017, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2017-04)The consistent growth in human life expectancy during the recent years has driven governments and private organizations to increase the efforts in caring for the eldest segment of the population. These ... -
Ionospheric Narrowband and Wideband HF Soundings for Communications Purposes: A Review
Hervás García, Marcos; Bergadà Caramés, Pau; Alsina Pagès, Rosa Maria (Sensors, 2020, Vol. 20 No 9, 2020-04)High Frequency (HF) communications through ionospheric reflection is a widely usedtechnique specifically for maritime, aeronautical, and emergency services communication withremote areas due ... -
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 ...