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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2014
Shinmaywa Industries, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tokyo, JP;
Yushi Goda, Hyogo, JP;
Tsubasa Yamada, Hyogo, JP;
Masatoshi Arimoto, Hyogo, JP;
Shinji Tagawa, Hyogo, JP;
Taiki Nakaie, Hyogo, JP;
Jun Adachi, Hyogo, JP;
Takeshi Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Muraoka, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Funabiki, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Matsuo, Tokyo, JP;
ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When distribution material is distributed over a target site on a ground surface from an aircraft, a distribution supporting apparatus offers support information to a pilot dropping the distribution material to efficiently distribute the distribution material. The distribution supporting apparatus includes: an input section to which information items on at least an aircraft velocity, an aircraft altitude, and a wind velocity are input; a computation section configured to compute a location at which the distribution material dropped from the aircraft arrives on the ground surface and a density distribution of the distribution material on the ground surface based on the information items input to the input section; and a display control section configured to display, on a display, the support information relating to the location and density distribution computed by the computation section.