Systems for Aerial Imaging of Avifauna and Marine Mammals

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DAISI
Digital Aerial Imagery
System by IfAÖ
DAVIS
Digital Aerial Video
Imaging System
Systems for Aerial Imaging of
Avifauna and Marine Mammals

DAISI
Digital Aerial Imagery System by IfAÖ
DAISI
Flight altitude
700 m / 2300 ft
Number of cameras 2
Effective strip width
590 m
Transect width
610 m
Flight speed
120 kn
Image overlap up to 80 %
Frames per second (fps) up to 2
Ground resolution
better than 2 cm

DAVIS
Digital Aerial Video Imaging System
DAVIS
Flight altitude
550 m / 1800 ft
Number of cameras 4
Effective strip width
580 m
Transect width
830 m
Flight speed
120 kn
Image overlap 87 %
Frames per second (fps) up to 7
Ground resolution
2 cm

Systems for Aerial Imaging of
Avifauna and Marine Mammals
DAISI
DAVIS
Customized survey planning
When it comes to planning your surveys, all regulatory
and specific survey frameworks are considered. Our
experts also take into account natural gradients and
factors such as bathymetry, food availability, the distribution
ranges of specific species, protected areas, etc.,
which allows for a scientifically reliable evaluation of
the data and legally secure results.
Bounding Box Prediction
Input Images
High precision georeferencing
DAISI is used to locate birds and marine mammals with
very high precision. High precision georeferencing
allows species abundances to be studied in the context
of natural gradients and distances to anthropogenic
objects such as wind turbines.
DAVIS allows for fast species mapping with sufficiently
precise georeferencing especially with respect to disturbance
distances of wind turbines.
Feature Extraction
High Level
Interpretation
Region
Proposals
Image aquisition
Our Aerial Imaging Systems operate at 700 m (DAISI) or
550 m (DAVIS) altitude. This enables safe image aquisition
especially over offshore wind farms and above the
individual disturbance thresholds of seabird species.
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Output
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Screening and image identification
Reporting / Data storage
IfAÖ‘s proprietary and self-developed software systems,
which are enhanced by AI-based methods (see figure),
enable rapid and accurate screening. Our experienced
team of image analysts and ornithologists knows exactly
which species are likely to occur in specific offshore
areas of the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
In addition, the DAISI system allows for the determination
of absolute body lengths of objects. This allows for
distinguishing even between very similar species based
on their size (e. g. sea ducks, auks, gulls and divers or
between species of marine mammals).
Our highly experienced ecologists and ornithologists
present the acquired data in comprehensive analyses and
reports, which serve as a basis for legally secure expert
opinions and EIA studies.
The secure permanent storage of all image data in one of
our redundant data centers ensures that authorities and
clients have access to the data for verification purposes at
any time.
Contact:
Institute for Applied Ecosystem Research (IfAÖ)
Carl-Hopp-Str. 4a, 18069 Rostock, Germany, Tel.: +49 381 252312-0, Email: info@ifaoe.de