Combining sensors and communities to monitor bird movements

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Combining sensors and communities to monitor bird
movements
Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Willem Bouten and Emiel van
Loon Computational GeoEcology, Universiteit van
Amsterdam Distributed Sensing and Collective
Intelligence in Biodiversity Monitoring, Dec.
2008
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Acknowledgments

• FlySafe team
• especially Jamie McLaren, Michael Kemp, Hans van
  Gasteren, Adriaan Doktor
• Edwin Baaij, UvA
• Kees Camphuysen, NIOZ
• Katrin Fleischer, Natalia Gallego Garcia, UvA -
  CGE

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Influence of meteorological factors on bird
movement at different scales
Space Hundreds of kilometers Tens of
kilometers Kilometers Meters
Mesoscale
Time Weeks/days Daily Hours Minutes Seconds
Microscale
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FlySafe The Bird Migration System of
SystemsIntegrated Applications Promotion
Initiative
Estimated damage to commercial aircraft worldwide
1.2 Billion USD annually
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FlySafe Sensors
Long Range Military Radar 150 km radius,
migration Weather radars 25 km radius, altitude
distribution migration Short Range Specialized
Radars 5 km, local bird behaviour Individual
birds Tracking, species specific behaviour Earth
observation data Meteorological data
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FlySafe Sensors Tracking birds from space
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UvA GPS bird tracking system measuring local
bird movements at high resolution
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FlySafe Sensors MPR Robin4NL (2), BE (1), FR
(1)
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FlySafe Sensors MPR Robin4
November 6, 2008 1820
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FlySafe Sensors MPR Robin4
November 6, 2008 1820 land clutter filter,
precipitation filter, bird tracks, wind speed and
direction
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FlySafe Sensors Weather radar

• Calibration with bird detection radar at 3
  locations
• NL BE C-Doppler, FR - Dual polarization

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FlySafe Sensors Weather radar
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FlySafe System of Systems
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Local Forecast Migration Model

• Military surveillance radar data
• ECMWF Medium range forecast model data
• Generic workflow
• Improved data correction procedures
• General additive models
• Hourly predictions for autumn spring migration

https//www.bambas.ecogrid.nl/
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Migration Flight Altitude Model

• Dedicated bird detection radar weather radar
  data (OPERA)
• ECMWF Medium range forecast model data
• General additive models
• Hourly predictions of altitude density
  distribution

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Modelling bird movement Spatial Explicit
Simulation Models

• IBM
• Generic framework
• Meteorology, topography, land use
• Passerine migration model
• Soaring bird migration model
• Create realistic simulations
• Integrate with measurements

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Modelling bird movement Spatial Explicit
Simulation Models
1 km
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Studying behaviour using tracking data

• Core areas and habitat preference
• Migration routes and stopover areas
• Individual variability

Natalia Gallego Garcia
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Studying behaviour using tracking data

• Where, how, why, what,
• Detailed daily patterns
• Interaction with environment
• Foraging behaviour ecology

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A day in the life of gull 52 ? FAJK

• June 6, 2008 615 June 7, 2008 615
• 625 leaves nest, goes to North Sea
• 750 925 hangs out on beach
• 925-1107 follows fishing vessel
• 1107 1153 flies back to Texel 20-40 km/hr
  (not nest)
• 1153-1304 mudflats beach
• 1304 2115 nest
• 120 flies south over North Sea 30-50 km/hr then
  turns east over land
• 230 524 rural areas/agricultural fields
• Flies back to Texel over North Sea 30-50 km/hr,
  back at 610

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Connecting communities combining technologies

• Enhanced tracking technology
• Information management services
• Visualization modelling tools
• Integrate different systems
• A platform for interdisciplinary collaboration
• Linking facilitating existing services or
  networks e.g. MoveBank www.movebank.org,
  LifeWatch www.lifewatch.eu

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• shamoun_at_uva.nl