DeTect corporate headquarters in Panama City, Florida USAApplied Radar Technologies ...

DeTect, Inc. specializes in applied radar remote sensing technologies and systems for aviation safety, security and surveillance, environmental protection, wind energy, weather and wind measurement supporting projects worldwide with over 200 radar systems installed and operating to date.

DeTect Radar Products:

wind profiler radar installtion at the Bangkok airport in Thailand
DeTect is a fully integrated radar company headquartered in Panama City, Florida, USA with company-owned manufacturing facilities in Florida and Colorado and additional offices in Arlington, Virginia (Washington, D.C. area); Montreal, Canada; and, London, England. The company additionally has technical support staff based throughout the US, Canada and Europe and representative offices in over 80 countries to support its customers and installations worldwide. The company is the world leader in advanced bird radar technologies for real-time aircraft birdstrike avoidance, wind energy bird and bat mortality risk mitigation, and industrial bird control with over 120 of its MERLIN bird radars installed in the US, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. The Company's RAPTOR Radar Wind Profiler is the most advanced wind measurement radar available and and was selected by the US National Weather Service for upgrade of the US Next Generation National Profiler Network. DeTect additionally in 2012 deployed the first radar-activated windfarm turbine obstruction lighting system in the US - a HARRIER Visual Warning System - that provides automated activation of wind turbine obstruction lights when aircraft are detected within ten miles of the wind farm.

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MERLIN Aircraft Birdstrike Avoidance Radar Bagram Airbase AfghanistanDeTect's professional staff resources include experienced engineers, scientists, aviation safety specialists, meteorologists and technicians that are experts in remote sensing, radar engineering, system integration, operation and environmental management. Specialized expertise includes BASH (Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard) and wind energy avian risk assessment and management with unique application support from leading radar engineers, software developers, ornithologists, biologists and scientists that provide DeTect clients with the most experienced team of experts in remote sensing of birds and bats in the world.

DeTect Colorado electronics manufacturing facilityCompany facilities include over 30,000 square feet of office, laboratory and manufacturing space in Florida and Colorado to support design, development, assembly, testing and support of advanced radar systems. Research resources include radar airport test sites for systems, components and software development, testing and calibration. DeTect radar systems are built to industrial and military (MILSPEC), European Union (EU CE Mark) and other international standards and incorporate commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) components where possible in order to provide our customers with high performance, competitive cost of acquisition, low O&M, and ongoing technology insertion and upgrade opportunities over the life of the system.

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HARRIER Air Surveillance Radar used by Boeing Insitu Group for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle airspace sense-and-avoid supportDeTect radar systems are in use at facilities and projects worldwide with a proven record of exceptional performance, reliability and operability and over five million hours of successful operating experience on systems operating since 2003. The US Air Force has purchased seven MERLIN systems to date based on a documented record of improved aircrew safety, reducing aircraft-birdstrike damage and increasing mission readiness. NASA, after evaluation and on-site testing of various bird radar technologies, selected DeTect's MERLIN system to support space launch safety for the $2 billion space shuttle for 22 launches from 2006 to the end of the program in 2011 with 100% system uptime.

DeTect's radar application experts provide full system integration and operation support for its radar productsWith DeTect, customers are getting more than a radar system - as a fully integrated company DeTect provides comprehensive application support with each system that includes full concept-of-operations (CONOPS) development, human factors design, system operational integration, site-specific operation user training and long-term 24-7 support. Each system is supported by DeTect's team of application specialists who have extensive backgrounds and experience in radar systems design, manufacture, siting and, most importantly, integration and use of the technology in the real-world environment with effective user interfaces to meet each customer's specific business operational requirement.

 

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May 5-8, 2012 - WINDPOWER 2013, Chicago, Illinois USA - DeTect exhibit (booth 1260) of MERLIN Avian Radar System technologies for wind farm bird/bat mortality risk assessment and operational mitigation, and HARRIER Visual Warning Systems for radar-activated turbine obstruction lighting activation. (conference website)

June 12, 2013 - Offshore Wind 2013, Manchester, England, UK - DeTect exhibit of MERLIN Avian Radar System technologies for wind farm bird and bat mortality risk assessment and operational mitigation (conference website)

August 12-15, 2013 - Bird Strike Committee - USA Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA - DeTect paper and exhibit on MERLIN Aircraft Birdstrike Avoidance Radar technologies for BASH management (conference website)

September 16-20, 2013 - 36th Conference on Radar Meteorology, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA - DeTect paper and exhibit on RAPTOR Radar Wind Profilers (conference website)

October 5-10, 2013 - The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA - DeTect exhibit and paper on avian radar and wildlife control systems (conference website)

October 8-11, 2013 - InterAirport Europe, Munich, Germany - DeTect exhibit of bird strike avoidance and wind profiling radar technologies (conference website)

October 15-17, 2013 - World Meteorological Organization Expo, Brussels, Belgium - DeTect exhibit of radar wind profiler and SODAR wind profiling technologies (conference website)

October 20-23, 2013 - American Wind Energy Association Offshore Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA - DeTect paper and exhibit on wind energy bird radar and wind profiling technologies (conference website)

FEATURED TECHNOLOGY:

Avian Hazard Advisory System - Developed and operated by DeTect for the US Air Force, AHAS automatically processes radar data from the US NEXRAD national radar sensor network and provides real-time bird-aircraft strike risk assessments for all US military training routes, ranges for the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Korea. This system has reduced USAF bird-aircraft strikes by over 50% since start-up while increasing airspace utilization (see www.usahas.com for more information and operational demonstration).

RECENT NEWS:

April 22, 2013 - Video: MERLIN Avian Radar Systems Support Texas Gulf Coast Migratory Studies - The Nature Report releases video on ground-breaking multi-year migratory bird research by Dr. Bart Ballard of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M Kingsville using MERLIN Avian Radar Systems (link to video and article on-line).

April 2, 2013 - DeTect Selected for 2013 Governor's Business Ambassador Award - Florida Governor Rick Scott today presented DeTect's President Ron Merritt a Governor's Business Ambassador Award in recognition of DeTect's contribution to the US export economy. Over 65% of DeTect's US manufactured radar systems are exported with over 200 systems delivered to Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia since 2003.

March 15, 2013 - DeTect Announces Low Power MERLIN Avian Radar System for Offshore Applications - DeTect today announced availability of a MERLIN bird radar system model designed specifically for offshore applications such as wind energy preconstruction survey and operational bird mortality risk mitigation and oil and gas exploration and production. The MERLIN DC system was developed specifically as a low power demand unit for remote sites with limited availability power supply.

February 8, 2013 - DeTect has completed start-up of a RAPTOR VAD-BL Boundary Layer Radar Wind Profiler at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand (IATA BKK) - The wind profiler is part of the Aviation Decision Support System (AWDSS) supplied by Weather Decision Technologies that provides a comprehensive turnkey solution to provide safe and effective airport operations by integrating all available meteorological data at an airport

January 29, 2013 - DeTect has received a $9.5 million firm fixed price subcontract from QinetiQ North America (QNA) to deliver a 50 megahertz (MHz) RAPTOR® Doppler Radar Wind Profiler (DRWP) to the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida - The new RAPTOR DRWP will replace the existing 1980's 50 MHz DRWP that provides wind speed and direction measurements from 2 to 18 kilometers altitude providing critical support to NASA, the US DoD and commercial launch service providers in assuring space launch safety and mission success. The system is scheduled to be installed and operational in 2014 (see full story on NASA web site)

January 8, 2013 - San Diego Gas & Electric Orders DeTect RAPTOR Radar Wind Profilers for Modeling of Santa Ana Winds: DeTect has received a $913,000 contract from Western Weather to supply and support two RAPTOR Radar Wind Profilers (RWPs) for San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) that will be used by the utility for prediction and monitoring for the operation of electrical distribution network.

November 27, 2012 - DeTect presents paper on Raptor risk mitigation radar systems at the National Wind Coordinating Committee Research Meeting in Boulder, Colorado USA - Dr. Karen Voltura of DeTect presented a paper 'A Roadmap for Mitigating Raptor Risk at Windfarms: Application of Advanced Avian Radar Technology' on the MERLIN SCADA-R system (download paper)

October 29, 2012 - DeTect Profilers in Maryland Track Hurricane Sandy Winds - Three RAPTOR Radar Wind Profilers owned and operated by the State of Maryland Department of the Environment measured wind speeds of more than 100 mph from ground level to 4 kilometers during Hurricane Sandy (view wind data)

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