Automatic Meteorological Stations

LOK SABHA

ISRO has developed Automatic Weather Stations (AWS), capable of collecting in-situ weather data such as pressure, temperature, humidity, wind and rainfall on an hourly basis, and transmitting the same to a Central Station through INSAT communication satellites. 360 Automatic Weather Stations have been set up so far covering monsoon regions of South India and disaster-prone regions of North East.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Shri Prithviraj Chavan, in the Lok Sabha today. The Minister also informed that the Indo-Australian Workshop on remote sensing was held at Banglore in December 2007 under the aegis of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (AATSE). The workshop recommended joint working between scientists of the two countries in areas including calibration and validation activities; data assimilation in numerical weather prediction models; and hyperspectral data processing and analysis.

Source: Press Inormation Bureau
Date: March 05, 2008