Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has issued IDs to the first certified Drone Operation Management Service Providers (USPs) that meet the requirements set by the country’s Civil Aviation Bureau.
NTT DATA Corporation and KDDI SmartDrone Co., Ltd. have now been named as the first certified USPs, having met the relevant standards.
In Japan, drones are expected to be used increasingly as an industrial tool to solve social issues such as labour shortages as well as benefit fields such as material transport and infrastructure inspection. As the frequency of drone operations is expected to rise in the future, a framework for appropriately managing drone operations in order to prevent close approaches and collisions between drones, or between drones and manned aircraft, is of course crucial.
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