Radar Techniques for Air Force Applications in Avoidance of Bird- Aircraft Collisions and Improvement of Flight Safety

Abstract

Evaluation of the influence of aircraft landing lights on flight behavior of migrating birds at night has been completed. Birds do not make evasive maneuvers to avoid approaching aircrafts with their landing lights on. Evaluation of the AN/TVS-5 image intensifier shows that it is an ideal instrument to use in quantifying and monitoring bird migrations. The correlation between migration traffic rate and the density of bird echoes on the radar screen is identical on different nights when the magnitude of migration is the same. An automatic system composed of an image intensifier in combination with a closed circuit television video tape system has been developed to gather more accurate data on nocturnal migration. Keywords: Bird strikes; Collision avoidance; Radar; Nocturnal bird migration; Animal migration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA209919

Entities

People

  • Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr.

Organizations

  • Clemson University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Landings
  • Aircrafts
  • Animal Distribution
  • Animals
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Bird Strikes
  • Birds
  • Closed Circuit Television
  • Collisions
  • Control Systems
  • Landing Lights
  • Navigation
  • Photographs
  • Security
  • South Carolina
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.