Assignment: monitoring insects

Buzz-Buzz: Monitoring insects without touching them 

     

Problem Statement: 

For assessing the impact of light on insect populations, we need to understand the response of insects at various distances to light sources – because of immediate presence to light, but even more so by long-term presence of illumination. 

The use of radar (and potentially other systems with a bandwidth between 0.1-15 cm) has a great potential for the assessment of both the presence of insects in delimited air volumes, recording the direction of movement, and estimating the size of insects by wingbeat frequency.  

 

Task: 

To goal of this project is to investigate and prototype state of the art technologies (mmWave, RADAR, deep learning, 5G) to classify, count, and track insects around light sources. 

Work: 

10% Theory, 80% Simulations, 10%Writing 


Contact:  

Jeroen Klein Brinke (j.kleinbrinke@utwente.nl)