A Geostatistical Approach to Estimate High Resolution Nocturnal Bird Migration Densities from a Weather Radar Network
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Etat: Public
Version: Final published version
Licence: CC BY 4.0
ID Serval
serval:BIB_FC83CC4763E6
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
A Geostatistical Approach to Estimate High Resolution Nocturnal Bird Migration Densities from a Weather Radar Network
Périodique
Remote Sensing
ISSN
2072-4292
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
25/09/2019
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
11
Numéro
19
Pages
2233
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Quantifying nocturnal bird migration at high resolution is essential for (1) understanding the phenology of migration and its drivers, (2) identifying critical spatio-temporal protection zones for migratory birds, and (3) assessing the risk of collision with artificial structures. We propose a tailored geostatistical model to interpolate migration intensity monitored by a network of weather radars. The model is applied to data collected in autumn 2016 from 69 European weather radars. To validate the model, we performed a cross-validation and also compared our interpolation results with independent measurements of two bird radars. Our model estimated bird densities at high resolution (0.2° latitude–longitude, 15 min) and assessed the associated uncertainty. Within the area covered by the radar network, we estimated that around 120 million birds were simultaneously in flight (10–90 quantiles: 107–134). Local estimations can be easily visualized and retrieved from a dedicated interactive website. This proof-of-concept study demonstrates that a network of weather radar is able to quantify bird migration at high resolution and accuracy. The model presented has the ability to monitor population of migratory birds at scales ranging from regional to continental in space and daily to yearly in time. Near-real-time estimation should soon be possible with an update of the infrastructure and processing software.
Mots-clé
aeroecology, bird migration, geostatistical modeling, interactive visualization, kriging, radar network, spatio-temporal interpolation map, weather radar
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
Création de la notice
30/07/2019 11:00
Dernière modification de la notice
03/12/2022 6:48