First it was space. Launching 10 satellites in 1,000 seconds. Now it's the Himalayas. Radars zooming in on a raindrop 500 km away and 2,000 metres high in less than a milli-second.
The radar will not only warn us of a general meltdown, snowfall and rain, but in fact log on each and every drop of melting snow and rain over a range of 500km and tell us how exactly that drop is moving, which direction and at what pace whether it signals good or bad.
On the scanner are the Alakananda, Ganges and Brahmaputra- three of the longest and largest rivers that the country depends on.
The first step has been taken through ISRO's new radar technology to detect even an inkling of a meltdown, two radars will be deployed high in the Himalayas within a year's time.
'We have the latest technology in weather systems at very low cost. It's a great achievement for India and ISRO. We also don't need to worry about technology transfer issues as we have resolved all that with our research', according to a top scientist.
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