Sounding systems & radiosondes

To help New South Wales Rural Fire Service know the hyperlocal weather conditions of a fire in order to provide firefighters with accurate forecasts of how the fire will behave and move, they procured a Vaisala sounding system that can be easily moved around the state, wherever a fire breaks out.

From harsh environments that include outer space, Vaisala’s products are found collecting and analyzing valuable data. Check out this autosonde installed in Antarctica.

You’ll have to go back to the 1930’s to learn about our interesting origins and this indispensable-to-this-day tool.

Vaisala is selected as an ambassador to work with NOAA and the National Weather Service in building communities that are ready, responsive and resilient to severe weather events.

Although their sounding stations were established and functional, the Meteorological Service was manually conducting soundings. The organization sought to modernize the weather network with an automated sounding solution that would optimize staff resources, freeing them to focus on other tasks.