IdentiFlight - Autonomous Aerial Monitoring and Detection System
IdentiFlight is an autonomous aerial monitoring and detection system with the critical mission of preventing eagle collisions with rotating wind turbines. High-precision optical technology utilized atop IdentiFlight’s tower design can detect and classify an eagle in seconds flying anywhere within a one kilometer (km) hemisphere around each tower. Proprietary software processes the images to determine 3D position, velocity, trajectory, and protected species of interest (able to discriminate among species of the similar size such as eagles and turkey vultures), all within less than five seconds of detection. By detecting a bird as far as one km out and classifying it as an eagle (or not) in real time, the IdentiFlight system arms wind farm operators with critical visual and quantitative data to eliminate eagle collisions with wind turbines.
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THE SOLUTION: INTELLIGENT MACHINE VISION TECHNOLOGY
IdentiFlight’s technology leadership is enabled by combining state-of-the-art image-sensor arrays (for hemispherical spatial detection), high-magnification stereoscopic sensors (for position, trajectory, and species identification), and high-performance artificial intelligence algorithms for fully autonomous realtime image processing. By empowering customers to make highly targeted, informed, and objective curtailment decisions, unnecessary and costly interruptions are also avoided.
EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE
Performance specifications for two or more deployed sensor towers are in the charts that follow, with all towers operating as one fully-networked, autonomous system with complete aerial coverage.
Specifications:
- DETECTION RANGE
- Ability to detect eagles anywhere within a 1km hemisphere from each IdentiFlight tower
- 2 cubic km of spatial coverage from each tower
- Detection response time <200 milliseconds
- Detects up to 1km out
- 360 degree viewing in extreme climatic conditions
- Algorithms to separate moving objects of interest from background noise
- SPECIES IDENTIFICATION
- Ability to identify specifically targeted, protected raptor species including Bald and
- Golden Eagles
- Ability to distinguish among species with same or similar wingspan (e.g.; eagles
- and turkey vultures)
- Achievable with high-magnification sensors generating bird images with resolutions of: 1cm per pixel at 1km away; 0.7cm per pixel at 600m away
- Flexibility to add new species characteristics
- POSITION AND TRAJECTORY DETERMINATION
- Position, velocity, predictive trajectory, collision course probability
- Stereoscopic sensors for 3D position measurements and redundant high-resolution
- images for species identification
- BIRD DETECTABILITY >99%
- TRACEABILITY AND ARCHIVING
- Provides high resolution imagery and recall of individual events
- Highest data rates in the industry
- Uncompressed forensic video for full traceability, analysis, and archiving
- MONITORING TIME
- Continuous operation during daylight hours
- Real-time identification and decision-making
- CURTAILMENT Alarms and output signals provided for immediate curtailment decisions in
- accordance with the customer’s specific prescription
- STRATEGIC COVERAGE REDUNDANCIES
- Redundant coverage located in area with elevated eagle activity
- Enhanced classification ability by providing multiple angles of target
- Allows for minimization of sun interference
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