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Images from NASA satellites give a wider perspective of the full extent and devastation of the wildfires raging in Southern California. A pair of images from NASA's Aqua satellite show the Los Angeles metropolitan area on November 16, 2008.
Read MoreA major disaster recovery exercise in Scandinavia relied on Inmarsat BGAN to send vital images to help emergency responders worldwide. The Triplex 2008 event on the border of Sweden and Norway used an unmanned aircraft (UAV) to survey the "disaster zone".
Read MoreA 6.5 magnitude earthquake that occurred on October 29 in Pakistan saw terrible losses, both in human and material measures. According to local authorities, 321 people have killed and 603 seriously injured (with as many as 311 and 350 in the Ziarat area alone). In total, more than 130,000 people have been affected.
Read MoreAdvanced interactive, 3D visual models of harbors developed by Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) for the U.S. government were used by state agencies and various news organizations to alert the public of the potential catastrophic impact of Hurricane Ike's storm surge.
Read MoreHonduras' office of the UNDAC (the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination) requested Telecoms Sans Frontieres’ (TSF) support after devastating rains have killed least 24 people and thousands have been evacuated after several days of heavy rain leading to mudslides and floods. According to the government more than 200,000 have been affected, 25,000 have been left homeless and eight people are missing.
Read MoreDedicated teams of Harris Corporation employees provided emergency support during the past three months to ensure the integrity of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) telecommunications network in the face of four hurricanes and a severe tropical storm.
Read MoreFor more than one month TSF has assisted victims of the four consecutive cyclones that devastated much of Haiti: Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike.? The main affected area is Gona?ves, a northern city of 300,000 inhabitants already affected in 2004 where at least 250,000 people needed immediate assistance. Les Gona?ves soon became the main humanitarian hub for aid agencies (both UN and NGOs) with overall coordination in the capital Port au Prince.
Read MoreTelecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) is among the first to help in times of need, especially when a country such as Haiti, the poorest in the Western hemisphere, which was already suffering from a global food crisis then got hit by three consecutive hurricanes. In August and September 2008, Gustav, Hanna and Ike devastated the island nation.
Read MoreViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ:VSAT] received Inmarsat Case Approval for the ViaSat VRT-100 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) terminal, which can be invaluable to first responders of civil emergencies such as fire, police homeland security, relief agencies, and news media personnel. The ViaSat VRT-100 enables one to quickly set up reliable communications even in the midst of extreme weather conditions.
Read MoreWord comes to us from Oisin Walton (TSF) in Gonaives and Adele Waugaman (UN Foundation) who are part of two teams of Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) emergency telecommunications specialists deployed to Haiti as it was hit by four cyclones—Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike—all in less than a month.
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