{"id":154532,"date":"2021-12-18T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=154532"},"modified":"2021-12-18T19:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T14:07:09","slug":"vihangam-remotely-piloted-aircraft-system-rpas-at-mahanadi-coalfields-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vihangam-remotely-piloted-aircraft-system-rpas-at-mahanadi-coalfields-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018VIHANGAM\u2019- Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coal India Limited had recently inaugurated the \u2018VIHANGAM\u2019 system at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is VIHANGAM?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VIHANGAM is an I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nternet-based system integrated with a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system consists of a Ground Control Station (GCS), an RPAS, internet lease line of 40 Mbps and VIHANGAM portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system enables<strong> real-time transmission of aerial video<\/strong> of mining activities from mines to internet platforms, which can be accessed through VIHANGAM portal by authorized personnel only having ID and password.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RPAS is considered as one of the subset of t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threats-posed-by-uavs\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of a remotely piloted aircraft, its associated remote pilot station(s), the required command and control links and any other components as specified in the type design.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><b>Note:<\/b> Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) is an unmanned aircraft which is piloted from a remote pilot station.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"border-bg\">\n<h5><strong>About Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>&#8211; <\/strong>A <strong>major coal producing company<\/strong> which is also one of the eight subsidiaries of Coal India Limited. MCL was the <strong>first coal company<\/strong> to introduce environment-friendly Surface Mining technology in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u2018VIHANGAM\u2019- Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited&#8217;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on<b> 17<sup>th<\/sup> Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Coal India Limited had recently inaugurated the \u2018VIHANGAM\u2019 system at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL). What is VIHANGAM? VIHANGAM is an Internet-based system integrated with a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS). The system consists of a Ground Control Station (GCS), an RPAS, internet lease line of 40 Mbps and VIHANGAM portal. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vihangam-remotely-piloted-aircraft-system-rpas-at-mahanadi-coalfields-limited\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018VIHANGAM\u2019- Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-154532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702883491},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}