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Migration Traffic Rate Calculation Package for 'Birdscan MR1' Radars

Birgen Haest, Fabian Hertner

Last update: 6 October 2023

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier: 0.1.2, 0.2.0

Description

Extract data from 'Birdscan MR1' 'SQL' vertical-looking radar databases, filter, and process them to Migration Traffic Rates (#objects per hour and km) of, for example birds, and insects. Object classifications in the 'Birdscan MR1' databases are based on the dataset of Haest et al. (2021) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.5734960>). Migration Traffic Rates can be calculated separately for different height bins (with a height resolution of choice) as well as over time periods of choice (e.g., 1/2 hour, 1 hour, 1 day, day/night, the full time period of observation, and anything in between). Two plotting functions are also included to explore the data in the 'SQL' databases and the resulting Migration Traffic Rate results. For details on the Migration Traffic Rate calculation procedures, see Schmid et al. (2019) <doi:10.1111/ecog.04025>.

Cites work

• Size matters in quantitative radar monitoring of animal migration: estimating monitored volume from wingbeat frequency
• BirdScan Community Reference Dataset

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