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The International Academy of Astronautics Studies Committee on Worldwide Disaster and Emergency Response Employing Space-Borne Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Gloria W. Heath ,
Jerry Freibaum  and
Paul B. Richards
Gloria W. Heath
Affiliation:
From the Worldwide Disaster & Emergency Response Employing Space-Borne Systems, Studies Committee Chairperson, Gloria W. Heath, Sar-Assist Inc, One Island Lane, Greenwich CT 06830,USA. (Telephone: 203869–1322.)
Jerry Freibaum
Affiliation:
From experiments in land mobile satellite communications compatible with existing terrestrial mobile emergency medical response systems: Jerry Freibaum, Technical Consultation Service, Space & Terrestrial Applications, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC 20546,USA. (Telephone: 202755–8570.)
Paul B. Richards
Affiliation:
Methodology for Disaster Response Planning: Dr. Paul B. Richards, Code 4103, Director, Fleet Medical Support Project, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375.
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Extract

The objectives of the Second World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine are closely aligned with those of the International Academy of Astronautics' Studies Committee. The fundamental concern that we share is that of reducing human suffering in the wake of life-threatening natural forces, man-made disasters, or emergencies experienced in the course of daily life. The overarching objective is to reduce to a minimum a population's vulnerability to disasterous occurrences by anticipating exposures accurately and setting in place wise precautionary systems.

The contribution made by space-borne systems is essentially that they can provide accurate information rapidly, clearly and dependably over wide areas.

Type
Part III: International Organizations - Planning - Disaster Events
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 312
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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