Sutron Hydrological/Meteorological June 2002 Sales $1,660,000.Business Editors STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2002 Sutron announced today that international and domestic hydrological/meteorological products and services sales for June of 2002 were $1,660,000. "June was great, but we expect the remainder of the year to be even more impressive. This month Sutron is releasing two innovations that benefit weather and water monitoring in a significant way - our National Ocean Service approved Tide Station and our National Fire Danger Rating System The National Fire Danger Rating System Background John J. Keetch, caca a fire researcher in the southeast, wrote: "One of the prime objectives of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) is to provide as accurate a measure as possible of the relativeapproved Remote Automatic Weather Station An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labour or to enable measurements from remote areas. The system may report in near real time via the Argos System and the Global Telecommunications System, or save the ." Dr. Raul McQuivey, President, commented. "Its quite gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to know that Sutrons new Fire Weather technology will be instrumental in fighting the types of fires that are ravaging North America right now. Of course, with the new focus on homeland security, we are also proud that our Tide Stations will play an important role in protecting Americas coastlines." Sutron is a major supplier of real-time environmental remote monitoring and control systems for several Federal Agencies, including the US Geological Survey, the National Ocean Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and , the Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Weather Service. For 27 years Sutron designed and manufactured communications equipment that has been operating unattended in remote, inhospitable places and under the most extreme environmental conditions on the planet. With over 25,000 environmental monitoring stations presently in operation globally, Sutron is a major worldwide supplier of real-time data collection systems that include telemetry telemetry Highly automated communications process by which data are collected from instruments located at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for measurement, monitoring, display, and recording. , hydrometric hy·drom·e·ter n. An instrument used to determine specific gravity, especially a sealed, graduated tube, weighted at one end, that sinks in a fluid to a depth used as a measure of the fluid's specific gravity. sensors, and data management software. www.sutron.com |
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