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Issue
No. 10, Spring 2006
Emergency
Communication
Welcome
to Issue No.10 of the Online Journal
of Space Communication that gives special attention
to emergency communication. The contents of this issue
are based on the proceedings of the National Conference
on Emergency Communications (NCEC) held at the George
Washington University in Washington D.C., December
12-13, 2005.
The
Emergency Communications conference presented a unique
opportunity for our Online Space Journal of Space
Communication. The Journal has as its mission to
become a credible record and repository for developments
of public significance in satellite and space communication,
and to promote critical analysis of those developments.
Within a two-day period, prominent leaders in government,
business and academia assembled to think aloud about
how to prepare for and respond to natural and man-made
disasters, one of the most pressing issues of our
time.
If
there was one thing made clear by speakers at the
NCEC conference, it is that satellite services are
indispensable in the event of disruptive disasters.
But to really meet the need, satellites of the future
must be more interoperable with terrestrial services.
The White Paper on Emergency Communications, generated
shortly after the conference and included here only
a click away, illustrates some of the ways greater
interoperability might be possible.
The Guest Editors of this special issue of the Journal
are George Washington University colleagues Joseph
Pelton and Neil Helm. Your may reach them at:
Joseph
Pelton, Director (ecjpelton@aol.com)
Neil Helm, Deputy
Director (neil.helm1@verizon.net)
Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute
Room 230, 20101 Academic Way Drive, University Center,
Ashburn,
VA 20147, 703-726-8250
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