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Performance Evaluation of Bird Detection Radar in the Application of Airports

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Bird strikes pose a significant danger to the takeoff and landing of aircraft in airports. Detecting and monitoring the bird activities around the airports is critical for preventing bird strikes. Traditional bird control methods rely on manual observation of airport staff, and the result of bird detection will directly determine the effect of bird strike prevention. Bird detection radar has been introduced to airports to provide comprehensive information about the status of bird activities. However, the environment of airports is complicated, and many factors can influence the performance of bird detection radar. Bad weather, such as clouds, fog, and rain, also plays a vital role in bird detection. The radar must maintain the ability of bird detection in different conditions with good performance. In this paper, multiple radars were applied to bird detection in airports. Active radar, such as mechanical and phased array radar, is typical and performs better in the application of bird detection, but the electromagnetic environment of airports is complicated, and the deployment of active radar needs to estimate the influence on the electromagnetic environment. Compared with active radar, passive radar does not have transmission models and can ignore the impact of other objects, such as terminal buildings, aircraft, cars, and people. With the experiment in airports, this paper analyses the advantages of different bird detection radars. Therefore, this paper evaluates the performance of different bird detection radars in the application of airports.

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EITCE '22: Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Conference on Electronic Information Technology and Computer Engineering
October 2022
1999 pages
ISBN:9781450397148
DOI:10.1145/3573428
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  1. active radar
  2. bird control
  3. bird strikes
  4. electromagnetic radar
  5. mechanical radar
  6. optical radar
  7. passive radar
  8. phase array radar

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