From July 16, 2019 (Tuesday) in Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture, a demonstration project for confirming farmland planting using analysis by drone and AI has started.
This is the first attempt in Japan to carry out a demonstration as a “business” that incorporates automatic discrimination by AI in confirming crop crops by drone aerial photography.
By replacing the on-site confirmation work on the farmland with on-site confirmation using drones and AI, it is expected that the burden on city staff will be significantly reduced.
・ Contractor: OPTiM Corporation (Tokyo)
URL: https://www.optim.co.jp
・ Co-sponsor: Production Nap Co., Ltd. (Nagasaki)
URL: http://www.production-nap.com/
Below is a quote from the press release
Japan’s first! Started demonstration project of agricultural land planting confirmation work using drone and AI
Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture has started a demonstration project of confirmation of agricultural land planting using analysis by drone and AI from Tuesday, July 16, 2019. This is the first time in Japan * to carry out agricultural land planting confirmation work using AI.
Currently, in the confirmation of planting of the target farmland, multiple city officials spend about 120 man-days checking the farmland throughout the city, and about 160 man-days work is required including pre-preparation and post-confirmation. doing. Furthermore, if we accumulate the on-site confirmation work for other crops such as wheat and pasture, it takes 360 man-hours, which is equivalent to about one year, in the entire city. Replacing these with on-site confirmation using drones and AI is expected to significantly reduce man-hours.
- First in Japan … As of June 28, 2019, according to OPTiM research. As an attempt to carry out a demonstration as a “business” that incorporates automatic discrimination by AI in the confirmation of crop crops by drone aerial photography.
Fixed wing drone
[Purpose of the project]
(1) Measurement of the effect of improving work efficiency when on-site confirmation work by humans is replaced by drones and AI
(2) Cost merit for full-scale introduction and arrangement of issues such as laws and regulations
(3) AI Verification of discrimination accuracy by
(4) Verification of utilization of saved farmland confirmation image record for reconfirmation work
[Target crops and range]
(1) Paddy rice (Komabuchi district, Yamabata district, Muta district, Nihonkusu district)… July period
(2) Wheat / grass (Sakiyama district)… February / March period
Around the above area We plan to have an area centered on farmland where plots have been improved.
* From next year onward, we plan to expand the target area and implement the project.
Agricultural land planting confirmation demonstration site
[Business description]
A few weeks to a few months after planting the target crop, the cropping situation of the farmland was photographed with a drone. After that, the captured image is used for confirmation AI engine to determine whether the crop is definitely planted for each target agricultural area image.
The drone will record the crop planting information that people have previously identified and recorded locally, and AI will determine it. As a result, human work only requires detailed confirmation using drone images only for agricultural land that is judged to require scrutiny based on the AI discrimination results.
In the future, we will aim to promote efficiency so that we can expand the number of administrative services that people should perform by entrusting on-site confirmation work to drones and AI as much as possible.
This project will be implemented as part of the “Goto City Drone i-Land Project” funded by the Cabinet Office Regional Revitalization Promotion Grant.
・ Contractor: OPTiM Corporation (Tokyo)
・ Co- sponsor : Production Nap Co., Ltd. (
Saga ) [Optim Co., Ltd.]
Listed market: Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section
Securities code: 3694
URL: https: / /www.optim.co.jp
Saga Main Store: 1 OPTiM Headquarters, Saga City, Saga Prefecture OPTiM
Headquarters Tokyo Headquarters: 1-2-20 , Minato-ku, Tokyo Shiodome Building 21st Floor
Representative: Shunji Sugaya
- [Production Nap Co., Ltd.]
- URL: http://www.production-nap.com/
- Location
- 1-35 Uwamachi, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture Representative: Toyofumi Nita
Inquiries
Goto City Hall Regional Promotion Department Commerce and Industry Employment Policy Division Employment / Entrepreneurship Promotion Group
Person in charge: Hamamoto / Horiuchi
Telephone: 0959-72-7862