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Space-Borne Systems in Support of Emergency and Disaster Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Gloria W. Heath ,
Jerry Freibaum  and
Paul B. Richards
Gloria W. Heath
Affiliation:
Studies Committee on Worldwide Disaster Response, Alerting and Location, and Safety Employing Space-Borne Systems of the International Academy of Astronautics.
Jerry Freibaum
Affiliation:
NASA
Paul B. Richards
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory
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Extract

The quick re-establishment of communications is vital to all disaster relief operations, but simple effective means of doing so are usually lacking. The unpredictability of the type, time, and location of catastrophic or disaster events requires a communications capability which is mobile, versatile, and dependable under all conditions of weather and terrain. Similar needs are essential for emergency medical services and search and rescue operations. These are problems without national boundaries.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 39 - 41
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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