Experiment using map data in Suginami Ward in an urban area, Tokyo, December 20, 18:08
An experiment using the high-precision terrain data held by local governments was conducted in Suginami-ku, Tokyo, in order to connect small drones to the technology to accurately fly drones in urban areas.
Drone, currently, but are prohibited from flying in the sky there are people, the country and to allow the flight to prospect a four-year decree sum of three years, shows the policy is to spread the use applications.
Under these circumstances, in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, a ward and a system contractor participated in an experiment to accurately fly a drone in an urban area.
In the experiment, a virtual space was constructed on a riverbed about 30 km away based on the high-precision topographic data released by the ward for free.
This data surveys latitude, longitude, and building height information at 25-centimeter intervals, which is 400 times the amount of information published by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan.
On the monitor in the ward office, the state of the riverbed was projected, and the drone was blown remotely to check the location information to see if it was flying in the virtual space according to the specified route.
If the accuracy of the map is low, drones may collide with buildings in urban areas, so Kenji Ozeki, president of the system development company that participated, said, “There is a need for a high-precision map that Suginami Ward has released. I would like local governments throughout the country to proceed. "
Mr. Takeshi Hoshino, deputy counselor of Suginami City Urban Development Department, “I think it ’s a waste to use it only for administrative work. I was talking.