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scheduled bird observations with the data logged by eBirdRad 6 . Their goal was to correlate the
data from the two sources to determine the value of avian radars in developing airfield hazard
evaluations.
A second eBirdRad unit at MCASCP was deployed to a proposed Outlying Landing Field site in
Washington County, North Carolina (Figure 4-3). This location is approximately 175 km east of
Raleigh, NC and 85 km northeast of MCASCP. The Department of the Navy was conducting
flights of F-18 E/F Super Hornet aircraft at this location to measure sound levels while the
aircraft flew the proposed OLF traffic pattern.
Figure 4-3. Site C at the Outlying Field (OLF) location in Washington County, North Carolina.
The eBirdRad radar at the “OLF Site C (’06)” site was used to monitor bird activity near the
location of a proposed runway, while the “Wildlife Refuge (’06)” eBirdRad radar was monitoring
bird activity in the adjacent Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Data collected in February
2006 from these two radars were used by the IVAR project in its data fusion studies.
The USDA/WS personnel used eBirdRad units during this period to monitor bird activity at the
proposed runway location and on the boundary of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
Information about birds tracked by the radar that were judged to be in the flight path or the
aircraft was relayed in real time to the aircrew of the F-18 E/F during some of these operations.
The eBirdRad unit was also used to investigate the movement of birds in the vicinity of the OLF
site during spring and autumn migration, and during the over-wintering period. During February
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The IVAR project used these same observations in the demonstration of Performance Criterion PB5.1 (Section
6.2.1.5).
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