Radar entomology : observing insect flight and migration /

• Main Authors: Drake, V. Alistair, (Author), Reynolds, D. R. 1947- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Insects > Migration.; Entomology.; Radar in agriculture.; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Automation and Control.; Behaviour (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Techniques and Methodology.; Insects.; Dispersal.; Flight.; Insect pests.; Migration.; Monitoring.; Movement.; Plant pests.; Radar.; Radio waves.; Remote sensing.; Surveillance.; Electronic books.
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This book (10 chapters) covers radar entomology and its application in the study and monitoring of insect flight and migration. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to both radar and the biological phenomena that entomologists have studied with radars. An outline of alternative and complementar...

Table of Contents:

• Remote sensing and insect observation
• Radar principles
• Insects as radar targets
• Entomological radar designs
• Observing insects with radar I: Performance, surveillance, and target characterization
• Observing insects with radar II: Quantitative estimation and parameter retrieval
• Additional radar, radar-like, and radio technologies for insect observation
• Insect migration, its quantification, and the role of the atmosphere
• Insect migratory flight I: Principal features
• Insect migratory flight II: Concentrations and disturbances
• Insect migration, population movements, and pest management
• Migrations of pest and beneficial insects
• Insect foraging movements
• Insect echo on meteorological radars
• Radar entomology: perspectives and prospects.