{"id":1715,"date":"2020-11-17T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:20:31","slug":"monitoring-with-the-new-dti-thermal-imaging-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/monitoring-with-the-new-dti-thermal-imaging-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring with the New DTI Thermal Imaging Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the EU Birds Directive, the eagle-owl enjoys the highest conservation status. \u201cHowever, the population has been decreasing over the past few years in the Meran valley basin that we have been monitoring,\u201d explain ornithologists Florian Gamper and Willy Campei from the avifauna care center at Castle Tyrol. Now the center wants to intensify and professionalize its research activities, so it brought the German company ZEISS on board. The global leader in the field of optics and optoelectronics has made a special thermal imaging camera available to the care center via the Italian general importer Bignami from Auer that can also provide detailed images of the eagle-owls at night.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1716\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/?attachment_id=1716\" class=\"wp-image-1716 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5536.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUp until now, we were only able to observe the eagle-owls with a night-vision device,\u201d explain Gamper and Campei, who together run the avifauna care center at Castle Tyrol. \u201cThe new thermal imaging camera from ZEISS will now add a new level of quality to our research, which is being conducted in close collaboration with the University of Munich.\u201d Dr. Gerold Dobler (Carl Zeiss AG), as well as Dr. Achille Berti and Andy De Santis (Bignami) recently presented the two South Tyrolean ornithologists with the ZEISS DTI 3\/35 thermal imaging camera \u2013 and inquired about the ongoing observation activities on site during one of the daily flight demonstrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1719\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/?attachment_id=1719\" class=\"wp-image-1719 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5555.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only 30 years ago, the Eurasian eagle-owl was considered critically endangered in South Tyrol. \u201cAround the turn of the millennium, the population then stabilized,\u201d Gamper and Campei explain. \u201cIn the meantime, however, we must sadly note that the risk has increased again. The number of breeding pairs is still somewhat stable, but breeding activities are declining \u2013 in other words, the number of fledglings being born is decreasing.\u201d The ornithologists have already identified one cause: the power lines. Now they want to more closely examine whether the increasing use of hail netting is having an effect on the eagle-owl population.<br><br>Equipped with the new, high-resolution ZEISS thermal imaging camera, the two ornithologists will now be able to monitor the eagle-owls even more closely, especially those active at night, while in the following breeding and hunting grounds: on the border between Algund and Meran-Gratsch and around Brunnenburg (Tyrol), in the area around T\u00f6llgraben between Partschins and Algund, in the \u201cGrammegg\u201d area (Partschins, Marling, and Algund), and in the \u201cHappichl\u201d area (Partschins). In addition to conducting research, the care center is also planning various measures to raise public awareness.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipped with the new, high-resolution ZEISS thermal imaging camera, the ornithologists will now be able to monitor the eagle-owls even more closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[932,934],"tags":[],"topics":[],"yst_prominent_words":[101,822],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experience1","category-conservation1"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"ZEISS Birding Team","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/author\/zeissbirding\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/DSCN5541-Kopie-2-600x341.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/category\/experience1\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Experience<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/category\/conservation1\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Conservation<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Experience<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Conservation<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2020","modified":"Updated on December 15, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 17, 2020 11:19 am","modified":"Updated on December 15, 2020 11:20 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.zeiss.com\/sports-optics\/birding\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}