2004 Noise Contour Technical Report
The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority (RDUAA) requested that Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc. (HMMH) prepare annual Day/Night Average Sound Level aircraft noise contours for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) for calendar year 2004. HMMH previously prepared contours for the years 1987/88, and 1990 through 2003.
HMMH has refined the contour preparation process each year by utilizing the latest available technologies. Beginning with a small sample of flight tracks traced from the ARTS radar at the control tower, the process of flight track modeling has evolved as described in Section 2 of this report. The remainder of this section of the report describes the contour preparation process in detail.
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