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ITU's Engagement:
Monitoring Climate Change |
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As the steward of the global framework for spectrum, ITU will allocate the
necessary radio-frequency spectrum to foster the operation without interference
of radiocommunication systems and satellites used for climate monitoring and
control, weather forecasting, remote sensing and disaster prediction and
detection.
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- The
World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRCs) analyze the spectrum
requirements and allocate the necessary radio frequency spectrum for
radiocommunication systems and radio based applications employed for
environment and climate monitoring including weather forecasting, natural
disaster prediction, detection and mitigation.
- The studies carried out by the
ITU-R Study Groups, decisions of the Radiocommunication Assemblies and the treaty status decisions of the
World
Radiocommunication Conferences provide necessary support for the development
and operation of different systems involved in climate monitoring, weather
and disaster prediction, detection and relief such as:
- weather satellites that track the progress of hurricanes and
typhoons and weather radars for tracking tornadoes, thunderstorms, and
the effluent from volcanoes and major forest fires;
- radio-based meteorological aid systems that collect and process
weather data; and
- different radiocommunication systems (satellite and terrestrial)
used for dissemination of information concerning different natural and
man-made disasters.
- WRC-07 and
Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-07) adopted a number of
Resolutions on studies related to remote-sensing, which is a vital component
in the science of climate change.
- ITU-R Study Groups have established
ITU-R Recommendations on the
development and use of radiocommunication systems and radio-based
applications operating in Earth-exploration satellite, meteorological-aids
and meteorological satellite services, which today provide most of data for
the Global Observing System (GOS). These data are also used in the Global
Climate Observing System (GCOS).
- ITU-R Study Group 7 (Science services) in cooperation with the
World
Meteorological Organization produced WMO and ITU Handbook “Use of Radio
Spectrum for Meteorology” providing information on development and a proper
use radiocommunication systems and radio-based technologies for environment
observation, climate control, weather forecasting and natural and man-made
disaster prediction, detection and mitigation.
- ITU-D SG 2 (Development and management of telecommunication services and
networks and ICT applications) in cooperation with
ITU-R SG 7 (Science
services) developing a special report on utilization of ICT for disaster
management and active and passive space-based systems as they apply for
disaster prediction, detection and mitigation with the purpose to facilitate
the use of these applications in developing countries.
- The Radiocommunication Sector
has been working on the spectrum
requirements of intelligent transport systems (ITS) since the early-1980s.
ITU-R Study Group 5 (Terrestrial services) (SG 8 before 2008) produced
ITU-R
“Intelligent Transport System” - Handbook on Land Mobile (including
wireless) in Land Mobile series, which is also explaining how cars may be
used as an environment monitoring tool (as probes to measure air
temperature, humidity, precipitation – when a vehicle is near a roadside
receiver these data are sent through wireless links and used for weather
forecasting and climate control).
- ITU-R closely cooperate with the World Meteorological Organization,
other UN agencies, international (e.g. ESA) and national agencies (such as
JAXA, NASA, RSA) and organizations on matters related to the use radio
spectrum by and providing non-interference operation of radiocommunication
systems for climate monitoring.
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