Community noise abatement in dynamic environment

A system for flying an aerial vehicle, the system configured to perform a set of acts comprising:

• obtaining an initial location of the aerial vehicle;
• obtaining a target location for the aerial vehicle;
• determining a proposed trajectory for the aerial vehicle using the initial location and the target location;
• determining a perceived noise at a surface location based on acoustic noise emitted by the aerial vehicle at an aerial location along the proposed trajectory;
• determining a noise-abatement value of the proposed trajectory based at least on the perceived noise at the surface location and a flight time;
• determining that the noise-abatement value satisfies a threshold condition;
• and
• based on the determining that the noise-abatement value satisfies a threshold condition, causing the aerial vehicle to fly along the proposed trajectory.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause a system to perform a set of acts comprising:

• obtaining an initial location of an aerial vehicle;
• obtaining a target location for the aerial vehicle;
• determining a proposed trajectory for the aerial vehicle using the initial location and the target location;
• determining a perceived noise at a surface location based on acoustic noise emitted by the aerial vehicle at an aerial location along the proposed trajectory;
• determining a noise-abatement value of the proposed trajectory based at least on the perceived noise at the surface location and a flight time;
• determining that the noise-abatement value satisfies a threshold condition;
• and
• based on the determining that the noise-abatement value satisfies a threshold condition, causing the aerial vehicle to fly along the proposed trajectory.