Potential quiet areas in Europe, based upon Quietness Suitability Index (QSI) and Natura 2000 protected areas, Jul. 2016
Description
Within the European Union, the Environmental Noise Directive (END; 2002/49/EC) defines quiet areas outside cities as those areas delimited by national authorities that are undisturbed by noise from traffic, industry or recreational activities. In this dataset, two datasets has been brought together to visualize how human made noise have an impact on nature protected areas: the Natura2000 dataset and the quietness suitable index dataset.
The data set is provided by countries both in Geodatabase and Geopackage formats.