Bird radar study in the Belgian part of the North Sea: developments to improve bird detection

Dedicated bird radars have been used in ornithological studies for many years. This techniques has the advantage that it provides continuous data on a large scale. However, there are also several restrictions to this technique: the recorded radar data have a low taxonomic resolution and radars also records objects other than birds (e.g. sea surface, ships, rain). All unwanted detections are being referred to as clutter. The goal of this study is to develop a reliable filter, based on the differences in target characteristics as recorded by the radar, to post-process the vertical radar data whi... Mehr ...