8–12 Sept 2026
Europe/Vienna timezone

Autonomous Aircraft Noise Recording: Developing Datasets for Machine Learning

FA2026/4
11 Sept 2026, 15:40
20m
Saal 10 (Messe Congress Graz)

Saal 10

Messe Congress Graz

A21 Transportation Noise and Vibration A21.06 Aircraft noise

Speaker

Gary Isherwood (University of Sussex)

Description

The advancement of deep learning in environmentalacoustics is hindered by a lack of high-fidelity, labelleddatasets. While aircraft noise is a major environmental concern, collecting annotated data at scaleremains a logistical hurdle; attended measurementslack volume and permanent monitors lack geographicdiversity. This paper presents an autonomous aircraft noise recording station that integrates a noisemonitoring terminal with a custom solar-power subsystem and ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) receiver. This architecture enablesautomatic alignment of acoustic events with flighttelemetry, including aircraft type, location and altitude in order to reduce manual annotation effort. Thispaper details a hardware architecture, energy budgetanalysis for year-round autonomy, and field protocolsfor data integrity. The resulting methodology enablesthe repeatable creation of ’AI-ready’ acoustic datasets.

Authors

Gary Isherwood (University of Sussex) Paul Newbury (University of Sussex)

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