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SONYC: a system for monitoring, analyzing, and mitigating urban noise pollution

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SONYC integrates sensors, machine listening, data analytics, and citizen science to address noise pollution in New York City.

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                Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 2
                February 2019
                112 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/3310134
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