We, Aero Asahi Corp. (AAC), provide emergency medical services, flying cars, air mobility, surveying, aerial laser, and GIS services.

 We, Aero Asahi Corporation (Headquarters: Tokyo, Toshinori Ogure, CEO) and three other companies (FUJI IMVAC INC. , SkymatiX, Inc. and JAXA ), participated in the project that Japanese spacecraft “Hayabusa2” brought back the sand collected on the asteroid “Ryugu” and applied aerial photography by UAV operations with image analysis technology.

We are pleased to inform you that we developed the technology that detected the capsules landed on earth, and contributed to rapid collection of the capsules.

As a usual method to seek a capsule landed on a vast desert, manned helicopters fly according to beacon information transmitted by the capsule. From this project, as an alternative method in cases the beacon becomes ineffective, it has started to study about systems to detect the capsule by aerial photographing operations by UAV and image analysis technologies.

Aero Asahi selected the sensors and equipment. Fuji-imvac developed the UAV.
SkymatiX developed the image processing application.
Three companies developed, and provided “the capsules detection system using UAV” together,