ISO 17208-1:2016规定了在规定操作条件下测量船舶水下声音所用的一般测量系统、程序和方法。它没有具体规定或提供水下噪声标准的指导，也没有解决噪声对海洋生物的潜在影响。 产生的量基于均方根声压级（SPL），此处与在船舶远场测量的声压级或SPL同义，并标准化至1 m的距离，并以三分之一倍频带报告（见4.3）。在ISO 17208的本部分中，这些测量的结果称为“辐射噪声级”。在几何远场中进行水下声压级测量，然后将其调整至1m标准化距离，以便与适当的水下噪声标准进行比较。 ISO 17208-1:2016适用于任何和所有有人或无人驾驶的水上航行船舶。不适用于水下船舶或飞机。该方法对最小或最大船舶尺寸没有固有限制。它仅限于以不超过50千牛（25.7米/秒）的速度通过的船舶。 该测量方法平滑了劳埃德镜面图像相干效应引起的可变性，但不排除传播效应（如底部反射、折射和吸收）的可能影响。ISO 17208的本部分未提供这些影响的具体计算调整。使用ISO 17208的本部分不需要特定的海洋位置，但提供了海洋试验场地的要求。 ISO 17208本部分所述方法的预期用途是:证明符合合同要求或标准，用于将一艘船与另一艘船进行比较，实现定期签名评估，以及用于研究和开发。 预期用户包括政府机构、研究船运营商和商业船东。 需要进行额外的后处理，以使用从该测量方法获得的数据来确定船舶源水平，从而进行远场噪声预测，如大多数环境影响研究或创建水下噪声等高线图所需的远场噪声预测。

ISO 17208-1:2016 specifies the general measurement system, procedure, and methodology used for the measurement of underwater sound from ships under a prescribed operating condition. It does not specify or provide guidance on underwater noise criteria or address the potential effects of noise on marine organisms. The resulting quantities are based on the root-mean-square sound pressure levels (SPL), herein used synonymously with sound pressure level or SPL measured in the far field of the ship and normalized to a distance of 1 m and reported in one-third octave bands (see 4.3). In this part of ISO 17208, the result of these measurements is called "radiated noise level". The underwater sound pressure level measurement is performed in the geometric far field and then adjusted to the 1 m normalized distance for use in comparison with appropriate underwater noise criteria. ISO 17208-1:2016 is applicable to any and all underway surface vessels, either manned or unmanned. It is not applicable to submerged vessels or to aircraft. The method has no inherent limitation on minimum or maximum ship size. It is limited to ships transiting at speeds no greater than 50 kn (25,7 m/s). The measurement method smooths the variability caused by Lloyd's mirror surface image coherence effects, but does not exclude a possible influence of propagation effects like bottom reflections, refraction and absorption. No specific computational adjustments for these effects are provided in this part of ISO 17208. A specific ocean location is not required to use this part of ISO 17208, but the requirements for an ocean test site are provided. The intended uses of the method described in this part of ISO 17208 are: to show compliance with contract requirements or criteria, for comparison of one ship to another ship, to enable periodic signature assessments, and for research and development. The intended users include government agencies, research vessel operators, and commercial ship owners. Additional post-processing would be required to use the data obtained from this measurement method for determination of the ship source levels to perform far field noise predictions such as needed for most environmental impact studies or for creating underwater noise contour maps.