CONTROLLING DRONE NOISE BASED UPON HEIGHT

A computer-implemented system and related method manage noise from a drone. This method comprises generating a flight path for the drone from an origin to a destination and determining a path segment ground noise level for each segment that makes up the flight path within each ground level noise zone (GLNZ). A minimum altitude is determined for each path segment that is based on the determined path segment ground noise level within each GLNZ. The drone height/altitude above ground is controlled to be at or above the determined minimum altitude as it traverses the path segments of the path within each GLNZ.