An investigation of reverberation in an urban environment
Brad Libbey, James Perea · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2007
Localization of an acoustic blast source in urban battle spaces is frequently complicated by multiple arrivals resulting from reflections within the acoustic environment. Temporal windowing can be used to isolate the direct arrival in situations where a direct path between source and receiver exists. However, if the source is located around a corner from a receiver, the first arrival would lead to an erroneous source location estimate. These complications have prompted the authors to perform initial measurements of reverberation in a semi-urban environment. These measurements will assess the salience of reverberation as a means for estimating range to a blast source.