NOISE REDUCTION IN SHOOTING-RANGES BY USING SOLAR PANELS

The search for available areas for photovoltaic systems doesn't stop for shooting facilities. The advantage of them are large areas (about 10000 m 2 for each C- type shooting-range), an excluded public, excellent approach roads for maintenance services and minimized trouble with surveyors' offices. As a secondary effect, this structural change decreases the shooting noise in the neighbourhood. The paper presents some ray tracing studies for different arrangements of the photovoltaic system and gives an estimation for the overall benefit of the reflected and/or diffracted shooting noise caused by solar panels.