Kyoto University and Dio Co., Ltd. will begin joint research on digitizing disaster victim certificates issued by local governments after natural disasters.
Currently, disaster victim certificates issued by local governments when houses, etc. are damaged due to natural disasters are issued after local government officials go to the disaster area and manually check and assess the damage to the buildings. .For this reason, large-scale disasters require enormous amounts of effort and time, which poses challenges for early recovery.If the digitalization of building damage assessment becomes a reality, the burden on local government officials of confirming building damage in the event of a large-scale disaster will be reduced, and highly objective disaster victim certificates will be able to be issued promptly. This will free up time for local government officials to respond to other disaster victims.
The digitization of disaster victim certificates is a business model developed by Dio, which operates a point cloud information business cultivated through three-dimensional digital scanning of historical buildings such as temples, shrines, and temples, and the construction of metaverses.The degree of damage to a building can be determined by measuring and recording detailed three-dimensional point cloud data of a building in advance, and analyzing the difference between the data and the data measured after a disaster.
In the demonstration experiment, 3D point cloud data of buildings in the target area will be measured and recorded using open data such as XNUMXD city models.Afterwards, we use small unmanned aircraft (drones) and GPS to measure three-dimensional data of buildings damaged by natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, and heavy rain, and use AI (artificial intelligence) to calculate the differences from before the disaster. analysis.We will examine and verify a method for objectively and quickly determining damage by quantifying the degree of damage to a building.Through this, we will examine the verification and standardization of three-dimensional digital data during natural disasters that will speed up disaster victim certification and reduce costs, and consider how to operate digital disaster victim certification as social infrastructure.
Going forward, demonstration experiments will continue until the end of March 2025 with the cooperation of multiple local governments.
