JP7042710B2 - Wildlife sighting information gathering system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a system used for efficiently collecting and utilizing sighting information of wild animals by utilizing ICT (Information and Communication Technology).

In recent years, wild animals such as wild boars, bears, deer, and monkeys have infested human living areas, and traffic accidents that collide with vehicles, human damage that causes harm to humans, and crop damage that devours agricultural products have increased. ing. It is said that such problems are caused by food shortages caused by humans entering the living area of wild animals, familiarity caused by feeding wild animals, and a decrease in hunters. In order to solve such problems, each local government has adopted its own measures, but the problems have not been sufficiently solved, and serious damage has frequently occurred in some areas.

It is important to share wildlife damage information in the treatment and countermeasures for damage as described above. At present, some local governments collect information on damage caused by wild animals, but because the information is not shared promptly and appropriately, it may not be fully utilized to improve the efficiency of treatment and countermeasures. rice field. Information on wildlife damage and wildlife sightings is often reported to relevant departments of local governments. However, the department in charge differs depending on the content of the information, and the whistleblower often reports to a department other than the person in charge, so it takes time for the information to be transmitted to the entire department in charge, and the report destination is appropriate. If this is not the case, it may be circulated between departments.

Specifically, for example, when it is discovered that a wild animal has been run over on a road, the sighting information is notified to the person in charge of managing the road, and when it is necessary to dispose of the carcass. Is notified to the person in charge of cleaning or the cleaning company. In that case, the jurisdiction for managing the road differs depending on whether it is a national road managed by the national government, a prefectural road or a prefectural road managed by a local government, or a private road. In addition, if a living wild animal causes harm to humans, it may be necessary to notify the police or hunters. There were many report destinations for reporting one sighting information, or if the appropriate report destination was not known, the sighting information might not be transmitted promptly.

Although it is not a system for collecting wildlife sightings, there is a known technology for displaying captured images of wildlife in a specific area on a map. Specifically, for example, the following Patent Document 1 describes an image storage unit that stores a photographed image including organisms including a plurality of animals and plants taken at each point, and an organism that stores biological information about the plurality of organisms. A storage unit including an information storage unit, an image output unit that acquires and outputs a captured image at a point specified by the user from the image storage unit, and an image of a living organism specified by the user in the captured image is analyzed and its features. Disclosed a biological information providing device including a feature extracting unit for extracting a feature and an information output section for extracting and outputting biological information corresponding to the feature from a biological information storage section based on the feature extracted by the feature extracting section. do. Further, the biological information providing device and the user terminal capable of communicating with the biological information providing device via a network line are provided, so that the user terminal can specify the area and the photographed image of the organism in the photographed image. Discloses a biological information providing system having an operation unit of the above, a notification unit for displaying a photographed image output by an image output unit, and a notification unit for notifying a user of biological information output by the information output unit.

However, the biological information providing device and the biological information providing system disclosed in Patent Document 1 create a database of captured images taken in advance for each point using an in-vehicle camera or the like, and capture images of the points on the map selected by the user. Is displayed on a map, and is not a system for efficiently collecting and sharing sighting information of wild animals.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2015-80154

It is an object of the present invention to provide a system used for efficiently collecting and utilizing sighting information of wild animals.

One aspect of the present invention is to provide wildlife sightings, including a server device accessible via the Internet from a client terminal used by a poster of wildlife sightings and a user terminal used by a user of the system. It is a wild animal sighting information collection system for collecting, and the server device is a posting reception unit and a client terminal or a user that accepts posting of wild animal sighting information including information on sightings and animal species posted from the client terminal. It is equipped with a web server including a display control unit that outputs the display of sighting information in response to a request from the terminal, and a sighting information database generated by accumulating the sighting information received by the posting reception unit. A database operation is executed on the sighting information database in response to a request from the client terminal or user terminal, and the display control unit displays the execution result of the database operation output in response to the request on the client terminal or user terminal. It is a wild animal sighting information collection system. According to such a wildlife sighting information gathering system, witness information such as witness information of wandering wild animals, witness information of dead bodies, witness information of wildlife accidents, witness information of human damage caused by wild animals, etc. are witnessed. A person posts to the server device from the client terminal, and the post is accumulated in the sighting information database of the server device to generate a database, so that the sighting information about wild animals can be centrally collected and shared promptly. .. In addition, by executing database operations in the sighting information database, for example, it is possible to specify and filter animal species, wildlife crop damage, traffic accidents, etc., sighting point range, sighting date and time range, etc. , Only necessary sighting information can be filtered, and items can be extracted and analyzed, for example, only specific animal species, only traffic accidents, and only crop damage.

It also includes a map database that stores map data, and the display control unit posts a pin (marker) at the sighting point on the map acquired from the map database and displays it on the client terminal or user terminal. However, it is preferable because the user or the witness can intuitively grasp the distribution of the sighting information of the wild animal including the information of the sighting point and the animal species.

The web server also includes an email sender that sends emails, which automatically sends emails to specific destination addresses if each user meets the preset witness information selection criteria. By executing, the sighting information can be promptly transmitted by sending an e-mail to an appropriate person with preset conditions, so the person in charge of processing and countermeasures can promptly take necessary measures. Can be made.

Further, the sighting information includes more detailed information by further including at least one kind of information selected from the sighting date and time, the number of individuals, the state of the witnessed animal, the image information, the video information, and the audio information. It is preferable because it can generate.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a system used for efficiently collecting and utilizing sighting information of wild animals.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a wildlife sighting information collection system of the embodiment. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the server device. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for the poster to post the sighting information. FIG. 4 shows an example of a screen display for searching a wildlife sighting area displayed on the screen of a client terminal in order to accept posting of sighting information. FIG. 5 shows an example of a screen display when inputting a wildlife sighting point from the screen of a client terminal. FIG. 6 shows an example of a screen display when inputting wildlife sighting information from the screen of a client terminal. FIG. 7 shows an example of a sighting information database generated by posting sighting information. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure for utilizing the execution result of the operation of the sighting information database at the request of the user. FIG. 9 shows an example of the screen display of the login screen shown when the wildlife sighting information collection system is accessed from the user terminal. FIG. 10 shows an example of screen display of the menu selection screen of the database operation screen, which is shown when the user terminal logs in to the wildlife sighting information collection system. FIG. 11 shows an example of the display of the login user management screen displayed when "3. Login user management" is selected on the database operation screen. FIG. 12 shows an example of the display of the witness information screen for setting and filtering a predetermined condition from a large number of witness information, which is displayed when the “50. Witness information” menu is selected on the database operation screen. .. FIG. 13 is an example of the screen display when the filter condition of “animal species bear” is set and filtered from a large number of sightings displayed when the “50. Witness information” menu is selected on the database operation screen. Is shown. FIG. 14 shows an example of the display of the wildlife sighting information screen posted on the map, which is displayed when the “51. User map” menu is selected on the database operation screen. FIG. 15 shows an example of a screen display when setting a selection condition for an item of sighting information set by the user and setting an e-mail address of a destination to send an e-mail when the selection condition is matched. FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a procedure for sending an e-mail of sighting information from a poster.

An embodiment of the wildlife sighting information collection system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the wildlife sighting information collection system 100 of the present embodiment.

In FIG. 1, 10 is a client terminal for use by a poster (client) who posts wildlife sighting information, and 20 (20a, 20b, 20c) is a person (user) who uses the wildlife sighting information collection system 100. Is a user terminal used by. Further, 25a and 25b are mail receiving terminals in which different mail addresses are set. The client terminal 10, the user terminal 20, and the mail receiving terminals 25a and 25b may be the same terminal.

As shown in FIG. 1, the wildlife sighting information collection system 100 hierarchically assigns a predetermined URL to a client terminal 10 used by a person who posts wildlife sighting information, a user terminal 20 used by a user who uses the system, and a predetermined URL. The assigned server device 30 is a system accessiblely connected via the Internet. Further, in the present embodiment, the server device 30 is connected to the map database server 70 including the map database 71 via the Internet.

The server device 30 is a server device including a web server 40 for storing a web application, a sighting information database server 50 for storing a sighting information database 51, and a communication unit 60. URLs are hierarchically assigned to the server device 30 and connected to the Internet communication network.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the server device 30. The server device 30 of the present embodiment has an auxiliary storage device 1, a memory device 2, an arithmetic processing device 3, an interface device 4, and an input device 5 connected to each other by a bus B. Further, if necessary, an output device such as a display device may be provided. A Web application for operating the web server 40 of the server device 30 and a database application for operating the sighting information database server 50 are installed in the auxiliary storage device 1, and further, the posting information is accumulated and the sighting information database is stored. A data file constituting the 51 and other necessary data files are stored. The memory device 2 reads and stores the program of each application from the auxiliary storage device 1 when the server device 30 is started. The arithmetic processing unit 3 causes the memory device 2 to execute the program of each application read. The interface device 4 includes a modem, a LAN card, a LAN port, and the like, and constitutes a communication unit 60 for connecting to an Internet line. The input device 5 is, for example, a pointing device, a keyboard, or the like, and is used for inputting various signals.

Referring to FIG. 1, the web server 40 includes a server control unit 41, a display control unit 42, a post reception unit 43, a data output unit 44, and a mail transmission unit 45.

The server control unit 41 is composed of a program module that controls the overall operation of the web server 40 including the display control unit 42, the post reception unit 43, the data output unit 44, and the mail transmission unit 45.

Further, the display control unit 42 is extracted from the screen display including the UI used for posting the sighting information on the screens of the displays (output devices) of the client terminal 10 and the user terminal 20 and the sighting information database described later. Consists of a program module that realizes a screen display that displays sighting information by posting a pin (marker) at the sighting point on the map of the sighting area selected from the map database, and a function that executes display output to other screens. Will be done.

Further, the posting receiving unit 43 is configured by a program module that realizes a function of receiving the posting of sighting information from the client terminal 10 and transmitting the sighting information to the sighting information database server 50 to generate the sighting information database 51.

Further, the data output unit 44 is a program module that realizes a function of receiving a request from the client terminal 10 or the user terminal 20, receiving necessary sighting information data from the sighting information database 51, and outputting the data according to the request. It is composed of.

In addition, the mail sending unit 45 has a mail server function for sending an e-mail (hereinafter, also simply referred to as an e-mail) to a designated e-mail address, and automatically sends the satisfaction of preset selection conditions for sighting information. It is managed as an e-mail selection condition, and is composed of a program module that realizes a function to automatically send an e-mail to a preset e-mail address when the posted sighting information satisfies the automatic e-mail selection condition.

Further, the sighting information database server 50 is configured by a program module that realizes a server function for storing various data so that database operations can be executed. In the present embodiment, the witness information database 51 for accumulating the witness information data of wild animals received by the submission reception unit 43 is provided.

The sighting information database 51 stores the sighting information received from the client terminal 10 by the posting receiving unit 43 so that the database can be operated. Specifically, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, the sighting date and time, the sighting area, the sighting point (latitude, longitude), the animal species, the state of the witnessed animal, other additional information, images, video files, etc. are filtered by items. It is a database that has been accumulated as much as possible.

The server device 30 is connected to the map database server 70 including the map database 71 via the Internet. The map database server 70 is not particularly limited as long as it is a map database server that provides commercial or non-commercial map data. Specific examples of the map database server include OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Google Maps (Google Maps). Further, in the present embodiment, an example of accessing the map database server via the Internet is illustrated, but a map database server that can be accessed from the server device 30 without going through the Internet may be used.

The map database 71 stores map data of various parts of the country, and provides map data of an area instructed by the client terminal 10 or the user terminal 20 in response to a request from the server device 30. The map data is general map data including the display of roads, buildings, and the like.

The mail sending unit 45 includes a mail sending server that sends a mail to a destination mail address. When the sighting information is posted, the mail transmission unit 45 determines whether or not the posted sighting information satisfies the selection condition, and when the selection condition is satisfied, the text data, the image data, including the sighting information, It is set to automatically create an e-mail containing a URL link for displaying sighting information, etc., and automatically send it to the e-mail address of the specified destination linked to the selection condition. The specific selection condition I is associated with the email address aaa@bbb.com ", the specific selection condition II is associated with the email address" bbb@aaa.com ", and when the sighting information satisfies the selection condition I, the email address" aaa@bbb.com "is set to automatically send an email to the email address" bbb@aaa.com "when the sighting information satisfies the selection condition II.

Further, the communication unit 60 controls communication that is always connected to the Internet line, and controls information communication with the client terminal 10, the user terminal 20, or the map database server 70 via the Internet.

The client terminal 10 is for inputting information into an auxiliary storage device, a memory device, an arithmetic processing device, and an auxiliary storage device in which an Internet browser application that can access a web server specified by a predetermined URL via the Internet is installed. A mobile information terminal such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, a mobile phone, or a personal computer having an input device such as a touch panel, a keyboard, or a mouse, a display (output device) for displaying various information as an image, and a communication interface device. Can be mentioned. Further, it preferably has a function of sending and receiving e-mail, a camera function and a recording function for photographing wild animals, a GPS data receiving function, and the like. Further, as the user terminal 20, information is input to an auxiliary storage device, a memory device, an arithmetic processing device, and an auxiliary storage device in which an Internet browser application that can access a web server specified by a predetermined URL via the Internet is installed. A smartphone having an input device such as a touch panel, a keyboard, a mouse, etc., a display (output device) for displaying various information as an image, and a communication interface device, preferably having an e-mail transmission / reception function. Examples include mobile information terminals such as tablet terminals and mobile phones, and personal computers. Further, examples of the mail receiving terminal include a mobile information terminal and a personal computer having a mail receiving function. The client terminal 10 is a terminal for posting sighting information, and the user terminal 20 is a terminal for using sighting information and a terminal for receiving mail from a mail receiving terminal. It may be used as a client terminal or a mail receiving terminal, or the client terminal may be used as a user terminal or a mail receiving terminal.

Next, the operation procedure of the wildlife sighting information collection system 100 will be described with reference to the flowchart. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure when the poster accesses the server device 30 from the client terminal 10 and posts the sighting information. Each client terminal 10 can access the posting receiving unit 43 of the server device 30 by designating the URL assigned to the posting receiving unit 43.

When the poster posts the sighting information to the wildlife sighting information collection system 100, the poster specifies the URL assigned to the posting reception unit 43 from the Internet browser installed on the client terminal 10 owned by the poster, and the posting reception unit Access 43 (step S1).

When the posting reception unit 43 is accessed from the client terminal 10, the server control unit 41 tells the display control unit 42 on the screen of the display of the client terminal 10, for example, "wild animal sighting information" as shown in FIG. The title of "Collecting system witness area search", the explanation of the input method of "Select a prefecture / city and click or tap" Map display "", and select the prefecture and its city / ward / town / village. Instruct to display a screen that includes a pull-down menu for. Further, the server control unit 41 gives a command to the posting reception unit 43 to store the input information of the sighting information from the client terminal 10.

The contributor selects the prefecture of the sighting area from the pull-down menu of the screen displayed on the display of the client terminal 10, and further selects the city / ward / town / village including the sighting area from the pull-down menu of the city / ward / town / village of the selected prefecture. select. Then, the poster selects the city, ward, town, or village of the sighting area on the screen of the client terminal 10, and then clicks or taps the icon button of "Map display" to select the sighting area, and the selection of the sighting area is confirmed. (Step S2). FIG. 4 shows an example in which "Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture" is selected as the sighting area.

When the input of the sighting area is confirmed from the client terminal 10 in step S2, the server control unit 41 acquires the map data including the selected sighting area from the map database 71 of the map database server 70 connected to the Internet. The display control unit 42 is instructed to display a map of the sighting area on the screen of the client terminal 10. Specifically, for example, as shown in Fig. 5, a title such as "Map of Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture" and an input such as "Click (or tap) the spot you witnessed to register the sighting information". An explanation of the method and an instruction to display a map near Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture are instructed (step S3).

The contributor searches for a wildlife sighting point from the map of the selected sighting area displayed on the screen of the display of the client terminal 10, and inputs the sighting point from the input device of the client terminal 10. Specifically, for example, when the client terminal 10 is a mobile information terminal such as a smartphone equipped with a touch panel as an input device, witnessing is performed by tapping a portion corresponding to the sighting point on the map displayed on the screen of the display. The point is entered. Further, when the client terminal 10 is a mobile information terminal provided with a touch panel, it may be configured so that the map can be enlarged / reduced by pinching out or pinching in the screen displayed on the display. Further, when the multi-touch in which two fingers are touched to the screen at the same time is detected, the map may be moved. The server control unit 41 instructs the display control unit 42 to display the map for which the change instruction has been received by operating the touch panel. In this way, the poster searches for the sighting point from the map of the selected sighting area, and inputs the sighting point from the input device of the client terminal 10. Instead of manually inputting the sighting point, the current location information (latitude, longitude) such as the GPS data receiving function implemented in the client terminal 10 may be directly input without searching for the sighting point from the map of the sighting area. .. The sighting point is input in this way (step S4).

When the sighting point is input in step S4, the server control unit 41 instructs the display control unit 42 to display a screen requesting input of the sighting information at the sighting point. The display control unit 42 receives a command from the server control unit 41 and causes the display of the client terminal 10 to display a screen display including a UI including a form for inputting sighting information. Specifically, the display control unit 42 displays, for example, a modal window of "register witness information" as shown in FIG. In the modal window shown in FIG. 6, the "witness date and time" input menu for specifying the witness date and time, the "witness animal type" pull-down menu for selecting the type of witnessed animal, and the situation of the wild animal at the time of witnessing are displayed. A "Status" pull-down menu to select and a "Comment" text entry column for entering other additional information are displayed. In addition, when a witnessed image or video is taken, an icon button of "with image" for posting the image or video as a file is displayed. When you select the "with image" icon button, a modal window for posting image files is also displayed. The poster can select and post the image file to be posted. In this way, the contributor inputs the sighting information of the wild animal witnessed at the sighting point from the input device of the client terminal 10 according to the items displayed in the modal window (step S5).

The items included in the sighting information include, for example, the following items. (1) Witness date and time information, (2) Animal species information such as wild boar, bear, deer, fox, rabbit, raccoon dog, raccoon, crow, cat, dog, unknown, (3) Excluding road crossing, roadkill, and roadkill Situation information such as carcasses, injuries, damage to agricultural crops, vandalism, etc., (4) additional information such as adults, children, groups of about 100 cm, groups of about 5 animals, raccoons, etc., which are arbitrarily entered as texts can be mentioned. In addition, when an image or video is taken, the image or video selection screen is displayed by selecting the "with image" icon button, and by selecting the shot image or video, they are included in the sighting information. Posted with it included.

Then, the sighting information input in step S5 is registered in the sighting information database 51. Specifically, the poster inputs the sighting information from the input device of the client terminal 10 into the modal window shown in FIG. 6, and then clicks or taps the "Register with this content" icon button to select. do. When the witness information is registered, the posting reception unit 43 sends the registered witness information to the witness information database server 50, and orders the witness information database 51 to store the witness information (step S6). In this way, the process of posting sighting information is completed.

By such a series of posting processes, the witness information posted in the witness information database 51 is registered. Then, a large number of sightings posted by a large number of contributors are sequentially registered in the sighting information database 51. By accumulating the sighting information posted in this way, a sighting information database including a large amount of sighting information data as shown in FIG. 7 is generated.

Next, a procedure when a user of the wildlife sighting information collection system 100 accesses the server device 30 from the user terminal 20 and uses the sighting information database 51 including the sighting information data will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. do.

The user who uses the wildlife sighting information specifies the URL assigned to the data output unit 44 of the web server 40 of the wildlife sighting information collection system 100 to the Internet browser installed in the possessed user terminal 20, and data. Access the output unit 44 (step S11).

When the user terminal 20 specifies and accesses the URL of the data output unit 44, the server control unit 41 tells the display control unit 42 on the screen of the display of the user terminal 20, for example, " It is instructed to display the title of "Wild Animal Witness Information Collection System" and the login screen for entering the user ID and password. The user inputs a user ID and a password assigned in advance from the login screen displayed on the display of the user terminal 20. The user is assigned a user ID and a password to which the access authority is given. Further, the user is set to the area where the witness information associated with the user ID needs to be output. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the user has set "Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture" as a region. The server control unit 41 instructs the data output unit 44 to log the user into the data output unit 44 when the user ID and password input from the user terminal 20 match the user ID and password assigned in advance. (Step S12).

In step S12, when the user logs in to the data output unit 44, the server control unit 41 causes the display control unit 42 to select a method of using wildlife sighting information on the display screen of the user terminal 20. Command to display the screen including the UI of. Specifically, for example, as shown in FIG. 10, a menu number is displayed along with a display of user information such as "user ID, password, login name" and a display of "Enter the menu number and press the enter key." An input field is displayed. Further, as the menu number, for example, "3. Login user management", "50. Witness information", "51. User map", "100. Automatic mail transmission setting", etc., for each menu corresponding to the number. A description is displayed.

The user can select from each menu such as "3. Login user management", "50. Witness information", "51. User map", "100. Automatic mail transmission setting" displayed on the display screen of the user terminal 20. , Select the target menu and enter the number in the menu number input field (step S13).

Here, to explain the contents of each menu, the "3. Login user management" menu is a screen for displaying or setting information related to the access authority of the logged-in user and the like. Further, the "50. Witness information" menu is a menu for reading and displaying the witness information of the area selected by the user from the witness information database 51, and filtering the witness information by a predetermined item to extract data. Further, the "51. User map" menu is a menu for reading the sighting information of the area selected by the user or the sighting information generated by filtering the data and extracting the data and displaying it on the map. In addition, the "100. Automatic mail transmission setting" menu is a menu that links the selection conditions of sighting information set by the user to the mail address of a specific destination and sets the conditions for automatically sending mail to that mail address. Is.

When the user inputs "3. Login user management" in the menu number input field in step S13, the server control unit 41 displays the display control unit 42 on the screen of the user terminal 20, for example, FIG. 11. It is instructed to display or set a screen that displays or sets the access authority of the logged-in user and the area that requires the sighting information preset by the logged-in user as shown in. On this screen, the user can display or set information related to the access authority of the logged-in user and the like.

When the user inputs "50. Witness information" in the menu number input field in step S13, the server control unit 41 inputs the witness information of the witness area set by the user from the witness information database 51 to the data output unit 44. Instructed to read, and further, the display control unit 42 is displayed on the screen of the display of the user terminal 20, for example, as shown in FIG. 12, the selected sighting area (“Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture” in this embodiment). ) Is ordered to display the list of posted sighting information (step S14). In the "50. Witness information" menu shown in FIG. 12, the sighting point (latitude and longitude), the date and time of sighting, the animal species, the state, the "image" icon, and the "selection" check box are displayed.

Further, as shown in FIG. 12, in the "50. Witness information" menu, an input field for filtering a large number of displayed witness information by each item is provided. Specifically, the witness date range input field for filtering by the witness date and time range, the "animal species" pull-down menu for filtering by animal species, the "state" pull-down menu for filtering by "state", Input boxes for "remarks search words" for text search in the "remarks" field are arranged.

The login user can filter the sighting information by setting the filtering condition of each item by the filtering function in the "50. Witness information" menu. Further, regardless of the filtering function, it is possible to arbitrarily select and filter only the rows for which the user has entered a check in the selection check box. In this way, the conditions required by the user can be set, and only the filtered data can be displayed in a filtered manner and output (step S15). FIG. 13 shows an example of filtering display when filtering by “witness date / time 2018-11-1 to 2018-11-15” and “bear”, for example. In FIG. 13, it is displayed that the sighting information of 6 bears was hit under the above filtering conditions. In this way, the output process of filtering and displaying the sighting information is completed.

In addition, on the screen of the "50. Witness information" menu, when the related witness information is reported or the information is incorrect, the edit screen is displayed by pressing the "edit button" and added to the witness information. It is also possible to edit by adding or modifying the information of. In addition, the sighting information or the sighting information after filtering may be output by posting a pin (marker) at the sighting point on the map so that it can be displayed, or by transferring the data to general-purpose spreadsheet software and outputting it. Further, the sighting information can be used efficiently.

Further, when the user inputs "51. User map" in the menu number input field in step S13, the server control unit 41 witnesses the witness area set by the user from the witness information database 51 to the data output unit 44. Instructed to read the information, and further, the display control unit 42 is displayed on the screen of the display of the user terminal 20, for example, as shown in FIG. 14, the area selected by the user (in this embodiment, "Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture"). It is instructed to post a pin based on the longitude and latitude on the map near "Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture" obtained from the map data server 71 and display the posted sighting information in "City") in a superimposed manner (step). S16). The user can grasp the distribution of sighting information by referring to the pins (markers) posted on the map. Further, the sighting information may be the sighting information filtered by referring to the sighting information data filtered in step S15. Further, for example, the pins may be displayed in different colors, such as red for bears and green for raccoon dogs. Further, for example, when the user puts the cursor on the pin, the sighting information of the pin may be popped up and displayed.

Further, when the user inputs "100. Automatic mail transmission setting" in the menu number input field in step S13, the server control unit 41 sends the display control unit 42 to the display screen of the user terminal 20, for example. , Command to display the "automatically sent mail selection condition setting" as shown in FIG. On the "automatically sent mail selection condition setting" screen shown in FIG. 15, the title of "automatically sent mail selection condition setting", the input screen of "email address", "mail title", and "mail body", and the setting conditions are set. Check boxes for setting are arranged. When the witness information is posted, the user sets the e-mail address of the destination to automatically send the e-mail according to the selection condition of the witness information (step S17).

Specifically, for example, if you want to send witness information about a carcass of a wild animal that needs cleaning to the email receiving terminal 25a owned by the cleaning staff, the cleaning staff's email address "aaa @ bbb." Set "com", set "mail title" to "notification of sighting of dead body", and set "mail body" to "" yyyy "year" mm "month" dd "day" hh "hour" mm "minute below Witness information of the corpse of "eee" was posted at the point of. " "yyyy" indicates the year, "mm" indicates the month, "dd" indicates the day, "hh" indicates the hour, "mm" indicates the minute, and "eee" indicates the animal species. Refer to the database for these items. Argument to be specified. Then, as a selection condition, for example, all the check boxes of "animal species" are checked, and the check boxes of "roadkill" and "other death" of "state" are checked. By setting the selection conditions for automatically sent e-mails in this way, when witness information of "roadkill" and "other deaths" of animals that are required to be cleaned is posted, the e-mail receiving terminal possessed by the cleaning staff. The details of the information will be promptly notified to the email address of 25a. In addition, a URL for displaying a screen for posting information for referring to detailed information may be attached to the e-mail.

Also, for example, if you want to send the sighting information of wild animals on the expressway to the email receiving terminal 25b owned by the expressway administrator, the expressway administrator's email address "bbb @ aaa" should be added to the "email address". Set ".com", set "Email title" to "Notification of animal sightings on the highway", and set "Email body" to "" yyyy "year" mm "month" dd "day" hh "hour. Witness information of the dead body of "eee" was posted at the following points in "mm" minutes. " Check and check the "Highway sighting" check box in "Status". By setting the selection conditions for automatically sent emails in this way, when there is a posting of sighting information of an animal that is required to ensure the safety of the expressway, the email address of the email receiving terminal 25b owned by the expressway administrator. Will be notified promptly of the details of the information. Further, it is preferable to attach a URL for displaying a screen for posting map information to the e-mail because it is possible to easily grasp the infested area of the animal.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a procedure for sending an e-mail. As shown in FIG. 16, the posting reception unit 43 waits for new sighting information to be posted (S18). Then, when the posting receiving unit 43 accepts the posting of new sighting information, the server control unit 41 instructs the posting receiving unit 43 to send the received sighting information to the mail transmitting unit 45.

The mail transmission unit 45 determines whether or not the sighting information received from the server control unit 41 satisfies the preset automatic transmission mail selection condition (S19). Specifically, when the received sighting information matches the automatic transmission email selection condition (Yes), an email containing preset information is automatically transmitted to the email address associated with the automatic transmission email selection condition. (S20). Then, by the automatic transmission of the mail, the user of the mail receiving terminal can promptly know that the sighting information satisfying the automatic transmission mail selection condition has been notified by receiving the mail. On the other hand, if the received sighting information does not match the automatic transmission mail selection condition (No), the mail is not sent. Then, again, the posting reception unit 43 waits for new sighting information to be posted (S18).

According to such a system, for example, witness information about a dead wild animal that needs cleaning can be selectively and automatically sent to the e-mail address of the user terminal owned by the cleaning staff, and to a person such as a bear. Harmful wildlife wandering sightings are selectively automatically sent to the email address of the user terminal owned by the police officer, and wildlife sightings on the road are road management in a specific area. By selectively and automatically sending to the e-mail address of the user terminal owned by the person in charge, it is possible to appropriately report only the necessary sighting information to the necessary responders.

The embodiment of the wildlife sighting information collection system according to the present invention has been described above. The embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and can be appropriately modified without departing from the spirit of the invention.

1 Auxiliary storage device 2 Memory device 3 Arithmetic processing device 4 Interface device 5 Input device 10 Client terminal 20 (20a to 20c) User terminal 30 Server device 40 Web server 41 Server control unit 42 Display control unit 43 Post reception unit 44 Data output unit 45 Mail transmission unit 50 Witness information database server 51 Witness information database 52 Map database 60 Communication unit 70 Map database server 71 Map database 100 Wild animal sighting information collection system

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Wildlife sightings for collecting wildlife sightings, equipped with a server device accessible via the Internet from client terminals used by posters of wildlife sightings and user terminals used by system users. It is an information gathering system
The server device responds to a request from the client terminal or the user terminal and a posting receiving unit that accepts posting of wild animal sighting information including information on the sighting point and animal species posted from the client terminal. A web server including a display control unit that outputs the display of the sighting information, a mail transmission unit that transmits an e-mail, and the like.
A witness information database generated by accumulating the witness information received by the post reception unit is provided.
A database operation is executed on the sighting information database in response to a request from the client terminal or the user terminal, and the display control unit outputs the execution result of the database operation in response to the request to the client. Display on the terminal or the user terminal
Wildlife sighting information collection, characterized in that the mail transmitting unit automatically sends the e-mail to a specific destination address when the selection condition of the witness information preset by each user is matched. system. It also contains a map database to store map data, including
The wild animal according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit posts a pin (marker) at the sighting point on the map acquired from the map database and displays the execution result on the client terminal or the user terminal. Witness information gathering system. The wildlife sighting information according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising at least one type of information selected from the sighting date and time, the number of individuals, the state of the witnessed animal, image information, video information, and audio information. Collection system.

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