Key Benefits & Differentiators

EchoTrack Radar–Acoustic Surveillance System provides unique and powerful capabilities for monitoring airborne wildlife that the competition cannot provide.

Surveys all concurrent bird and bat flight paths, in a landscape 4 km across and a hemisphere 10 times the volume of commercial directional bat sensors.

Benefit

All the animals within the radar's hemisphere are captured, not just the animals that cross the beam.

Follows flight paths from ground level habitat to 1900 m above ground.

Benefit

Wildlife behaviour can be attributed to the landscape features.

Derives accurate mapping of individual flight paths in location and time, with height.

Benefit

Both landscape–level analysis, and options for mitigation at the individual wind turbine are achievable.

Maps individuals across the horizon.

Benefit

The sources and destinations of individuals are known, as are the regions of high risk flight behaviour.

Produces constraint maps of focal species with sufficient detail for setback and operational mitigation which other commercially–available systems, acoustic or radar, cannot provide.

Benefit

Species–specific mitigation strategies are provided that meet Endangered Species laws and Best Management Practice guidelines.

Provides constant, quantified sampling volume and automated data analysis.

Benefit

Automation controls for bias and enables BACI (before–after–controlled–impact) assessment.

Proven to increase the accuracy of observations beyond traditional visual methods of assessment of risk.

Benefit

The EA reporting to regulators is thorough and accurate in identifying risks requiring mitigation.

The EchoTrack system's custom hemispheric ultrafrequency sensors are capable of detecting bats to 100 m.

Benefit

Bats can be detected into wind turbine blade height without having to mount sensors on the towers.

EchoTrack stores all of the raw data.

Benefit

The data can be re–analysed using different parameters in the event that development plans change, and the need for additional field monitoring is eliminated.

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