The Anonymous Widower

AI Tech Tracking Seabirds At Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.

This is the sub-heading.

Vattenfall, Norwegian AI technology start-up Spoor, and British Trust for Ornithology have teamed up on a project that will test AI technology in tracking 3D flight paths of seabirds flying near the wind turbine blades at the Aberdeen Bay Offshore Wind Farm in Scotland.

This is the first paragraph.

The project has already started, with four cameras already installed and collecting data on birds’ 3D flight paths throughout the wind farm and in the immediate vicinity of the turbine blades. Data on seabird movements has already started coming in and validation trials have been completed both offshore, with an observer present, and onshore, with a drone, according to Vattenfall.

This looks like a very neat piece of technology, that hopefully will solve how birds interact with wind turbines.

From my experience of landing and taking off light aircraft at the old Ipswich Airport, where there were a lot of seabirds, my money would be on that birds will learn to use their AI (Avian Intelligence) to avoid the blades of wind turbines.

September 14, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Environment | Aberdeen Bay Wind Farm, Artificial Intelligence, Birds, Birds And Wind Turbines, Innovation, Offshore Wind Power, Research, Vattenfall, Wind Power