Noise pollution and greenness index mutual influence
(Jullien Nicolas, Locatelli Maxence, Tahiri Reda)
In the common sens green spaces have a positive influence on the inhabitants health and perception of their environment. Studies have proved that a traffic-noise pollution related have enormous consequences on psychological states of urban residents. According to a study conducted \cite{Margaritis_2017} on European cities, noise-traffic can be lowered thanks to the porosity of the green spaces. In addition, based on the effects of traffic-noise pollution, research driven in Iran \cite{Sakieh_2017} came to the conclusion that traffic-noise pollution have a significant influence on residents well-being and potential effect on the health.
However a spatial analysis based on the effects of traffic-noise on health can be important to understand the concepts and the warning situation that the authorities can take in account. Therefore, it might be interesting to question the statistics about the mutual influence of traffic-noise pollution and greenness index.
Data
Various kind of data were used to carry out the study :
- 4 RVB images describing green spaces in the region of Vernier. They are orthophotos from 2014 provided by Swisstopo (https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/) with a spatial resolution of 0.5m.
- One vector file containing borders of Vernier's region
- One raster file highlighting variation of noise pollution through Vernier's region during day time. Another similar file has been used for data during the night. Those files incorporate SonBase data set with data collected by Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) as well as several other offices such as Federal Offices for Spatial Development (ARE) or Roads (FEDRO).