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ES&S
wins contract for X-band satellite systems for the Bureau of
Meteorology |
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12
Feb 2007 |
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Environmental
Systems & Services Pty Ltd (ES&S) is pleased to announce
a $1.6 million contract with the Bureau of Meteorology for new high-tech X-band
weather satellite systems. These comprise three new ground stations and associated
software for data processing and
display. They will be located in Darwin, Melbourne
and Casey Base in the Antarctic.
Weather and climate services throughout Australia and the Antarctic will benefit
from the new systems which will be used by the Bureau to monitor and forecast
severe weather such as tropical cyclones and for special applications such as
bushfires, droughts and climate change.
Remote sensing from space is becoming a critically important input to the forecasting
and monitoring process. These new systems will give the Bureau state-of-the-art
tools and data.
ES&S, based in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, has supplied weather radar
and satellite systems to the Bureau for 20 years and exported systems to more
than a dozen countries in Asia and the Pacific.
The development of these new X-band systems was assisted by a $2.25 million Research
and Development START Grant awarded to ES&S by the Australian Government
in 2002. Following the successful R&D project, the new systems have been
deployed over the last two years in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and
New Zealand. |
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