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Measuring Microdust with Drones... Increasing Drone Personnel in the Public Sector
-Mission-specified training for 300 employees in 10 new fields such as transportation, forestry and agriculture
-Recreating fire, pollution and special topographies through virtual reality (VR)... Expected to improve operational capacities
□ The on-site management capacities of personnel who operate drones in various public sectors including microdust measurement drones, safety, security, and national defense are expected to be improved greatly.
ㅇ MOLIT (Minister Kim Hyun-mee and the Korea Transportation Safety Authority (President Kwon Byung-woon) announced that it would begin the ‘2019 Drone Pilot Personnel Fostering Project in the Public Sector’ to elevate utilization of drones in the public sector.
ㅇ This project was first organized and began last year to increase drone utilization in the public sector that is being fostered in the early market according to the drone industry development basic plans (Dec 2017).
□ Mission-specified training refers to training to cultivate abilities that can be used immediately on-site in public sectors, and it is part of the work training for improving work capacities such as basic flight training, video editing and processing, special flight in disaster areas, and high-difficulty facility inspections.
ㅇ MOLIT is managing the initial demand of the industrial-use drone market to 4,000 units by ‘21 in various public sectors such as national defense, security, environment, safety and measurement.
- However, there are difficulties to use in work immediately due to difficulties in piloting drones or the lack of expertise to process the acquired videos.
ㅇ Accordingly, MOLIT has conducted a type of new industry-specialized work training to develop and offer training programs according to the necessary capacities when using drones on site for work.
□ The objective of the mission-specified training is to use the convergence of traditional public work and versatile work tool, which is the drone, to efficiently and effective achieve a goal.
ㅇ The sequence of training is first the most fundamental skill of drone piloting, and it is followed by mission-specified training that cultivates advanced work skill such as using software for those who are well-versed in piloting.
ㅇ The mission-specified training course will be developed through the participation of various people including employees (work experts) of the institute subject to the training, flight experts of drone training institutes, and training experts of the Korea Transportation Safety Authority.
ㅇ In particular, plans are to provide training by configuring virtual environments that are not available in reality such as fires, pollution and special topographies suing VR contents, and therefore, it is expected that the quality of education will be enhanced and there will be convergence with different industries as well.
□ Last year, mission-specified training courses were developed in four fields such as fire agency, police, coast guard, and land surveys, and training was provided for about 100 people.
ㅇ This year, with the increased demand for training by national institutes, local government and public institutes, the fields of training will be more than doubled to 10 and the personnel for training will also be tripled to 300 people, to greatly vamp up training.
ㅇ In particular, mission-specified training is scheduled to be conducted for the first time this year in the environmental sector, for which there is great national anticipations such as for measuring microdust, as well as in the transportation, forestry and agriculture sectors.
□ The flight piloting training for cultivating fundamentals, will be provided jointly by the public and private sectors through cooperation using private training institutes that had already conducted significant training.
□ MOLIT Advanced Aviation Division Manager Oh Won-man said, “With the growing utilization of drones, the educational demand was submitted to be 10 times more than the 2019 budget compiled last year, thus showing just how passionate people are about using drones.”
ㅇ He further introduced the direction of the project saying, “We will provide assertive support to elevate utilization by institutes in various public sectors this year and ultimately create a virtuous cycle for the drone market.”
ㅇ He also added, “This year’s project is viewed as stage 1.5, where there is a lot of room to increase compared to stage 1 last year, and as soon as the Integrated Education and Training Center that the is currently being constructed as the educational infrastructure of MOLIT will be completed next year, we plan to expand and develop it to stage 2 that significantly upgrades in terms of both quantity and quality.
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