Technology
ICARUS employs tiny animal tags that communicate with powerful receivers installed on satellites 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. With pole-to-pole coverage of the planet, the system can map the movements of birds, bats, marine reptiles, and land mammals across the globe.
The mini-transmitters specially designed for ICARUS will soon weigh less than 1 gram.
The transmitters send their measurements to the receiver station at regular intervals.
Tags transmit data to a receiver in space, which in turn transmit the data back to Earth
Movebank is used by thousands of researchers to collect, manage, share, visualize, analyze, and archive their animal tracking and sensor data.
