Mitigating noise exposure to unmanned aerial vehicles

At least one machine-accessible storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a machine, will cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• accessing a noise exposure map stored in a database, wherein the noise exposure map includes noise exposure values indexed to locations within a neighborhood, and wherein each of the noise exposure values quantifies a cumulative noise exposure of a corresponding one of the locations due at least in part to historical flight paths of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the neighborhood;
• and
• updating the noise exposure values of the noise exposure map to account for additional noise exposures that a given flight path causes when a first UAV of the UAVs flies the given flight path over the neighborhood.

A system comprising:

• a database storing a noise exposure map for a neighborhood, wherein the noise exposure map includes noise exposure values indexed to locations within the neighborhood, and wherein the noise exposure values quantify cumulative noise exposures of the locations due at least in part to historical flight paths of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the neighborhood;
• and
• a noise exposure updater coupled to the database to update the noise exposure values in response to new flight paths over the neighborhood.