Radar A Useful Remote Tool in Biodiversity Research, Habitat Quality Assessment, Pest Control and Pollution Surveillance

Ommo Hüppop
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Ommo Hüppop: Institute of Avian Research Vogelwarte Helgoland, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

JOJ Wildlife & Biodiversity, 2019, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-2

Abstract: Ecologists, conservationists and institutions working on pest controls or on monitoring and persecuting environmental pollutions but also hydrologists, geologists, oceanographers and others use a broad variety of modern remote sensing techniques for their daily work, including various radar applications [1-3]. Radar is an acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging which essentially means the transmission of electromagnetic waves and the reception of their echoes to retrieve information about the target [4-6]. From the 1920s on, radar was initially developed as a tool for military purposes to detect aircraft and ships. Later, it became obvious that radar can also be usefully applied to non-military objectives such as meteorological observations and weather forecasts [5] as well as aerial movements of birds, bats and insects [4,6,7]. An amazing variety of radars was applied in aeroecology [6-8], biological conservation [9] but also in insect pest control [6,10] and other areas. Namely, with the continent-wide availability of weather radar data [8,11], a real renaissance of radar in aeroecology started in the last decade.

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Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.19080/JOJWB.2019.02.555576

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