Award Number: DE-EE0007880CX(s) Applied: B3.3Wind Energy Technologies OfficeLocation(s): MultiOffice: Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
January 18, 2018
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Award Number: DE-EE0007880
CX(s) Applied: B3.3
Wind Energy Technologies Office
Location(s): Multiple
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to the American Wind Wildlife Institute (AWWI) to compare the detection and classification of golden eagles by the IdentiFlight system to human observers at two wind energy facilities in the western United States. AWWI would partner with Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) of Fort Collins, Colorado, to independently evaluate how IdentiFlight compares to human observers (aka ‘biomonitors’) in detecting and identifying eagles under a suite of environmental conditions and would use the observation data to model how IdentiFlight and biomonitors reduce the eagle fatality prediction through informed curtailment. The IdentiFlight system uses standard image-sensors, high-magnification stereoscopic sensors, and high-performance artificial intelligence algorithms for autonomous real-time image processing.