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The Wide-area Precipitation Data by ISRO

Update by Webadmin 2022-03-28 04:30:13

On 25 March 2022, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been successfully developed the web system called “VEDAS cloud system” to provide the wide-area precipitation data to AFSIS and the ASEAN Member Countries for Rice Growing Outlook report (RGO) activity.

This VEDAS cloud system is the following-up from the fruitful meeting between ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) together with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and ISRO on the 11th November 2021. The meeting confirmed the benefits of trilateral collaboration on the use of satellite-based information for RGO activities, and agreed to continue the collaboration to further with the objective to utilize the earth-observing satellite data for enhancing the food security system in ASEAN regions.

This is the one of the successful cooperation between AFSIS, JAXA, and ISRO since more trainings are currently planned for this near future.


For accessing the wide-area precipitation data, please kindly visit: https://vedas.sac.gov.in/AFSIS

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