CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) has successfully conducted a drone based magnetic survey in the Ladakh region in September last year for the first time for an area of about 45 sq.km and the data is currently being analysed by the scientists here, it was disclosed on Monday.
The premier scientific institute has used a five kilo payload capacity drone carrying an important sensor to record the data for sub-surface level area. It was also actually looking for a high payload capacity of about 500 kg for carrying sophisticated cameras and instruments, also to be developed by the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) but there has been a delay in making the big drone.
Former Secretary of Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) P.S. Goel told a gathering of scientists at the institute on the inaugural day of the ‘One Week – One Lab’ programme that several projects have been tied up with the higher payload drone, but pointed out that there are constraints as a government organisation.
