Aero Sensing Services
Yamaha Motor offers advanced laser surveying using industrial unmanned helicopters, enabling the acquisition of highly accurate topographic and forest data.
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Technology Vision
Sensing our world from the sky.
Revealing its unseen value and inspiring *Kando for future generations.
Through sensing, data analytics, and visualization, we contribute to a sustainable society where people and nature coexist in harmony.
One-Stop Solutions for Sensing, Analysis, and Visualization
Leveraging wide-area, high-density point cloud data and advanced analytics, we turn complex spatial
information into actionable insights, revealing value that was previously unseen.
CapabilitiesWhat we can do?
High-precision airborne laser scanning across wide and complex environments, generating and visualizing 3D spatial information tailored to the intended purpose.
- Flight
- Using our in-house-developed unmanned helicopters and other suitable UAVs, together with our proprietary flight technology, we enable efficient, wide-area surveying with extended flight endurance, even in rugged or windy environments.
- Point Cloud Acquisition & Generation
- Acquires and generates high-density point clouds exceeding 3,000 points per square meter, with quality comparable to terrestrial laser scanning, resolving even complex forests in detail from the canopy through the forest interior to the ground surface.
- Data Analysis & Visualization
- Identifies and extracts the targets required for the survey objective, including trees, the ground surface, and structures. From the extracted targets, quantitative data can be generated and 3D spatial information visualized.
- One-Stop Solutions
- Tightly integrates advanced sensing, point cloud generation, analysis, and visualization technologies, optimizes the entire process, and delivers one-stop solutions.
- Research and Development
- Researches and develops the optimal technologies and methods for each survey objective, target, and required deliverable, from survey methods through analysis and visualization.
TechnologyHow we can do it?
Advancing our flight, acquisition, point cloud generation, and analysis technologies, and integrating and optimizing them as a single continuous workflow.
- Flight Technology
- Leveraging advanced flight control technology and in-house-developed unmanned helicopters backed by extensive operational experience, we deliver stable flight performance and data acquisition tailored to survey objectives, site conditions, and sensor payloads. We can also select the most suitable UAV platform for each project.
- Point Cloud Acquisition & Generation Technology
- Optimize flight paths, survey methods, and equipment and software configurations to meet specific survey objectives. By applying appropriate processing and corrections based on acquisition conditions and other factors, we generate highly accurate point cloud data.
- Data Analysis & Visualization Technology
- Analyze large-scale point cloud datasets without compromising accuracy or detail, accurately classify and interpret the data, extract insights tailored to each application, and transform them into high-resolution 3D spatial information.
ApplicationsWhere can it be applied?
From land and water to next-generation agriculture and forest conservation, our high-precision 3D spatial data acquired from the air brings new perspectives to a wide range of challenges across diverse fields and contributes to the creation of new value.
Application Fields
Key Application Areas
- Carbon Neutrality :
- We provide the data required for MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification), supporting the generation of carbon credits. Revenue generated through carbon credits can then be reinvested in forest conservation and sustainable forest-based initiatives, creating long-term environmental and economic value.
- Archaeology :
- We support new discoveries and advanced research at archaeological sites hidden deep within the jungle. Furthermore, by creating digital archives of these sites and mapping the surrounding landscape, we contribute to safer tourism and local job creation.
Latest Case StudiesWhat have we actually done?
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Archaeology
September 23, 2026Topographic Survey of the Maya Site of Copán, UNESCO World Heritage Site
- High-density LiDAR visualizes the terrain of an ancient Maya city hidden beneath dense forest -
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Carbon
September 23, 2026Carbon Credit Creation through Forest Measurement and Management, Hinohara Village, Tokyo, Japan
- Visualizing the value of a forest to create Japan's first forest-derived voluntary carbon credits Turning forest conservation into a sustainable business through forest measurement and natural capital assessment -
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Our technology for your project.
We welcome inquiries about specific projects, as well as about technical collaboration, joint research, and exploring new application fields. From airborne surveying through point cloud generation to analysis and visualization, we provide one-stop support throughout the entire process.
*Please note that we will not be able to respond to inquiries about anything other than Aero Sensing Services.
*Please note that it may take some time to respond to certain inquiries.
Publications
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Seeing the ruins through the trees
Partner Content (Advertorial), Nature, September 2026
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Monetary valuation of tree ecosystem services using i-Tree Eco and UAV: development of a model eliminating the need for DBH data
Norikazu Eguchi, Shunji Yachi, Takatsugu Hirayama, Eisaku Seguchi, Jun Yajima
Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Vol. 22, pp. 143–151, 2026
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Measurement of individual pine trees using 3D point cloud around Yasu region
Kazuyoshi Aoyagi, Jun Yajima, Chie Morioka, Eisaku Seguchi, Satoshi Nakajima, Hiroyasu Nakao, Kaoru Kato, Tomoharu Sugiyama
Journal of the Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 145–148, 2023
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Introduction of Yamaha Motor’s forest measurement & analysis technology
Jun Yajima, Peii Tzaan, Takeya Harada
Yamaha Motor Technical Review, No. 56, 2021
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