Affordable avian radar surveillance systems for natural resource management and BASH applications

Author

Nohara, Tim J. ; Weber, Peter ; Premji, A. ; Krasnor, Carl ; Gauthreaux, Sid ; Brand, Marissa ; Key, Gerry

Author_Institution

Sicom Syst. Ltd., Fonthill, Ont., Canada

fYear

2005

fDate

9-12 May 2005

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

15

Abstract

Affordable avian surveillance radar systems have been developed for natural resource management (NRM) and bird air strike hazard (BASH) applications. The system design described herein demonstrates that affordable, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) marine radars combined with COTS personal computers (PCs) and sophisticated radar processing software can meet system requirements. Real performance data obtained using the Navy´s eBirdRad radar unit installed at Patuxent River Naval Air Station demonstrate a significant advancement in state-of-the-art bird detection and tracking. This provides the impetus for maturing the technology into fully operational systems.

Keywords

military computing; military radar; natural resources; radar computing; surveillance; avian radar surveillance systems; bird air strike hazard; commercial off-the-shelf marine radars; natural resource management; radar processing software; state-of-the-art bird detection; state-of-the-art bird tracking; Application software; Birds; Hazards; Microcomputers; Personal communication networks; Radar applications; Radar tracking; Resource management; Software systems; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2005 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8881-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2005.1435785

Filename

1435785