{"id":194425,"date":"2025-12-20T06:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/194425\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:45:07","slug":"japanese-drone-school-develops-ai-system-to-track-bears-amid-rise-in-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/194425\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese drone school develops AI system to track bears amid rise in encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drone school in northeastern <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/japan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Japan<\/a> is developing a new system that uses drones and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> to identify and automatically track bears amid a surge in bear-related incidents.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new system being developed by D-Academy Tohoku in Gojome, Akita prefecture, will be able to detect bears hidden from view in mountainous or urban areas and share their locations via smartphones.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is expected to be available next year, and local authorities are already showing a keen interest.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The aircraft, measuring 98cm (38 inches) in length, 76cm (30 inches) in width and 48cm (19 inches) in height, will be equipped with a night-vision camera and an infrared camera for measuring temperatures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Upon receiving a sighting report, a pilot will launch the aircraft and fly it over the area while it sends images.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hokkaido government officials check footage taken by a drone in Hakodate on October 14. Photo: Kyodo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/583c8fe7-037f-43cc-aa37-eeb8554bb96e_b483b9d4.jpg\" title=\"Hokkaido government officials check footage taken by a drone in Hakodate on October 14. Photo: Kyodo\"\/>Hokkaido government officials check footage taken by a drone in Hakodate on October 14. Photo: Kyodo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">These images are analysed by AI software installed on a PC, and if a bear is detected, the aircraft switches to autonomous flight and tracks the animal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drone school in northeastern Japan is developing a new system that uses drones and artificial intelligence to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[345,110751,110749,28480,114,110755,22892,110753,110752,110754,5957,110750,85,110756,46,1437,110758,110757],"class_list":["post-194425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-akita-prefecture","tag-bear-related-incidents","tag-bears","tag-business","tag-d-academy-tohoku","tag-drones","tag-fujitaka","tag-fukushima-prefecture","tag-gojome","tag-gps","tag-hunting-clubs","tag-il","tag-infrared-camera","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-kanako-ishii","tag-kitaakita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}