DeTect specializes in delivery, integration and support of advanced, proven bird monitoring systems for wind energy project developers owners, operators and environmental consultants for bird and bat survey, mortality risk assessment operational monitoring and real-time risk mitigation with over 250 systems delivered worldwide.
DeTect’s advanced bird monitoring systems and related services in support of wind energy include:
NEXRAD radar data pre-screening site assessment
Bird & bat radar systems terrestrial & offshore
Bat detection & tracking radars
Avian radar data processing analysis & reporting
Bird & bat mortality risk assessment
Radar-based mortality risk mitigation systems
Bird & Bat Radar Technologies
DeTect is the developer and manufacturer of the MERLIN Avian Radar System, the most advanced and proven bird & bat monitoring system available for windfarm project avian survey, risk assessment, monitoring and real-time risk mitigation with over 250 systems delivered worldwide. The MERLIN technology was originally developed for the US Air Force and NASA as a precision bird detection radar system to provide real-time information to controllers,
The MERLIN technology is highly automated providing unattended 24-7 collection of high quality data on bird activity at ranges of 3-8 miles around proposed windfarm sites that can be used to develop detailed pre-construction mortality risk projections and for operational mitigation.
With the MERLIN SCADA bird and bat mortality risk mitigation feature, the MERLIN system can be used at operating wind farms to function as an “early warning” system providing advance detection of bird & bat activity that presents mortality risk,