KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 (Bernama) -- Earth Networks has completed the Philippines’ first severe weather monitoring and alerting network with associated software services for the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).
PAGASA is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) agency of the the republic.
The technology partnership between PAGASA and Earth Networks is the first of its kind in the Philippines and surrounding regions, powered by a network of total lightning sensors and real-time automatic weather stations for mesoscale monitoring.
Installed and operated together with the Philippine partner, West Point Engineering, the 10-year programme includes real-time lightning detection, on-the-ground weather monitoring, web-based severe weather monitoring and alerting platform, severe weather data and visualisation tools and short-range point forecasts.
Data from the collaboration will be commercially available to public and private industries in the region to improve and inform decision-making around severe weather.
This will further enable a commercial sustainability model for these severe weather monitoring and alerting systems.
Earth Networks has also deployed its first Outdoor Alerting System in the country to provide wide area public alert.
PAGASA is the Philippines’ public weather service provider, issuing typhoon and flood warnings, public weather forecasts, advisories, meteorological, astronomical, climatological products and other specialised services.
Newly-expanded in the Philippines, Earth Networks is the world’s most advanced lightning network technology, featuring comprehensive monitoring of both in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning.
-- BERNAMA
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