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SRM University's 2-kg copter:
15 students from Chennai based SRM University has developed a 2-kg copter, an 'autonomous weather monitoring copter,' a multi-rotor aerial vehicle that will help study weather.
The copter can be used as an substitute to weather balloons that are released at several places in the country to measure temperature, pressure and humidity at various altitudes in the atmosphere, according to the students.
Dr, Y.E.A. Raj, deputy director general of meteorology, Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai said, "Balloons have been our reasonable source of weather data for a very long time. The copter is a technological development and the students are trying to use it for a research project. When the copter can reach its destined 2km height, then it would be crucial for planetary boundary layer study," reports Deccan Chronicle
J. Sathyanarayanan, one of the team leaders in the project exclaimed, “the copter could replace balloons in the future for collecting weather data.” "We spent INR 2 lakh - our university funded us - to build this copter. A balloon is much cheaper as its only valuable component is the imported radiosonde that costs INR 10,000. But the copter can be reused, the balloon cannot," he added.
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