Posters
Come meet the poster presenters to ask them questions and discuss their work
We would like to invite you to come and see the posters at our upcoming conference. The posters will showcase a diverse range of research topics, and will give delegates an opportunity to engage with the authors and learn more about their work. Whether you are a seasoned researcher or simply curious about the latest developments in your field, we believe that the posters will offer something of interest to everyone. So please join us at the conference and take advantage of this opportunity to learn and engage with your peers in industry and the academic community.
On 9 April at 17:15, we’ll also hold the main poster session and distinguish the 7 best posters of this year’s edition with our traditional Poster Awards Ceremony. Join us at the poster area to cheer and meet the laureates, and enjoy some drinks with all poster presenters!
We look forward to seeing you there!
PO049: Continuous bird monitoring with Spoor's camera- and AI-based system at marine energy test centre, Norway
Jonas Håkansson, Computational biologist, Spoor
Abstract
The need and subsequent ambition level of European countries regarding offshore wind represents an industrial development without precedence in the marine space. More consistent and higher wind speeds which give higher production, coupled with less competition for marine space with other users such as fisheries, make floating offshore wind in deeper waters attractive. Thus, there is a need to understand how these new floating technologies will affect the environment, especially seabirds which face increasing challenges and population reductions due to anthropogenic pressures. Monitoring these effects presents a series of challenges due to remote location, adverse weather conditions, associated costs and lack of physical evidence for bird strikes. Therefore, technological solutions are required in order to adequately measure interactions of seabirds with offshore wind turbines. In this study we present data from 2 years of monitoring using camera-based systems from Spoor, at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METC) located off the western coast of Norway. The system provided 588 days and 5487 hours of video during two operation periods with 21138 bird detections in total. Of these detections 2630 were randomly selected for manual evaluation for bird strikes, without a single strike being recorded. These results represent one of the first continuous bird monitoring studies carried out for floating offshore wind, and provide confidence both to the usefulness of the technology, and to a low impact on the studied bird species.
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