Advanced Environmental Sensing towards Acoustic Monitoring and Modeling: Applications and Challenges
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2025 | Viewed by 43
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental acoustics; noise mapping and action planning; people exposure to noise and annoyance; road traffic noise
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently, we have seen a growing interest in advanced environmental sensing for acoustic monitoring. Acoustic monitoring with innovative methods and sensors is challenging but offers a large variety of applications and new approaches in several fields of acoustics, from eco and bio acoustic to environmental noise pollution monitoring. Advances in AI and ML methods have enhanced the use of sensors towards the optimization of costs and computational efforts. To this aim, the edge–cloud continuum is still a challenge with few experiences in the field of acoustics.
This Special Issue therefore aims to put together original research and review articles on recent advances, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of environmental sensors for acoustic monitoring.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Acoustic sensors for bioacoustics;
- Acoustic sensors for and ecoacoustics;
- Acoustic sensors for noise pollution;
- Sensor network and event detection;
- Sensor network and event classification;
- AI and ML methods in acoustic sensor network;
- Low-cost sensors and citizen science approach;
- Cloud–edge computing for environmental monitoring.
Dr. Elena Ascari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental sensing
- acoustic monitoring
- bioacoustics
- ecoacoustics
- noise pollution monitoring
- acoustic sensors
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