Sutron receives $1.7 million contract from India for flood modeling and coastal zone management

July 30, 2002
Sutron has received a $1.7 million contract from the government of India to perform flood modeling and coastal zone management.

Sterling, Va., July 30, 2002 -- As a result of the devastating cyclones in India in 1996, the International Bank for Redevelopment and the International Development Association granted funds to the Government of Andhra Pradesh to be used to restore India's damaged infrastructure and to implement a hazard management program.

The Andhra Pradesh Hazard Mitigation and Emergency Cyclone Recovery Project (APHMECRP), which evolved from the restoration program, subsequently commissioned the following two studies:
Study A - Watershed and Delta Management including Flood Modeling
Study B - Coastal Zone Management including Modeling of Wind, Rainfall and Storm Surge

Sutron Corporation has been awarded a $1,753,074 contract to provide a total of 78 Rainfall and Water Level Monitoring Stations throughout India's Andhra Pradesh. The hydrological/meteorological system will acquire and transmit real-time data using cutting-edge equipment designed, built, installed and supported by Sutron Corporation.

India was the first developing country in the world to have its own geostationary satellite, INSAT, for continuous weather monitoring of this part of the globe, particularly for cyclone warning. The new weather monitoring system will rely on Sutron's SatLink High Data Rate Transmitter/Logger equipped with INSAT Satellite telemetry and two Earth Receive Ground Stations (Sutron's DDRGS) to transmit real-time data from the remote monitoring stations to the modeling centers. Sutron expects to complete the project by November, 2002.

Sutron is the only company certified by India's prestigious Met department (IMD) to transmit over their INSAT Satellites.

Sutron, a major supplier of real-time environmental remote monitoring and control systems, provides responsive, cost effective solutions for environmental problems all over the world. Their extensive customer list includes many Federal Agencies, including the US Geological Survey, the National Ocean Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Weather Service.

For 27 years Sutron designed and manufactured equipment has operated unattended under the most extreme conditions in remote, inhospitable locales. Sutron's real-time data collection systems, over 25,000 stations in operation globally, include data loggers, a variety of telemetry options, sensors, and data management software.

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