Extracting Migrant Flight Orientation Profiles Using Polarimetric Radar

摘要: Seasonal animal migration is characterized by aligned flight of airborne organisms across large spatial expanses. This large-scale alignment results in azimuthal patterns polarimetric radar products. The following overviews some such and introduces a technique for obtaining vertical profiles migrant orientation exploiting symmetries the product copolar correlation coefficient $\rho_{HV}$ . method compared with several Doppler-velocity-based techniques measuring direction, sensitivity analysis performed. Finally, applied to case nocturnal over Southern Great Plains, demonstrating utility study migratory behavior within airspace.