https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611927002
Exploitation of Multi-Band Lidar for the Classification of Free-Flying Migratory Birds: A Pilot Study Over Athens, Greece
1 Lund Laser Centre, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
2 Laser Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece
3 Centre for Animal Movement Research, Lund University, Ecology Building, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
* Email: jansson.samuel@gmail.com
Published online: 7 June 2016
A multi-wavelength lidar system was used to detect free-flying birds passing over Athens, Greece. The location is strategically located in one of the important migratory corridors for birds migrating between Europe and Africa. Multiwavelength aerosol lidars are operated regularly across Europe in the frame of EARLINET. Here, the feasibility of using this existing infrastructure for assessing fluxes of migratory birds is explored. The backscattered lidar signals were detected at three elastic bands and one Raman band. The monitoring was extended over a period of three months covering predominantly the summer and early autumn period during which approximately 100 hours of lidar data was gathered.
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