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mounted laptop computer (Figure 6-88), an external wireless USB cell phone card, virtual
private network (VPN) software to gain access to the Port’s computer network, and Virtual
Network Computing (VNC) software to view the display of the DRP. In addition, they used the
Google Earth Client (GEC) software connected via the internet to the Enterprise server at the
ARTI facility in Ontario, Canada to view the same output from the SEAAR1m radar. The
wildlife biologists did not use the ARTI TVW software at SEA because they were in the process
of testing the automated “sense and alert” feature of this software and could not use its remote
display as part of this evaluation.
Figure 6-88. Remote access to the Digital Radar Processor (DRP) software operating the AR-11
computer provided the wildlife biologists with radar-generated plot and track information on
suspected bird targets.
Results
Wildlife Hazard Management Implementation – To better understand how to best implement the
available remote display technologies, the evaluators first investigated three topics of interest (see
methods described in Appendix E): (1) Early Notification, (2) Observational Confirmation, and
(3) Display Latency. The latter was of particular importance because latency was different for
trials that tested the scenario of a hypothetical bird landing or taking off, compared to “fly
passing” activity where the target was in constant motion.
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