GUWAHATI, March 20 -- The Interdepartmental Climate Research Centre (ICRC) at Cotton University (CU) has installed a lightning detection system to understand better severe storms and lightning activities over Assam and rest of the NE region. To prevent lightning-related disasters in this part of the globe regarded as a major theatre of lightning activities, equipment to ascertain their locations are long-felt requirements here.
This device has been developed by the Blitzortung Project based in Germany. ICRC has joined the Blitzortung Project that aims at realising lightning detection and lightning location network of the world using inexpensive receiver sites utilising information technology (IT). This project was started in 2012 by Prof E...