India: This is how ISRO will provide early warnings for cyclones, floods, rain, landslides and other natural calamities

Source(s): International Business Times Inc.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has taken a number of steps by which it can now provide early warnings for cyclones, floods, rain, landslides and other natural calamities across the country, which should help save a lot of lives and property, besides triggering timely and efficient governmental response to ensure that the areas and people affected recover from them quickly.

Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space Dr Jitendra Singh, in a written reply to a question in the lok Sabha on Wednesday, said: "ISRO is working on systems to forecast the natural disasters that could be used as input by states and disaster management agencies." He then went on to explain how this would work: 

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