Wind Energy Bird Monitoring & Mitigation Systems (BMMS)

DeTect specializes in delivery, integration and support of advanced, proven bird monitoring and mitigation systems (BMMS) for wind energy project developers, owners, operators and environmental consultants for bird and bat survey, mortality risk assessment, operational monitoring and real-time risk mitigation with over 800 systems delivered worldwide.
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DeTect’s advanced bird and bat detection radar systems and related services in support of wind energy include:

  • NEXRAD radar data pre-screening site assessment

  • Bird & bat radar systems terrestrial & offshore

  • Bat detection & tracking radars

  • Avian radar data processing, analysis & reporting

  • Bird & bat mortality risk assessment

  • Radar-based mortality risk mitigation systems

Bird & Bat Radar Technologies

DeTect is the developer and manufacturer of the MERLIN Avian Radar System, the most advanced and proven bird & bat monitoring system available for windfarm project avian survey, risk assessment, monitoring and real-time risk mitigation with over 1,200 systems delivered worldwide. The MERLIN technology was originally developed for the US Air Force and NASA as a precision bird detection radar system to provide real-time information to controllers, pilots and managers to reduce bird-aircraft strike risk.

MERLIN™ technology is capable of collecting high quality data on bird activity at ranges of 3-8 miles around proposed wind farm sites. These data can be used to develop detailed pre-construction mortality risk projections and for operational mitigation.

With the MERLIN SCADA bird and bat mortality risk mitigation feature, the MERLIN system can be used at operating wind farms to function as an “early warning” system providing advance detection of bird & bat activity that presents mortality risk, automatically engaging response mitigation actions up to and including idling of turbines until the risk passes.

DeTect provides full operational and technical support to wind farm owners, developers, operators and consultants that includes system deployment, operation, user training, and data processing, analysis, reporting and QA/QC.

Staff specialists include highly knowledgeable radar ornithologists, avian biologists, engineers and statisticians that comprises the top team of experts in remote sensing of birds and bats in the world – with specific expertise in design, construction and operation of bird/wildlife detection systems for real-time aviation safety and environmental management.

Ask the Expert – PES Wind interviews Senior Biologist, Jenny Davenport from DeTect, Inc

Avian Monitoring on the Radar – Originally developed for the US Air Force and NASA as a precision bird detection radar system, DeTect’s Avian Radar technology can provide continuous monitoring of bird and bat activity at ranges of three to eight miles around wind farm sites. The company’s Senior Biologist, Jenny Davenport, explains more to PES.

SEABIRD: System for Environmental Assessment of Bird/Bat Interactions with Real-time Detection

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