updated April 8, 2006 --- see important NEWS

 

International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space

Member Institutions Studying Global Bird Migration From Space

The goal of the ICARUS Initiative is to install a system that allows researchers around the world to track small animals on a global scale over the next decades.

Billions of songbirds migrate twice every year between continents. However, detailed migration routes are unknown and until now the technology to track these migraton patterns did not exist. Our collaborators have developed a satellite system that can locate radio-transmitter signals from low orbit - see news).
Other potential solutions include receivers in high-flying UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, drones).