Category: Environmental assessment

HiDef aerial surveying / BioConsult SH
 
HiDef aerial surveying (UK) and BioConsult SH (Germany) joined forces in 2016 to become the world leader in aerial digital surveys for marine megafauna and birds (with the bespoke HiDef system), and one of the most recognized consultancy in the world on addressing environmental and biodiversity issues of renewable energy.
With a strong experience on marine environment and offshore /onshore wind farms monitoring, HiDef / BioConsult are part of the Biotope alliance since 2022.
Together, Biotope, BioConsult SH and HiDef Aerial Surveying combine a vast experience on onshore and offshore wind globally

• Terrestrial expertise (all species and ecosystems) with traditional and innovative methods
• Marine expertise (especially birds, marine megafauna, underwater acoustic)
• Digital aerial surveys
• Radar, telemetry and acoustic expertise
• Data analysis, biostatistics and reporting
• Impacts assessments
• Mitigation and offsetting measures
Application of Artificial Intelligence on picture/videos for object detection and species identification
• Innovation and research programs

With 30 years of experience and more than 450 employees, Biotope is one of the European leading ecological consultancies with a strong focus on biodiversity, landscape management and environmental issues.
Biotope provides a broad range of services including consulting, regulatory studies, training and communication. A fully independent consultancy, Biotope services are designed for businesses, communities, government services and NGOs.
With more than 10 subsidiaries based worldwide, Biotope conducts and supports projects and actions on all six continents and all five oceans.
 
Since 2022, Biotope, BioConsult SH and HiDef Aerial Surveying have joined forces to form the largest alliance of ecological consultancies in Europe.
 
Together, they provide extensive experience on offshore and onshore ecological and environmental studies, with a strong focus on innovative solutions.

Biodiv-Wind is a French company specialising in the development, the installation and the operation of birds & bats real time detection devices for onshore & offshore wind farms production.
Its know-how and ongoing developments in AI technology and in collision mitigation solutions are recognized in France and abroad.
Since 2015, Biodiv-Wind has equipped nearly 550 wind turbines in 11 countries including France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Brazil, South Africa and carried out wildlife studies in several other countries (Finland, Iceland…).


Its team consists of skilled employees in IT, engineering and ecologists.
 
Biodiv-Wind systems are universal systems compliant with any type of wind generator turbine. The solutions are flexible and scaled to the customer need. Easy to install, robust and non-intrusive, the equipment is coupled with a protected customer platform to retrieve and download complete reports about the park activity.
 
Biodiv-Wind creates the loop between AI driven species expertise and wind power. Its aim is to help to accelerate environmental authorization permits, thus maximizing clean energy production at reduced costs and risks, while caring for ecosystem dynamics and avifauna species’ protection.