Recursive Bayesian estimation of the acoustic noise emitted by wind farms

Wind turbine noise is often annoying for humans living in close proximity to a wind farm. Reliably estimating the intensity of wind turbine noise is a necessary step towards quantifying and reducing annoyance, but it is challenging because of the overlap with background noise sources. Current approaches involve measurements with on/off turbine cycles and acoustic simulations, which are expensive and unreliable. This raises the problem of separating the noise of wind turbines from that of background noise sources and coping with the uncertainties associated with the source separation output. In this paper we propose to assist a black-box source separation system with a model of wind turbine noise emission and propagation in a recursive Bayesian estimation framework. We validate our approach on real data with simulated uncertainties using different nonlinear Kalman filters.