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Environmental and wildlife monitoring
Radar-based bird and bat monitoring
Radar detection and tracking of bird and bat activity from DeTect, with the system around it built, installed and supported by WISE Group.
Radar scans a defined volume of airspace and tracks what moves through it — range, altitude and heading — day and night, through rain and fog. Where a consent condition asks what is flying through a site and where, radar is what covers the volume.
WISE Group works with DeTect, Inc., whose MERLIN radar was developed to track small biological targets. We supply and support everything that detection needs in order to keep working where it is installed.
What it produces
Radar produces tracks rather than pictures: where a target was, how high, how fast and on what heading. DeTect's platform processes that into collision-risk assessment and reporting, and combines it with camera and acoustic sensors where those are fitted.
Because radar does not depend on light, the record continues through darkness and through weather that stops optical detection.
What WISE Group supplies
The radar and the detection platform come from DeTect. What WISE Group brings is everything that has to work around it, offshore, for years.
- Siting and mounting. Where the radar goes, what it can see from there, and how it is mounted on the structure available.
- Power, enclosures and communications. Equipment built to survive an offshore substation or a turbine, with power and data paths that hold up through a winter.
- Installation and commissioning. Access, lifting, cabling and the documentation the site needs in order to accept the system.
- Service for the life of the consent. Spares, verification and support, so the record keeps being produced for as long as the condition runs.
Telemetry in Orbalux
Telemetry from the deployed systems is integrated into Orbalux — WISE Group's own platform — so the installation is monitored alongside the rest of the asset's monitoring. The detection platform stays with DeTect.
Where cameras fit
Radar covers a volume of airspace and tracks movement through it. Cameras identify what is in frame, and classify it to species where the platform can. The two answer different halves of the same question, and some consent conditions are best met by using both.
Working with DeTect
DeTect, Inc. pioneered radar capable of tracking small biological targets and continue to develop both the radar and the platform that interprets it. WISE Group bring the delivery around it: siting, power, enclosures, communications, installation and support.
About our partnership with DeTect →
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Talk to us about a site
Tell us the consent conditions you are working to, the asset the equipment has to sit on, and when the site needs to be monitoring. We will come back with what a system would contain and what we would need from the detection partner.