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Through tragedies much is learned, and so it is with emergency services organizations — in terms of communications. Lessons learned and investments and improvements in technology resulted in Regional Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroups over the Mobile Satellite Ventures' (MSV) communications network that now extends coast to coast and beyond.
Read MoreIridium Satellite LLC reports that its mobile satellite communications service has been providing peak levels of reliable, critical lifelines to first responders in the Gulf Coast Region since news of hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike started to appear.
Read MoreHurricane Ike is getting larger as a tropical cyclone with hurricane force winds that reach out as far as 115 miles from the storm center, with tropical force winds outward to 275 miles. As of 10:00 a.m., September 11th, hurricane warnings are up, ranging from Morgan City Louisiana to Baffin Bay, Texas.
Read MoreTelecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) crews of IT and telecoms specialists can intervene anywhere in the world in less than 24 hours after any sudden onset disaster or conflict, and in a matter of minutes, set up a satellite-based telecoms centre offering broadband Internet, phone and fax lines. Now they providing assistance following the devastating courses of hurricanes Gustav and Hanna in the Caribbean. TSF deployed a team of emergency telecommunications specialist to Haiti on Wednesday. The departed from TSF Americas base in Managua, Nicaragua to arrive in Gonaives, a city in the North seriously affected by the heavy rains and winds of the successive hurricanes.
Read MoreMobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has joined with the State of Washington's Military Department Emergency Management Division to launch the NorthWest Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroup serving public safety interests throughout seven states in the northwestern United States including Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
Read MoreFrom Human Rights Watch comes news of recent satellite images released by the UN program UNOSAT that confirm the widespread torching of ethnic Georgian villages inside South Ossetia. Detailed analysis of the damage depicted in five ethnic Georgian villages shows the destruction of these villages around the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, was caused by intentional burning and not armed combat. The new satellite images, taken by a commercial satellite on August 19th, were analyzed by experts of the Geneva-based UNOSAT program, which is part of the UN Institute for Training and Research and produces satellite-derived mapping in support of UN agencies and the international humanitarian community.
Read MoreAs soon as a few hours after landing in Tbilisi, Telecoms Sans Frontieres began its first humanitarian calling operations enabling Georgians displaced by the conflict to give news to their anxious relatives of their survival, and any other information. In this process more than 200 families who fled the bombings in South Ossetia and Gori made calls to a loved one from operations taking place in camps installed at Tbilisi airport or in schools of the capital.
Read MoreEver ready to assist, Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) has been on alert since the conflict between Georgia and Russia began, and deployed an emergency crew of telecoms specialists to land in Tbilisi on Wednesday afternoon. This action came after five days of intense combat between both countries.
Read MoreA remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week. The aircraft collected information that will be now used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning across the state. The Ikhana aircraft is imaging almost 4,000 square miles from Santa Barbara north to the Oregon border.
Read MoreMicrowave Radio Communications (MRC) now offers a broad portfolio of services and solution integration offerings for public safety and law enforcement agencies.
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