July 26, 2016
Terra Drone and Hitachi Construction Machinery Announce Partnership to Advance UAV Land-Surveying.
– Accelerate Full-Automatic UAV Operation at Construction Sites –
Tokyo, Japan- July 22, 2016 – Terra Drone, Asian’s leading service provider of unmanned aerial vehicles(UAV), and Hitachi Construction Machinery, the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, announced a partnership to accelerate full-automatic UAV operation at construction sites.
Terra Drone, based in Tokyo, Japan, is a UAV pioneer in surveying and analyzing site conditions of jobsites within the construction industries. The company was born as a part of Terra Group, selling 30,000 electric vehicle annually in Asia. The participation in Hitachi Construction Machinery is comparable to that made in Kajima, Japanese giant construction company. Terra Drone have almost dominated Japanese construction industry.
“What Terra Drone can provide to our customer is land-surveying with fully automated UAV operation and analysis its information, which transmitted through the Internet to software, and creation graphical representations as floor plan and cross section plan [Image_1]” said Toru Tokushige, CEO of Terra Drone. ”That is our strength in comparison to other UAV competitors”.
Graphical representations – floor plan and cross section plan.
Terra Drone also utilizes a fixed-wing UAV with 5 hours flight time and is currently on the experiment of land-surveying at huge construction sites in United States. Not only will the use for construction industry, Terra Drone also applies this UAV method to other fields like agriculture, inspection for oil, plant and electric power companies. With this partnership with Hitachi Construction Machinery, Terra Drone accelerates its growth and innovation more rapidly than ever.
About Terra Drone
Terra Drone is a UAV and software manufacturer, based in Tokyo. By using UAV, Terra Drone also delivers civil engineering surveying services for construction companies and analyzes data. With a wide range of use of UAV, Terra Drone also helps companies to carry out inspection of complex job sites, such as those in construction, oil and gas extraction, agriculture.
Contacts
Terra Drone Co., Ltd.
Yoko Masaki,
+81-3-6419-7193
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