In December of 2014, Japan’s National Congress of Industrial Heritage, in collaboration with the Japanese government, nominated the Sogi Power Plant to the CyArk’s 500 Challenge acknowledging the importance of the Sogi Power Plant and its contribution to our shared global heritage.

As part of recognizing the role the Sogi Power Plant has played in Japan’s cultural transformation, CyArk has partnered with the geopositioning manufacturer, Topcon and Japan’s National Congress of Industrial Heritage to document this unique site. For this project, the team employed a range of new technologies including unmanned air vehicles to photograph details of the terrain, mobile scanning to document the broader environment, and terrestrial scanners to capture the details and condition of the power plant. The data captured will contribute to the on-going efforts towards monitoring and long-term conservational planning of the site.