Indian Navy upgrades ATC meteorological equipment

Neelam Mathews, Delhi

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The Indian Navy (IN) has inaugurated the first of nine Integrated Automatic Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) installations, mainly using technology from Vaisala, under a contract worth an undisclosed amount.

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IAAMS is shown to Admiral Sunil Lamba (second from left), Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy. (Indian Navy)

Indian Naval Station Rajali near Chennai is the launch site, and it will serve as a testbed for future IAAMS deployments as the IN seeks to replace manual meteorological observations with automated real-time measurements with a suite of sensors.

IAAMS installations at the other eight bases will be /
................................................more in Janes