Mandi: Calibration lab set up to issue accurate weather forecast

Mandi: A calibration laboratory set up by the Defense Geoinformatics Research Establishment at its research center in Manali is set to play a vital role in issuing accurate forecasts and warnings of natural disasters related to floods, avalanches and glaciers in Northeast India from Manali to Siachen. Is.

The laboratory was inaugurated last week by Shailendra V Gade, Director General and Distinguished Scientist, Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), in the presence of Pramod Kumar Satyavali, Outstanding Scientist and Director, Defense Geo-informatics Research Establishment (DGRE). Manali, and Dr. Neeraj Sharma, project director of calibration.

Gade said the calibration laboratory was a facility to calibrate electronic sensors to collect data related to snow avalanches and other weather conditions.

“With the help of this laboratory, we will be able to maintain the accuracy and quality of the data collected by calibrating snow and weather-related sensors at regular intervals or as per requirement,” said Neeraj Sharma, project director of the laboratory. “This will certainly give us a qualitative return in issuing better and accurate forecasts and warnings of natural disasters related to floods, avalanches and glaciers.”

He said this was India’s first laboratory for snow avalanche sensors.

Ashwini Kumar Acharya, in-charge of this lab, said that the sensors of many automatic weather stations installed from Siachen Glacier to the North-East Indian border Himalayas will be calibrated here.