UPCOMING EVENTS
January 25-26, 2010 - EU MERLIN Users Meeting, Culemborg, The Netherlands - annual European MERLIN user and technical update meeting (contact for information).
January 26-27, 2010 - 2nd Annual Wind Energy 2009 Environmental, Legal, Financial and Permitting Issues Conference, Austin, Texas USA - DeTect's T. Adam Kelly to present a paper on MERLIN SCADA bird mortality risk mitigation technology. DeTect will also exhibit its 2010 models of bird radar systems for wind energy applications. (conference information).
February 17-18, 2010 - Wind Power Siting Workshop, Denver, Colorado USA - DeTect exhibit of MERLIN and VESPER bird and bat radar technologies for wind farm survey, mortality risk assessment, monitoring, and risk mitigation (workshop information).
March 4, 2010 - Webinar: "Effective Airport-Airline Partnerships for Birdstrike Prevention" - Aviation Week Webinar sponsored by DeTect, Inc. and moderated by DeTect's President and Director of BASH Services and Technologies, Mr. ron Merritt (Click Here for additional information or to register for the Webinar).
April 26, 2010 - 'Beware of the Birds' Presentation, NASA Goddard Engineering Colloquium Series, Greenbelt, Maryland USA - Presentation by T. Adam Kelly (Chief Scientist, DeTect, Inc.) on bird radar technologies and operational strategies (information)
May 23 - 26, 2010 WINDPOWER 2010 Conference & Exhibition Dallas, Texas USA - DeTect to exhibit and present paper on the MERLIN Avian Radar system for terrestrial and offshore wind energy project survey, risk assessment and risk mitigation (conference information).
June 21-24 2010 - Bird Strike Committee USA/Canada Meeting Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - DeTect to exhibit and present paper on its latest birdstrike avoidance radar technologies (conference information).
July 20-22, 2010 - Oil Sands Heavy Technologies conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - DeTect to exhibit the MERLIN detect & deter Bird Control Radar system and co-present paper on the installation at an oil tar sands facility in northern Alberta (conference information). |
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 DeTect, Inc. specializes in remote sensing technologies and systems for aviation safety, security surveillance, environmental management, weather detection and wind measurement supporting projects worldwide. DeTect is the world leader in development, deployment and support of bird radar systems for aircraft birdstrike avoidance, avian risk assessment and migratory research with over 50 systems worldwide to date. The company is a U.S. corporation (Florida) headquartered in Panama City, Florida, USA with divisional offices in the U.S. in Colorado, Kentucky and Virginia (Washington, DC) and in Nova Scotia, Canada. The company additionally maintains representative offices in over 80 countries to support its projects worldwide.
 DeTect professionals have proven track records in delivering cost-effective, operationally-oriented solutions for high profile, diverse, complex projects offering the highest level of service and support. DeTect customers include the United States Air Force, Air National Guard, Army, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Geological Survey (USGS), the Government of the United Kingdom, the Government of Canada, major airports, and energy companies and industries worldwide. The company has delivered and supported systems in throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Asia and New Zealand.
 DeTect products include:
 Aircraft birdstrike avoidance radars- Avian survey & mortality risk mitigation radars
- Bird control radar systems
- Airspace & marine surveillance radars
- Aircraft detection, surveillance & gap filler radars
- NEXRAD environmental data products & networks
- Boundary layer & Tropospheric radar wind profilers
- Low cost weather radars
- Visibility sensors
- Lightning detectors
DeTect expert application solutions include:
- Bird-Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) management
- Airfield & industrial bird & wildlife risk assessment & control
- Wind energy project bird & bat impact assessment & risk mitigation
- Wind measurement & operational monitoring
- Radar system solutions, engineering, design & development
- Data analysis & Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Staff & Facility Resources:
 Professional staff resources include over 80 experienced engineers, scientists, aviation safety specialists and technicians that are experts in remote sensing, radar engineering, system integration and environmental management. Our specialized expertise in BASH and wind energy avian risk management includes a unique combination of top radar ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and programmers that provide DeTect clients with the most experienced team of experts in remote sensing of birds and bats in the world - with specific expertise in design, construction and operation of bird/wildlife radar and monitoring systems for real-time aviation safety and environmental management.
 Facility resources include over 30,000 square feet of office, laboratory and manufacturing space in Florida and Colorado to support design, development, assembly and testing of radar systems. Research resources include radar test sites in Florida and Colorado for components and software development, testing and calibration.
 The Florida test facility is located at the Panama City International Airport (IAP) which provides a “real world” test environment for the company's aviation safety bird radars and airspace and marine surveillance products; the Colorado facility includes a NOAA test and calibration facility for radar wind profilers. DeTect radar systems are built to industrial, US military (MILSPEC) and EU standards and incorporate commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) components where possible in order to provide our customers lowered cost of acquisition, lower cost of ownership and ongoing technology insertion and upgrade opportunities over the life of the system.
Experience
 DeTect systems are in use at facilities and projects worldwide with a proven record of exceptional performance, reliability and operability and over 1 million hours of successful operating experience. The USAF has purchased seven MERLIN systems to date based on a documented record of reducing aircraft-birdstrike damage and NASA, after evaluation and on-site testing of bird radars, selected DeTect's MERLIN system to support space launch safety for the $2 billion, ordering second MERLIN system in 2007 for the US space vehicle program. With DeTect, customers are getting more than a radar system - DeTect provides comprehensive application support with each system that includes full concept-of-operations (CONOPS) development, human factors design, system 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, application and use of the technology in the operating environment. .
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Bird activity map for the continental US for the past 24 hours
(processed data from the US NEXRAD radar sensor network)
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January 19, 2010 - DeTect X-VPR Weather Radar Enters Service at the University of Alabama Huntsville - DeTect's Dopplerized fixed-beam vertical profile weather radar delivered to the University of Alabama Earth System Science Center in Huntsville, Alabama USA is seeing its first use in support of the University's Severe Weather Research Team. The X-VPR is the first of the 'Aquila' line (Latin for 'Eagle') of weather radars from DeTect and is a Dopplerized magnetron-based radar designed for severe weather detection and study of rain and snow bands at upper altitudes (more information).
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January 14, 2010 - DeTect to Sponsor Aviation Week Webinar "Effective Airport-Airline Partnerships for Birdstrike Prevention" - DeTect is pleased to announce its sponsorship of an Aviation Week Webinar on the Birdstrike issue to be held on Thursday, March 4, 2010 with presentations by industry experts in aircraft-bird strike prevention from US Airways, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and DeTect. With the recent news about the increased number of birdstrikes reported in 2009 and on the one year anniversary of the 'Miracle on the Hudson" birdstrike related crash, this webinar offers a timely update on processes and technologies available to reduce birdstrikes and improve aircrew and passenger safety. (Click Here for More Information or to Register for the Webinar).
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January 5, 2010 - Aviation Week Bird Radar/FOD Detection System Roundtable Whitepaper Available Online - The Whitepaper from the Aviation Week Bird Radar and Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Roundtable held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC last October 27, 2009 is now available online. The event brought together senior aviation industry experts from around the world to develop strategic solutions and action plans for integration of bird radar and FOD technologies into US commercial aviation (download the Whitepaper).
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December 31, 2009 - DeTect Achieves Record Sales Growth in 2009: DeTect today announced record sales growth in 2009 of over 65% with increases posted in all of the company's radar product lines. "DeTect was able to achieve this even during the recession due to investments made in prior years in R&D, product diversification and overseas market development", said Gary Andrews, DeTect's CEO. 2009 marked several milestones for the Company that included the first large-scale MERLIN detect & deter Bird Control Radar installation, which also was the first permanent bird radar installation in Canada; the first implementation of a radar-based bird mortality risk mitigation system at a wind farm; delivery of the first-article RAPTOR Radar Wind Profiler to the US National Weather Service; and, installation of a dual use HARRIER Airspace-Marine Surveillance Radar system to the Kodiak space launch complex.
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December 16, 2009 - Pattern Energy Orders MERLIN Avian Radar System for Ocotillo Wind Farm, California USA: Pattern Energy will install a MERLIN Avian Radar System at its proposed Ocotillo Wind Farm near El Centro, California to conduct preconstruction avian surveys. The fully self-contained bird radar system will be operational in January 2010 and will operate unattended 24-7 measuring bird passage rates for mortality risk analysis and modeling.
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December 6, 2009 - US Department of Energy Orders RAPTOR Radar WInd Profiler: The U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) has ordered a DeTect RAPTOR VAD-BL Radar Wind Profiler for its Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring program. The USDOE currently has six radar wind profilers (RWPs) in operation world-wide with in a network providing continuous depiction of atmospheric profiles of wind speed and direction to 3-6 kilometers. This new profiler will be ship-mounted and capable of compensation for the ship motion by electronic beam steering, a requirement met by U.S.-based DeTect’s VAD-BL unique agile beam technology. The contract, administered by the Battelle Pacific Northwest La,b is funded under the US Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and 3-5 new jobs are expected to be created in DeTect' Longmont, Colorado manufacturing plant as a result.
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November 6, 2009 - Tradewind Energy Orders MERLIN Avian Radar System: Headquartered in Kansas, Tradewind Energy has ordered a new generation MERLIN XS20025e Avian Radar System to support its US wind farm projects. The system to be delivered in early 2010 is a fully self-contained, mobile MERLIN bird radar system equipped with the next generation solid-state radar sensor and environmental analysis modules for wind farm avian survey, monitoring and risk assessment.
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November 1, 2009 - DeTect Adds Birdstrike Report Log to Website: DeTect has added a chronological listing on bird-aircraft strike reports published in on-line media on the DeTect website. The listing will be continually updated as new reports are received and can be accessed at www.detect-inc.com/birdstrikes.htm
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October 20, 2009 - DeTect Sponsors Aviation Week Bird Radar and FOD Roundtable: DeTect will host the Aviation Week Bird Radar and Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Roundtable at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The 'by invitation only' event will bring together senior aviation and regulatory experts from around the world to develop strategic solutions and action plans for integration of the technologies into commercial aviation. The Roundtable process will result in a Industry White Paper that will provide recommended goals, objectives and procedures for operational use of the technologies in commercial aviation.
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October 1, 2009 - US Air Force Orders Technology Upgrades for MERLIN Systems at US Air Bases: The USAF has issued an order to DeTect to provide technology upgrades for legacy MERLIN bird radars to include computer upgrades, dual range processors, upgraded birdstrike risk alerting software, expanded 3D radar coverage and solid state radar sensors. The work includes systems that have been operating since 2003 at various US Air Force bases.
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September 10, 2009 - US Air Force Orders DeTect MERLIN™ Birdstrike Radar System for Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan: In another industry first for DeTect, the US Air Force has ordered a MERLIN Bird Radar system for the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan which is the first use of bird strike avoidance radar technology in an active military theater. The MERLIN SS200m system to be delivered to Bagram includes DeTect’s new generation MERLIN SharpEye™ solid-state bird radar sensors that provide enhanced 3-D detection of hazardous bird activity out to 8 miles 360 degrees around the airfield and in all weather conditions. The system is a fully self-contained, mobile military series MERLIN unit with a number of special features that include a Kevlar hardened electronics/technician cabin, redundant dual-range processors, dual power units, military desert paint scheme and Milspec off-road construction. The system will be deployed and operational by the end of 2009 and will provide, real-time 24-7 monitoring of airspace around the airfield for hazardous bird activity providing automated bird strike warnings to air traffic controllers and pilots. The US Air Force purchased its first MERLIN bird radar system in 2003 and has installed six systems at US air bases and ranges to date. (read the full News Release and view photos and video).
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