Automatic identification of bird targets with radar via patterns produced by wing flapping

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 1041-1053

  Zaugg, Serge ^a   Saporta, Gilbert ^b   Van Loon, Emiel ^c   Schmaljohann, Heiko ^a,d   Liechti, Felix ^a  

^a SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Unité de Recherches Mesures Physiques Métrologie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird identification; Continuous wavelet transform; Feature extraction; Pattern recognition; Radar ornithology; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DETECTORS; EARTH SCIENCES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO; STATISTICAL TESTS; VECTORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND POWER; WINGS;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; BIRD MIGRATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM (CWT); CROSS-VALIDATION (CV); DATA SETS; DATA-SETS; FUTURE RESEARCH; GROUND CLUTTER; IMPACT ASSESSMENT (IA); PREDICTIVE MODELING; RADAR METEOROLOGY; RADAR SIGNALS; REAL TIME; SIGNAL INTENSITY (SI); SUPPORT VECTOR CLASSIFIER (SVC); TEST SETS; TRAINING AND TESTING; WIND FARMS; WING FLAPPING;

RADAR;

ARTICLE; BIRD; FLYING; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POPULATION MIGRATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 47649100970     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1349     Document Type: Article

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