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UN Agencies push Space technology for emergency communications
Solutions sought to enhance peaceful uses of outer space
Geneva, 11 March 2010
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Space Technology for Emergency Communications: Special session of UN Inter-Agency Meeting on Outer Space Activities |
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Friday, 12 March 2010, 14:30 CET |
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ITU, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Strengthen cooperation among UN Agencies to facilitate communications during emergencies and natural disasters.
ITU’s Radiocommunication Bureau encourages Administrations, national regulatory authorities and disaster relief agencies to use the new database on “Emergency and disaster relief radiocommunication”.
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Organized by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and hosted by ITU, the 30th Inter-Agency Meeting on Outer Space Activities will set up a dialogue with Member States and UN entities on important space-related developments related to emergency communications in the event of natural disasters.
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For information on the UN Inter-Agency Meeting on Outer Space Activities and its Open Informal Session see www.uncosa.unvienna.org/uncosa/index.html
ITU Resolution 647 (WRC-07) on terrestrial and space-related frequencies/frequency bands for "Emergency and disaster relief radiocommunication”:
www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=information&rlink=res647&lang=en
Space services emergency database: www.itu.int/ITU-R/space/res647/index.asp
Available frequencies/frequency bands for use in Emergency and Disaster Relief situations
and/or Standard operating procedures and national spectrum management practices: www.itu.int/net/itu-r/terrestrial/res647/default.aspx
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For further information, please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information, ITU
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+41 22 730 5046 |
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+41 79 249 4861 |
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sanjay.acharya@itu.int |
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Jamshid Gaziyev
Associate Programme Officer
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Vienna International Centre
PO Box 500
1400 Vienna, Austria
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+431 26060-4958 |
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+41 79 249 4868 |
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jamshid.gaziyev@unoosa.org |
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About UNOOSA
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) implements the decisions of the General Assembly and of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its two Subcommittees, the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and the Legal Subcommittee. The Office is responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space, and assisting developing countries in using space science and technology.
The work of UNOOSA includes implementing the global platform for disaster management (UN-SPIDER), promoting the global search and rescue system (COSPAS-SARSAT), addressing the issues of interoperability and compatibility of global navigation satellite systems through the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG), and overseeing the global array of instruments for studying space weather and the profound impact of the Sun on the Earth.
The Office discharges the Secretary-General’s responsibility under international space law, including the maintenance of the Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space, which serves as the central depository of information provided by Member States and international organizations on their satellites. As part of its advocacy role, the Office organizes workshops on space law and policy, and is developing a curriculum in space law. The Office prepares and distributes reports, studies and publications on various fields of space science and technology and their applica¬tion, as well as on international space law.
Located in Vienna, Austria, UNOOSA maintains a website at www.unoosa.org