33c185f3-15d0-417d-824f-10ee8bc7d14a 642002de-0be8-4509-9375-a83ecae395cc 1.0 Radar Aeroecology Virtual Lab 2026-02-03 The airspace is becoming increasingly crowded. High-rises, wind farms and airports all contribute to conflict with aerial organisms. <div>Information about the movements of organisms in the air is required to identify stop-over sites, migratory routes, and patterns. This can inform mitigation of conflicts by, for example, wind-turbine curtailments or early warning systems for aviation. Weather radars, that continuously monitor the sky across continents, can be used to study movements of birds, bats, and insects. However, for continental scale analysis, large volumes of data are required to be processed and analyzed, which often rely on institute-specific tools and computational resources. </div>This severely hampers collaborative efforts because of the initial investment of time and resources to gain access to existing computing infrastructure. The Radar Aeroecology Virtual Lab (RAVL) facilitates collaboration and re-use of infrastructure and tools.<div>The vLab has been created by using the LifeWatch NaaVRE platform (<a href="https://naavre.net" target="_blank">https://naavre.net</a>/) .</div> https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/api/records/33c185f3-15d0-417d-824f-10ee8bc7d14a/attachments/Ravl_flowchart.png RAVL thumbnail Aerial animal movement Biological scatter Bird migration Radar ontology Weather radar Altitude profile Berend-Christiaan Wijers IBED - University of Amsterdam B.C.Wijers@uva.nl Koen Greuell LifeWatch ERIC koen.greuell@lifewatch.eu https://beta.naavre.net/vreapp/vl/ravl WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to the virtual lab https://naavre.net WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Open NaaVRE https://beta.naavre.net/jupyter/hub/user-redirect/lab/tree/Virtual%20Labs/RAVL/Git%20public/virtual_lab/documentation/RAVL_tutorial.ipynb