Discover a range of cutting-edge tools designed to support your environmental research, wildlife monitoring, and data analysis needs. From optimized smart curtailment for wind energy to advanced statistical software, WEST’s digital solutions are tailored to help clients achieve their project goals with efficiency and precision.
Evidence of Absence Intuition Builder and Sensitivity of GenEst to k
Understand Evidence of Absence Models and Explore Detection Probability Sensitivity
An application to help users understand how detection reduction factors (k) influence overall detection probabilities in wildlife fatality estimations and explore how carcass counts, detection probabilities, and statistical bounds influence fatality estimates.
GenEst
Estimate Bird and Bat Fatalities at Renewable Sites
An R package designed for developing accurate bird and bat fatality estimates at wind and solar facilities, with an intuitive graphical interface.
Lesser Prairie-chicken Help
Supporting Lesser Prairie-chicken Conservation
Developed for LPC Conservation LLC, this tool evaluates how infrastructure projects may impact lesser prairie-chicken (LEPC) habitats. It provides preliminary insights aligned with US Fish and Wildlife Service conservation frameworks.
Optimized Smart Curtailment™
Minimize Energy Losses While Supporting Bat Conservation
Optimized Smart Curtailment (OSC) is a tailored, site-specific curtailment algorithm designed to reduce unnecessary power production losses without compromising bat conservation. Using acoustic or thermal video data and turbine SCADA data, OSC generates customized algorithms to meet operational needs.
Post-construction Monitoring Dashboard
Data Visualization to Provide Project Insights
WEST provides cutting-edge data visualization tools, including post-construction monitoring (PCM) data dashboards, tailored to the diverse needs of our clients. Our secure dashboards seamlessly connect to databases, providing clients with access to data and include comprehensive summaries, interactive maps, plots, and a host of other features. For example, PCM dashboards equip users to explore their data throughout the entire project lifecycle, providing information to address project questions with efficiency and accuracy.
Renew Database
A Comprehensive Resource for Wildlife and Renewable Energy Data
Renew is WEST’s authoritative database tracking the effects of renewable energy on wildlife, with a focus on birds and bats. Since 1990, we have compiled pre- and post-construction wildlife data from 332 facilities, offering over 552 reports to assess fatality rates and ecological impacts.
WildWatch
Automated Wildlife Species Detection with Machine Learning
WildWatch is a computer vision algorithm designed to detect and classify target wildlife species in camera trap images, reducing manual processing and costly field monitoring. This system has the capacity to efficiently process millions of images daily with high levels of accuracy, securely storing data on WEST’s servers.
