Ideagen Noise Contour Modelling

Our noise contour modelling capability helps airports generate accurate, consistent noise contours to explain changes in community noise exposure as airport operations grow and evolve. Rather than starting each modelling exercise from scratch, the tool reuses the groomed data and setup from an airport’s existing noise and flight track monitoring system, removing the risk of inconsistent inputs and reducing the extensive data preparation that noise contour work traditionally demands. 

Airport and environment teams can extract and manipulate existing monitoring data to build historical and future scenarios, supporting planning for growth opportunities, airport expansion and airspace change proposals. Because every modelling exercise is built from a consistent starting scenario, based on real operational data, dispersed flight routes and existing mapping, airports and their aviation consultants can move faster from question to answer when stakeholders, regulators or communities ask how a change in operations will affect noise exposure.

Full visibility into how each contour scenario is built, and what data has fed into it, supports confident, transparent engagement with regulators, elected officials and local communities around proposed changes to airport operations. This reduces the pressure on stretched noise and environment office staff, who might otherwise face repeated, ad hoc modelling requests without a consistent, defensible methodology behind them.

Designed for airports operating under close regulatory and community scrutiny, this noise contour modelling capability complements real-time noise monitoring and flight track visualisation, giving airports one evidence-based story to tell about both current noise performance and the likely impact of future growth.

Envirosuite & Casper are now part of Ideagen Aviation, incorportating Cnoise, ANOMs, NoiseDesk, Flight Tracker, NoiseLab, Webtrak, OPAS and the other solutions under their aviation umbrella.