Towards global insect biomonitoring with frugal methods

M Brydegaard, RD Pedales, V Feng… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
None of the global targets for protecting nature are currently met, although humanity is
critically dependent on biodiversity. A significant issue is the lack of data for most biodiverse …

A review of insect monitoring approaches with special reference to radar techniques

A Noskov, J Bendix, N Friess - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drastic declines in insect populations are a vital concern worldwide. Despite widespread
insect monitoring, the significant gaps in the literature must be addressed. Future monitoring …

Multiband modulation spectroscopy for the determination of sex and species of mosquitoes in flight

A Gebru, S Jansson, R Ignell, C Kirkeby… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present a dual‐wavelength polarimetric measurement method to distinguish species
and sexes of disease transmitting mosquitoes in flight. By measuring co‐and de‐polarized …

The bat–bird–bug battle: Daily flight activity of insects and their predators over a rice field revealed by high-resolution scheimpflug lidar

E Malmqvist, S Jansson, S Zhu, W Li… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present the results of, to our knowledge, the first Lidar study applied to continuous and
simultaneous monitoring of aerial insects, bats and birds. It illustrates how common patterns …

Real-time dispersal of malaria vectors in rural Africa monitored with lidar

S Jansson, E Malmqvist, Y Mlacha, R Ignell, F Okumu… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Lack of tools for detailed, real-time observation of mosquito behavior with high spatio-
temporal resolution limits progress towards improved malaria vector control. We deployed a …

A Scheimpflug lidar used to observe insect swarming at a wind turbine

S Jansson, E Malmqvist, M Brydegaard, S Åkesson… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wind turbines have considerable impact on flying animals, particularly bats, which are
sometimes killed in large numbers by the moving rotors. A longstanding question remains …

Drone-based area scanning of vegetation fluorescence height profiles using a miniaturized hyperspectral lidar system

X Wang, Z Duan, M Brydegaard, S Svanberg, G Zhao - Applied Physics B, 2018 - Springer
We have developed a compact hyperspectral lidar system based on a continuous-wave
(CW) 445 nm diode laser and a double Scheimpflug imaging arrangement. The light-weight …

Lidar reveals activity anomaly of malaria vectors during pan-African eclipse

M Brydegaard, S Jansson, E Malmqvist, YP Mlacha… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Yearly, a quarter billion people are infected and a half a million killed by the mosquito-borne
disease malaria. Lack of real-time observational tools for continuously assessing the …

Scheimpflug lidar range profiling of bee activity patterns and spatial distributions

K Rydhmer, J Prangsma, M Brydegaard, HG Smith… - Animal …, 2022 - Springer
Background Recent declines of honeybees and simplifications of wild bee communities, at
least partly attributed to changes of agricultural landscapes, have worried both the public …

Scheimpflug lidar for combustion diagnostics

E Malmqvist, M Brydegaard, M Aldén, J Bood - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A portable Lidar system developed for large-scale (~ 1-20 m) combustion diagnostics is
described and demonstrated. The system is able to perform remote backscattering …