Trial and consideration of making an aerial photography system using a toy drone

－ (Towards a casual personal remote sensing)－

Abstract

Drones weighing less than 200g are classified as model aircrafts and are not subject to the “Japan’s safety rules on Unmanned Aircraft (UA)/Drone”. These lightweight drones are mainly sold as toys (toy-drones), among them, however, something of high performance exceeding the level of toys has been appearing, recently. In this research, with the aim of constructing an aerial photographing system that can casually carry out remote sensing, we carried out trials and considerations by using the high-performance toy-drone. In this paper, after giving the conducted results, we describe the situations where the current toy-drones have a high capability, and the problems when using it for remote sensing.