Unmanned air vehicles probe agricultural disasters in China
Edited and Translated by Yaochun, People’s Daily Online
Beijing–The commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) codenamed AH3N, which was independently developed by Anhua Agricultural Insurance Co., LTD, was granted a chartered flight certificate recently.
It is the very first time in China and it marks the evolvement of China’s commercial UAVhas entered the systematic application phase, a historical new height, from research and development phase.
For a long time, China has used traditional door-by-door means for agricultural disaster investigation which is inefficient and costly and makes the whole agricultural insurance process — from underwriting to claims — imprecise and unprofessional.
The UAV investigation system contains three core technologies: UAV photography system, image post processing system and data analysis system, which can insure the precision, speed and effectiveness of disaster investigation and loss determination.
The UAV investigation system is not only very significant for the precise investigation of agricultural disasters, such as drought, flood and hail, but also very important for rural stability, the increase of the country’s crop production as well as the assurance of farmers’ incom
