Design and development of a synthetic acoustic antenna for highly directional sound measurements

Design and development of an acoustic microphone array for sound measurements outdoors, with applications in industrial noise and traffic noise. The microphone array has a flexible length of 10 to 76 m and covers the octave band from 125 to 1000 Hz (later extended to 2000 Hz). The angular resolution is 1.5 degrees.

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