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A Scottish company is raising funds to develop a satellite that could help track and prevent the spread of forest fires such as those that recently devastated parts of south-eastern Australia.
Read MoreGlobal Satellite USA, a satellite solutions provider, has partnered with worldwide crisis response company Global Rescue to provide their clients with the highest level of medical and security information and emergency evacuations from around the globe.
Read MoreThe glacier-covered Redoubt Volcano is one of many that line Alaska’s southern shores. Located 177 kilometers (110 miles) southwest of Anchorage, Redoubt is one of the peaks in the scenic Chigmit Mountain Range that frames the western side of Cook Inlet in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
Read MoreThere is an update to the information from Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) when deployed January 24th in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo close to the border with Sudan to support aid agencies working in the Haut-Uele District.
Read MoreBush fires in southeastern Australia turned deadly over the first weekend of February 2009.
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the December 2008 edition of TalkThrough (U.K.), the magazine of the Ministry of Defence Police. In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used in a number of high profile military deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the technology has been adapted for domestic use and is attracting the interest of a number of Police Forces and other civilian agencies.
Read MoreWhat a consolation to know that Spacenet, a provider of satellite networking solutions, announced that H-E-B, one of the nations largest independently owned food retailers, deployed Spacenet’s high-performance Connexstar satellite services as an emergency communication network in support of disaster-relief efforts during severe weather conditions.
Read MoreThere was plenty of advance warning — back to October of 2000 — when the International Cospas-Sarsat Program, announced at its 25th Council Session held in London, UK of plans to terminate satellite processing of distress signals from 121.5 and 243 MHz emergency beacons on February 1, 2009.
Read MoreNOAA satellites were key factors in the rescues of 283 people throughout the United States and its surrounding waters in 2008.
Read MoreTelecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) is off and ready to assist the horrific situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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