Radar-based monitoring system for nocturnal assessment

Author

Mirzaei, Golrokh ; Jamali, Mohsin ; Ross, Jeremy D. ; Gorsevski, Peter V. ; Frizado, Joseph P. ; Bingman, Verner P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

5-7 June 2014

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

255

Abstract

A radar monitoring system is implemented to evaluate the birds activity and their quantification in the western basin of lake Erie in Ohio. This location is a habitat stopover for migratory birds and also it is a putative area for constructing wind farm. The radar monitoring is performed in three steps consist of data acquisition, blip detections, and target tracking. Blip detection is performed in radR platform and tracking is performed using developed particle filter in MATLAB. The radar monitoring system is used to process data collected in migration period of fall and spring 2011.

Keywords

airborne radar; biological techniques; biology computing; data acquisition; mathematics computing; radar detection; radar tracking; target tracking; zoology; MATLAB; birds activity; blip detections; data acquisition; data collection; migratory bird stopover; nocturnal assessment; particle filter; radR platform; radR tracking; radar-based monitoring system; target tracking; wind farm; Monitoring; Particle filters; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radar tracking; Target tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Milwaukee, WI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIT.2014.6871771

Filename

6871771