本标准规定了评估环境声音的方法，以及预测社区对由一个或多个不同或分布式声源产生的任何和所有类型的环境声音产生的长期噪声的烦扰反应的方法。声源可以是单独的，也可以是不同的组合。标准方法的应用仅限于人们居住的区域和相关的长期土地使用。本标准不涉及侵入性声音对公园和荒野等短期使用区域的人群的影响，也不涉及噪音的其他影响，如睡眠干扰或健康影响。本标准未提供预测社区对短期、不频繁、非重复声源反应的方法。

This Standard specifies methods to assess environmental sounds and to predict the annoyance response of communities to long-term noise from any and all types of environmental sounds produced by one or more distinct or distributed sound sources.  The sound sources may be separate or in various combinations.  Application of the method of the Standard is limited to areas where people reside and related long-term land uses.  This Standard does not address the effects of intrusive sound on people in areas of short-term use such as parks and wilderness areas, nor does it address other effects of noise such as sleep disturbance or health effects.  This Standard does not provide a method to predict the community response to short-term, infrequent, non-repetitive sources of sound.