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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: emergency + satellite + response  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

CORRECTING and REPLACING Navajo Satellite Crisis: FCC Action Welcomed
MarketWatch - Aug 2, 2008
This included federal, state and local emergency response agencies, local governments, law enforcement agencies, fire departments and emergency medical ...
Police work to improve emergency procedures
Middletown Press, CT - Aug 2, 2008
But, satellite phones are expensive. Both officials said they will look to the State Department of Homeland Security and to grants to help finance the ...
FlightOps1.com Expands Pilot Communications with Satcom Direct
PR Web (press release), WA - 44 minutes ago
... innovator of satellite voice, fax, and broadband data service solutions for business and general aviation, military, government, emergency response, ...

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Governor Issues Disaster Declaration Ahead of Edouard
KFDM-TV News, Texas -
Rick Perry issued a disaster declaration in response to the imminent threat posed by Tropical Storm Edouard to Bexar, Brazoria, Brazos, Calhoun, Chambers, ...
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Tropical Storm Edouard heads for Texas-La. coast Victoria Advocate
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TerreStar Signs Nationwide Roaming Deal with AT&T
TMCnet -
Satellite communications can offer these sectors enhanced disaster preparedness and emergency response capabilities by providing reliable communications if ...TSTR
Titan Energy Worldwide to Demonstrate Sentry 5000(TM) to Key ...
MarketWatch - Jul 29, 2008
The Sentry 5000(TM), manufactured exclusively by Titan Energy Worldwide, supports emergency power generation, water purification, satellite voice ...OTC:TEWI
Hawaii Prepares to Implement State-Wide Emergency Management System
Business Wire (press release), CA - Jul 30, 2008
HSCD is responsible for State emergency management and homeland security programs and activities. It coordinates emergency response operations among state, ...
Glentel's Satellite Radio Talk Groups Provide Ultimate Lifeline to ...
Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - Jul 9, 2008
Disasters, whether natural or man-made, can cripple public and private telecommunication services, leaving emergency response teams helpless to coordinate a ...TSE:GLN
NASA Solicitation: Emergency Satellite Hardware and Air Time Services
Space Ref (press release) - Jul 19, 2008
Interested firms have until 21 July 2008 12 noon CDST to submit in writing to the identified point of contact, a response to the attached Request for Quote, ...
SPOT LLC. to Debut Award-Winning and Affordable Satellite ...
MarketWatch - Jul 29, 2008
The SPOT Satellite Messenger can also send a distress message to an international emergency response center alerting rescue authorities of the user's GPS ...
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Integrated radio satellite response system and method -
US Patent 5,303,393, 1994 - freepatentsonline.com
... of the transmitter-IF signal in response to the ... the present invention, the radio
satellite network center ... sport reports, travel advisories and emergency alerts ...

Simulation and cost-effectiveness analysis of New York?s emergency ambulance service
ES Savas - Management Science, 1969 - JSTOR
... of the geographic distribution of emergency calls in ... The merits of a proposed satellite
ambulance station ... related performance measures: (1) response time-the ...

Real-Time Loss Estimation as an Emergency Response Decision Support System: The Early Post- … -
RT Eguchi, JD Goltz, HA Seligson, PJ Flores, NC … - Earthquake Spectra, 1997 - resolver.caltech.edu
... Systems and various satellite-based monitoring ... or under consideration as emergency
management resources. ... for earthquake hazard mitigation, response and recovery ...
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Danger warning and emergency response system and method -
JH Lemelson, RD Pedersen - US Patent 6,084,510, 2000 - freepatentsonline.com
... comprises the step of: transmitting the danger warning and emergency response via
a radio link to a pager satellite network and then to the warning device. 36. ...

[PDF] Rapidly-Deployable Broadband Wireless Networks for Disaster and Emergency Response -
SF Midkiff, CW Bostian - Presented at The First IEEE Workshop on Disaster Recovery …, 2002 - cwt.vt.edu
... rapidly-deployable wireless communications system for disaster and emergency response
[1, 2 ... to existing network infrastructure or use a satellite earth station ...

[PDF] Emergency Response in the Wake of the World Trade Center Attack: The Remote Sensing Perspective -
CK Huyck, BJ Adams - MCEER Special Report Series, 2002 - mceer.buffalo.edu
... devices, the current emphasis is on airborne and satellite data with a ... sensing data
are very useful for assessing emergency response requirements, especially ...

An emergency department response to severe acute respiratory syndrome A prototype response to … -
KY Tham - Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
... e-mail was circulated to alert emergency department (ED ... On March 17, in response
to the surge in ... SARS patients during the weekend, a satellite radiology service ...

Improving access to diagnostics: an evaluation of a satellite laboratory service in the emergency … -
P Leman, D Guthrie, R Simpson, F Little - British Medical Journal, 2004 - emj.bmj.com
... medical and nursing staff in the emergency department, for ... suite of tests in the
satellite laboratory. ... journey rather than providing a standard response to the ...

Risk Assessment, Emergency Preparedness and Response to Hazards: The Case of the 1997 Red River … -
C Emdad Haque - Natural Hazards, 2000 - Springer
... be a benchmark for fu- ture flood preparedness and response. ... EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
IN CANADA ... 1997 extent of water identified by Radarsat Satellite Image date ...

[PDF] 3D Geo-information in emergency response: a framework
S Zlatanova, D Holweg - Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Mobile …, 2004 - gdmc.nl
... fits the high efforts of emergency management ? especially ... Area of iQuery Type of
response (text, image ... affects) or problems with satellite configurations. ...

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Faster and better emergency response through satellite telecoms

 9 May 2007
When emergency teams are well informed and governments can coordinate their efforts, lives and property can be saved. The Health Early Warning System, a project supported by ESA, is intended to bring this benefit to Europe.
 
Extreme natural phenomena like tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes have featured prominently in the news. So, too, has the rapid spread of new diseases such as SARS and avian flu. By identifying and mapping occurrences of these problems sooner, agencies can relieve suffering more quickly and contain a situation more efficiently. That is why ESA is supporting the Health Early Warning System (HEWS), which will improve the performance of emergency service end-users.
 
HEWS offers these users a wider, real-time perspective of events and how to manage them. It integrates knowledge of a particular threat or disease and brings it to remote areas, even if they are in an extreme state of disorder. It helps with logistical support and reduces the need to carry large amounts of heavy equipment to trouble spots.

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A pan-European solution
 
HEWS works by setting up a communication network via satellite to survey and monitor risk indicators. It allows communication between teams in the field and with command centres. Data from many locations can be collected, stored and processed. It can then be quickly analysed and distributed to the users who need it the most. HEWS is an open platform, built using a modular approach, so the widest variety of users can implement it.
 
What will make HEWS critical to disaster relief agencies is that it is satellite based. Disasters may disrupt or even destroy local infrastructure – but satellites are immune to their effects.
 
 
Two scenarios
 
The system will be tested in two different exercise scenarios, one African and one European. In the first, a suspected case of an infectious disease is reported. Field teams will be deployed by the local Ministry of Health, international organisations and NGOs. The scenario will require them to assess the current situation and deploy a mobile laboratory. Based on field reports, a practice emergency will be declared. HEWS will provide real-time reporting from the various locations and provide insight into how the epidemic is developing. A response will then be organised and feedback provided to mobile teams on road access, water, food, drugs, and medical disposables.
 
The second scenario simulates a terrorist attack in the centre of a European capital. The resulting confusion leads to traffic jams and saturation of the mobile telephone network. The work of the many civil protection and health operators, who are all entering the scene at the same time, is hindered by a lack of coordination and field information, particularly on decontamination measures and treatment protocols. HEWS will give civil protection authorities the ability to supply this information and coordinate the field teams correctly.
 
HEWS is the work of a consortium of three companies, Instituto Nacional de Saúde and Tekever S.A., both from Portugal, and Ridgeback s.a.s. from Italy. The project is co-financed by ESA as part of the Health and Telemedicine via Satellite Programme.
 
 
 
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