Bats play a crucial role as bioindicators of environmental changes, making their monitoring highly valuable. In particular, wind energy plants have been found to cause significant fatality rates among bats, as well as birds, mainly through direct collision with the rotor blades or through barotrauma effects. However, the manual identification and classification of bats through...Read More
The project “Applied Sensor Data Fusion for In-situ Wind Turbine Blade Structural Health Monitoring (SENSITU)” has been selected for funding. The project partners are: Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Coordinator) Wölfel Engineering GmbH + Co. KG (Höchberg) IMST GmbH (Kamp-Lintfort) Hamburg University of Technology (Hamburg) Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, associated partner) BOREAS Energietechnik...Read More
A journal paper coordinated by Dr. Leandro Maio and Dr. Vittorio Memmolo on ice accretion assessment has been accepted for publication in Measurements journal. Abstract: Reliable ice detection is crucial in many industrial applications, such as airplanes or wind turbines. The presence of ice can lead, on one side, to performance degradation, such as higher...Read More
Five papers have been accepted for a technical presentation at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2023. It will take place at Stanford University (USA) in September 2023. Paper #1 (PROFI-WIND project): Mälzer, M.; Beck, S.; Alipek, S.; Reichart, E.; Moll, J.; Krozer, V.; Oikonomopoulos, C.; Kassner, J.; Hägelen, M.; Heinecke, T.; Cerbe, B.;...Read More
A journal article on K-band radar systems for breast cancer diagnostics has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. Abstract: Conventional approaches for microwave breast tumor detection are limited by the imaging resolution due to the low operating frequency. The objective of this work is to...Read More
I am happy to have received the IEEE Senior Membership. To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must: Be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields Have experience reflecting professional maturity Have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees) Show significant performance over a...Read More
A joint work related to the Radkom-QS project has been accepted for publication in the Structural Health Monitoring journal. Abstract: This paper presents the design and experimental realization of a cooperative radar network for structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades. Therefore, 40 radar sensors operating in the frequency band from 58-63.5 GHz are partially...Read More
A research article has been published in Remote Sensing that investigates flying insects using a continuous-wave radar at W-band. Abstract: Remote sensing techniques in the microwave frequency range have been successully used in the context of bird, bat and insect measurements. This article breaks new ground in the analysis of freely flying insects by using...Read More
