Agglomeration Airport Lday: Aircraft Noise Levels for Belfast Urban Area

A dataset from OpenDataNI, last updated on 2026-03-18, containing aircraft noise measurements for the Belfast Agglomeration area, which includes Belfast and surrounding urban centers. It likely contains noise level indicators such as Lden, Lnight, Lday, Levening, and LAeq,16hr, sourced from the George Best Belfast City Airport. The data is provided in multiple formats including JSON, KML, CSV, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Use Cases

• Modeling community noise exposure based on Lden, Lnight, and Lday indicators.
• Assessing the spatial impact of airport noise on the Belfast Agglomeration using geospatial formats.
• Analyzing diurnal noise patterns using separate day, evening, and night measurements.
• Evaluating compliance with noise regulations for the George Best Belfast City Airport.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple, interoperable formats including geospatial (KML, SHP, GEOJSON) and tabular (CSV, JSON).
• Noise is measured using standard European Union indicators (Lden, Lnight).
• Geographic scope is clearly defined as the Belfast Agglomeration, an urban area with a population exceeding 100,000 and a density of at least 500 people per km2.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:24:25.072588; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Belfast Agglomeration, Northern Ireland, including Belfast, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Lisburn, Holywood, Dundonald, Bangor, and Carryduff.