Japan Hunters Association, Dainihon Ryouyukai, headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, plans to conduct a survey of the population of wild animals such as Japanese deer and wild boars with a Drone, a small unmanned aerial vehicle.
A new system has been developed for counting a number of wild animals from the sky. More accurate researches on the wildlife population are expected to be useful for effective measures to capture crop-raiding wild animals.
In a traditional survey of the wildlife population, a number of wild animals including Japanese deer is estimated by various ways such as a visual inspection of animal’s population and herds, finding of their dungs and footprints, and calculations of captured animals.
With the newly developed system, a shape of a wild animal can be remembered in the system itself to discriminate the animal from others.
Although protective colored wild animals are hardly counted through a visual inspection, a Drone, flying automatically above forests and mountains, can carry an infrared camera which senses animals’ temperature.