Reconciling Species Protection and Wind Energy

The contribution of wind energy expansion will be central to Germany’s energy transformation. The buildout of wind power, however, has been facing strong headwinds lately. Currently, fewer and fewer wind farms are being installed. Why is that? The reason often lies in legal matters. Lawsuits due to the protection of endangered species often delay the process. The authorities need to ensure that the construction and use of wind farms complies with the provisions of bird protection directives: the habitat of threatened species must not be impaired by power plants...

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• Publication accepted at ICLR 2025
  Unser Paper BirdSet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Audio Classification in Avian Bioacoustics von Lukas Rauch, Raphael Schwinger, Moritz Wirth, René Heinrich, Denis Huseljic, Marek Herde, Jonas Lange, Stefan Kahl, Bernhard Sick, Sven… Publikation akzeptiert bei ICLR 2025 weiterlesen
• New Publication in Ecological Informatics
  Unser Paper AudioProtoPNet: An interpretable deep learning model for bird sound classification von René Heinrich, Lukas Rauch, Bernhard Sick und Christoph Scholz erscheint in der 87. Ausgabe von Ecological Informatics.… Neue Publikation in Ecological Informatics weiterlesen
• DeepBirdDetect in the BWE Industry Report 2024
  We proudly announce that our work is featured in this year's BWE wind industry report. The annual report published by the German Wind Energy Association presents the current… DeepBirdDetect im Branchenreport Wind 2024 weiterlesen

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