IdentiFlight

What is IdentiFlight?

IdentiFlight (IDF) is an American camera system for preventing bird fatalities through collisions with wind turbines and is therefore a so-called anti-collision system (AKS for short)..

The system consists of optical camera systems combined with image processing and AI (artificial intelligence) software. The IDF system can detect a bird at a distance of up to one kilometer and is capable of identifying birds in real time. IDF aims to provide an early and needs-adapted curtailment of windturbines for the protection of endangered birds.

The IDF system is already in use in North America and Australia. In Germany the IDF system is currently undergoing validation. The performance of the IDF system with regard to the protection of endangered target species (e.g. red kite, white-tailed eagle and lesser spotted eagle) is being evaluated in detail.

What does OekoFor do?

The team at Oekofor, together with the team from ARSU GmbH are supervising this validation process in Germany.

IDF systems have been installed at various German test sites and data are being collected. Parallel to surveys from the IDF system, ornithologists are also on site collecting reference data. These data are compared, as one of many steps in the validation process, to assess the performance of the IDF system.

Our tasks is to prepare, analyze and visualize the data collected and compile the results in the form of a report.

Further links

More information about IdentiFlight:

• https://www.e3-identiflight.de/ ↗

News

• April 2024:

  The IDF system is being trained on further target species. The focus is on the imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca) and the black stork (Ciconia nigra).

• Mai 2023:

  A valuation report has now also been published for the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla).
  The final report can be accessed via the following link (only available in German language):
  IdentiFlight als Schutzmaßnahme für den Seeadler (Haliaeetus albicilla) ↗

• October 2021:

  The validation process for the red kite has been completed. The final report can be found at the following link (only available in German language):
  Wie gut schützt IdentiFlight den Rotmilan (Milvus milvus)? ↗

Client & Partner

erneuerbare energien europa (e3) GmbH is the contracting authority for this project. Our partner for the validation process is ARSU GmbH.