Analyses and reporting

BirdScan radar systems can reliably detect even small passerines and small bats. Thousand of echos per day can be recorded, each echo with relevant information attached: e.g. height, timestamp, radar-cross-section, and also complete signals with wing-flapping pattern....

Measuring bird migration

Quantification of flight activity in absolute terms A standard unit for quantifying the flight activity of birds is the Migration Traffic Rate (MTR). It describes the number of birds crossing a line of 1km vertical to the direction of flight in the course of one hour...

Echo classification

Poster_BirdScanMR1BirdScan radar systems are based on X-band radar and can detect even small targets such as small passerines, small bats or even insects. A BirdScan radar can easily record hundreds of thousands echos per month and this obviously calls for the...

Reference data repository

From BirdScan systems for BirdScan systems Data and echos from several campaigns performed with BirdScan systems are stored in our data repository. This data collection is used for our ongoing technology research and development of our analytics modules. Several...

Machine learning

Machine Learning (ML) is about teaching computers to learn from data and make predictions on new data. It is used nowadays to solve a multitude of real-world problems. Random Forests and Support Vector Machines are two state-of-the-art ML methods that achieve top...

Extraction of flapping patterns

BirdScan radar systems emit hundreds of pulses per second. A flying target is illuminated several hundred times. The resulting echo is a short signal which contains information of fluctuations in a target’s reflectivity. For birds and bats the wing-flapping...