Flight Tracker
Quantitative bat and bird flight tracking for wind-energy projects. Outputs support bird-and-bat management plans, EPBC referrals, and related regulatory frameworks.
We reconstruct 3D flight tracks from stereo thermal video, wildlife radar, LiDAR, and altitude-capable GPS. The result is a clearer view of where birds and bats fly, when collision risk is highest, and how mitigation such as deterrents or curtailment should be tested.
Technology it uses
- Stereo Thermal Cameras Two thermal sensors with calibrated relative geometry, used to
- Stereo Colour Cameras Calibrated stereo colour camera pairs for high-resolution visual
- Wildlife Radar X-band micro-Doppler wildlife radar for continuous aerial biomass
- LiDAR Time-of-flight 3D point-cloud sensors used for two distinct purposes:
- GPS Tracking Sub-gram and altitude-capable GPS tags for individual-animal movement
- Helikite Tethered helium kite carrying ultrasonic recording equipment to ~100 m
- Field Platform The physical and electronic base that lets every monitoring system
- Visual Tracking Algorithms for associating detections over time into trajectories —
- Bulk ML Inference High-throughput cloud GPU pipelines for processing archived
- Dashboards & Review Tools Client dashboards provide access, replay, and report downloads.
Questions this system helps answer
- Presence and Absence Is the target species present at this site, and when?
- Abundance and Colony Size How many animals use this site, cave, corridor, or roost?
- Movement and Connectivity How do individuals move between roosts, caves, or across landscapes?
- Flight Height and Collision Risk At what heights, times, and conditions do animals fly through wind energy infrastructure?
- Roost Discovery and Use Where are roosts, which are active, and how is roost use changing?
- Disturbance and Displacement How do animals respond to construction, mining, exclusion events, or novel structures?
- Breeding and Seasonality When do animals breed, and how does site use vary through the year?
- Noise, Vibration, and Compliance Are noise and vibration levels within regulatory thresholds at sensitive receivers?
Projects that have used this
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