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Mobile satellite services for public safety, disaster mitigation and disaster medicineBetween 1967 and 1987 nearly three million lives were lost and property damage of $25 to $100 billion resulted form natural disasters that adversely affected more than 829 million people. The social and economic impacts have been staggering and are expected to grow more serious as a result of changing demographic factors. The role that the Mobile Satellite Service can play in the International Decade is discussed. MSS was not available for disaster relief operations during the recent Loma Prieta/San Francisco earthquake. However, the results of a review of the performance of seven other communication services with respect to public sector operations during and shortly after the earthquake are described. The services surveyed were: public and private telephone, mobile radio telephone, noncellular mobile radio, broadcast media, CB radio, ham radio, and government and nongovernment satellite systems. The application of MSS to disaster medicine, particularly with respect to the Armenian earthquake is also discussed.
Document ID
19920014949
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Freibaum, Jerry
(Public Service Satellite Consortium Washington, DC, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: JPL, California Inst. of Tech., Proceedings of the 2nd International Mobile Satellite Conference (IMSC 1990)
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Accession Number
92N24192
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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