Real-Time
Deep-Ocean Tsunami Measuring, Monitoring, and
...
measurement system through evolution in both technology and knowledge of deep ocean ... The 9.0 earthquake of December 26, 2004 and the resulting tsunami killed ..... transmits an alert to the buoy, which causes it to turn on the Iridium ... Each DART II buoy sends its data to the Iridium Satellite Network using an Iridium ...
www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart/dart_ii_description_6_4_05.pdf
Technology
Developments in Real-Time Tsunami Measuring
...
nami warnings. The strategy is to develop a fast, accurate operational tsunami forecast system to provide an optimal interpretation of the available earthquake ...
nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/Dart/Pdf/mein2836_final.pdf
Data Communications Plan
Ocean Observing System (IOOS) will use the GOES satellites for data ..... disasters such as the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina have made certain ... recover from extensive start-up costs and was acquired by Iridium Satellite LLC. ...... Shift Keying) for traffic, broadcast, synchronization, ring alert and messaging.
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/.../Data_Communications_Plan_52506.pdf
REPORT
North Pacific Tsunami Awareness Conference,
Honolulu ...
Hawai'i Community Level Tsunami Vulnerability Assessment Using GIS. ▪ Pacific Tsunami Museum and ... ATAS: Australian Tsunami Alerting System ..... moment magnitude scale for earthquake detection (potentially tsunami source). He noted that ...... Procure Iridium Satellite Phones with antenna (SOPAC). • Maintain HF ...
collaborate.csc.noaa.gov/.../Hazard Clearing Ho
TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER REFERENCE GUIDE - MetEd
The U.S. Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (US IOTWS) Program is ... In the aftermath of the Great Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami of ... ing tsunami warnings and connecting with communities at risk to ensure that ..... international networks, are available in real time through the internet and satellite ...
www.meted.ucar.edu/hazwarnsys/twcrg/TWC_All_lowres.pdf
Data and
Information Collection
international networks, are available in real time through the internet and satellite ... characterization of tsunami-generating earthquakes provides the first ... warnings based on data from networks of seismic gages are subsequently refined ... several satellite systems provide weather data and bulletins in various regions.
www.meted.ucar.edu/hazwarnsys/twcrg/Chapter4.pdf
TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER REFERENCE GUIDE - MetEd
Warning System Program. ... Tsunami Warning System Decision Support . ... Warnings and Other Products . .... Using P and S Waves to Locate Earthquakes . ..... Other Satellite Communications for Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12 ... Real-Time Transmission of Data—Iridium Transmissions and Time Series ...
www.meted.ucar.edu/hazwarnsys/twcrg/Tableofcontents.pdf
A Tsunami Early-Warning System A
Tsunami Early-Warning ... -
ESA
earthquake, with its epicentre in the Indian. Ocean to the west ... Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) ... The beauty of using PARIS for tsunami detection ...
www.esa.int/esapub/bulletin/bulletin124/bul124h_martin_neira.pdf
Potential For Tsunami Detection And Early-Warning
Using Space ...
data from the ocean's surface through the variation as a result of the satellite platform, the ... as an efficient and accurate tsunami early-warning system. ..... 2.6. 1 Subduction zone earthquake generates a tsunami [GAO, 2006] . ..... the help of Iridium, a satellite constellation, to be analyzed at the Pacific Tsunami Warning ...
dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/42913/244303119.pdf
SCIENCE OF
TSUNAMI HAZARDS
The combined effects of the earthquake and tsunami were responsible for ... effectiveness of an early warning system that could alert promptly the ... relays information between the tsunameter and a satellite network using an Iridium transceiver. The. Iridium Satellite Network is a worldwide system capable of transmitting ...
www.
REAL-TIME TELEMETRY OPTIONS FOR OCEAN OBSERVING
...
transmission in nearshore regions whereas Iridium satellite communications are ideal for ... earthquakes for tsunami warnings, study and model water column physics for ... them more suitable for use on ocean observing systems. 2. Real- Time ...
cseweb.ucsd.edu/~kastner/papers/etc08-telemetry_ocean_observing.pdf
TSUNAMI
WARNING AND PREPAREDNESS
Potential Use of Earthquake Alerts from NEIC, 109. Detection of ...... Iridium commercial satellite communications system (Meinig et al., 2005). The two-way ...
www.technologyreview.com/files/.../
BRITISH
COLUMBIA TSUNAMI WARNING METHODS “A Toolkit for
...
earthquakes, but tsunamis can also be caused by near-shore and underwater ... Satellite. Personal Systems. Door-to-Door. Residential Route-warning ..... Local areas falling outside provincial jurisdiction receive warnings through the most appropriate ...... Iridium pager can receive short messages up to 80 characters long.
www.preventionweb.net/files/4045_3876ToolKit.pdf
Identify
Tsunami
for avoiding the tragedy is to use Tsunami Warning System (TWS) to forecast. .... 4.2 TWS Magnitude definition relevant to the Earthquake knowledge . .... local inhabitations lived in the coast of Pacific ocean, it still exist some false warnings. ...... According to using Iridium transceivers, buoys can send data to Iridium Satellite ...
diggy.ruc.dk/bitstream/1800/2183/1/Identify
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Update Monday, March 28, 2011 ...
Mar 28, 2011 ... The earthquake sparked widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific. ... The GoJ welcomes financial donations and asks Member States to donate through the ... System (FTS) of cash and in-kind contributions by sending an email ...... PWJ is also providing free iridium satellite telephone services and ...
www.coe-dmha.org/Research/ResearchInfoMgmt/.../Japan03282011.pdf
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Update Wednesday, April 13, 2011 ...
Apr 13, 2011 ... The quake triggered local tsunami warnings for Ibaraki prefecture, ... tsunami. Local governments plan to use parks and athletic fields to ... Ibaraki are preparing to tighten their early warning systems as the earthquake made areas more ...... PWJ is also providing free iridium satellite telephone services and ...
www.coe-dmha.org/Research/ResearchInfoMgmt/.../Japan04132011.pdf
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Update Friday, March 18, 2011 ...
Mar 18, 2011 ... sparked widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific. ..... Meanwhile, authorities continue to dump water using helicopters, ... pumps and emergency core cooling systems of the troubled reactors. ..... and rescue efforts, 13 Iridium satellite phones and 37 Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network ...
coe-dmha.org/Research/ResearchInfoMgmt/Japan/Japan03182011.pdf
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Update Thursday, March 17, 2011 ...
Mar 17, 2011 ... widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific. According to ..... companies in the northeast to restore IT systems, the UN reported. In Miyagi and ..... facilitate search and rescue efforts, 13 Iridium satellite phones and 37 Inmarsat ... tsunami and earthquake affected areas, working through local partners.
coe-dmha.org/Research/ResearchInfoMgmt/Japan/Japan03172011.pdf
20003-SPE-300 0 -
Data Centre Specifications
SAT. Satellite Modem. SB. Surface Buoy. TWS. Tsunami Warning System. TWC ... SATELLITE. MODEMS. MODEM. IRIDIUM. Fig 2.1 System Architecture ... The satellite modems are the T&T TT3026M Transceivers and they use the ..... Receive the earthquake alerts from the international agency database and retrieve the ...
www.envirtech.org/.../20003-SPE-300 0 -
DART II
System
DART II system plays in tsunami warning capabilities. Targeted Alaska ... surface buoy, Iridium satellite, and the tsunami warning centers. Radio waves travel at ...
www.ak
Near real-time GPS applications for
tsunami early warning systems
e.g., during the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 2004. (Subarya et al., 2006). ... cific Tsunami Warning Center) use partly similar sensors like the DART buoys ... Most stations have a. BGAN or IRIDIUM (low Earth orbit satellite system for mo- .... There is no function to set a tsunami mode or alert by GPS-based com- ...
www.bmbf.de/pubRD/
Satellite Communications Role
from Tokyo), creating extremely destructive tsunami that struck the ... Provided 300 units of Satellite Phone through JSAT Mobile Communications Inc. ... for their monitoring systems. ... Provided railways with substitute Earthquake Early Warnings ... Satellite Facilities Deployment. NTT. NTT docomo. Iridium. Portable ...
www.unescap.org/idd/events/2011-15ICC.../ESCAP-2011-Oct-APSCC.pdf
Economic
and Social Council Distr.: General
used typically involve both terrestrial and satellite systems to disseminate information .... risks using common alerting protocol, short message service (SMS ), Really ..... human life and economic assets due to the earthquake and tsunami, Japan ... facilitate the search and rescue efforts along with 13 Iridium satellite phones ...
www.unescap.org/idd/events/cdrr-2011/CDR2-4E.pdf
Role of
information and communications technology in the
...
natural disasters, for example the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (5 million), the 2005 South Asia earthquake (3 million) and the 2010 Haiti earthquake .... includes effective, timely and reliable early warning and alert systems at the national and local .... Inmarsat and Iridium are global satellite constellations, while Thuraya's two ...
www.unescap.org/idd/events/cict-2010/CICT2_3E.pdf
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Update Wednesday, March 30 ...
Mar 30, 2011 ... The earthquake sparked widespread tsunami warnings across the ... OCHA, March 20) Satellite image data from Pasco, a geospatial company in ... also swept through around half the town of Otsuchi in Iwate prefecture and around 46 .... a system to help landlords across the country offer vacant apartments ...
reliefweb.int/.../6E81A64554986AA749257864000E6277-Full_Report.pdf
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Update Tuesday, March 22, 2011 ...
Mar 13, 2011 ... widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific. According to the ... (OCHA,. March 18) The GoJ welcomes financial donations and asks Member States to donate through ..... systems are still operable before the power can be turned on. ..... PWJ is also providing free iridium satellite telephone services and ...
reliefweb.int/.../CDFB64029C8794994925785C000DC768-Full_Report.pdf
Situation report: Indian ocean earthquakes and
tsunamis, 02 ...
Jan 2, 2005 ... INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS ... UNICEF Regional Donor Alert. • WHO Donor Alert ... 4 Iridium satellite telephones .... Ready to use food supplies (no kitchens available for population); a priority is ... systems in the camps located in temples and schools in those places where medical ...
reliefweb.int/.../EBF964EB5060C69985256F800064BDDE-dfid-southasia-
Untitled - Bureau of Meteorology
Legislative responsibility for issuing tsunami warnings is currently not formally defined. ... development and regular testing of the early warning system for tsunami as MRD with ... Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering ( IISEE) and Japan .... Iridium satellite phones are relatively common (Red Cross etc.) but are ...
www.bom.gov.au/
SOPAC Member Countries National Capacity
Assessments: Tsunami
Capacity Assessment: Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems, Republic of the Fiji Islands .... TSUNAMI WARNINGS IN THE PACIFIC. ..... International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering .... It is hoped that this could be achieved by using ..... Iridium satellite phones with international and national voice and ...
www.bom.gov.au/
Tsunami - Bureau of
Meteorology
Capacity Assessment: Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems, Federated States of. Micronesia ..... source1960 Chile earthquake and tsunami (Warne 2009 ). ..... Set up permanently mounted 'always on' Iridium handheld in .... responsible for using this advice to distribute National tsunami warnings to their communities.
www.bom.gov.au/
From Research to Commercial Operations: The Next Generation
...
buoy-based real-time tsunami detection system produced was the ... commercial ETD DART® systems through a license agreement with PMEL. ... the Global Positioning System (GPS), Iridium satellite communications systems, on-board .... has performed exceptionally well, alerting on several earthquakes in the region ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5977168/6003381/06003520.pdf?arnumber...
Tsunami Detection Systems for
International Requirements
warning system would be reliable tsunami detection buoys that could meet very ... that recognize these characteristics, and then immediately alerts a tsunami ... 8.3 magnitude earthquake rocked the Kuril Islands, located between Japan and .... The electronics well houses and protects the GPS, Iridium Satellite LLC's satellite ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4446228/4449115/04449208.pdf?arnumber...
Database Designs and Metadata Management for Climate
...
Using the data model developed for NDBC's weather stations ... gateway via IRIDIUM® satellites (Iridium Satellite LLC) as shown in Figure 1. High temporal ... II tsunami system consists of a BPR and a surface buoy. Two .... Automated QC and Alerts. S c ientists ... addition, the earthquake information can be displayed in the ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5412664/5422059/05422442.pdf?arnumber...
White Paper on Emergency Communications
the Pakistan Earthquake and the Asian Tsunami. Although this ..... in the VHF and UHF bands, use of X-Band satellite systems to support National Guard recovery operations (or ... are potentially available to assist with such information sharing and public alerting. ..... In the mobile satellite Iridium, Globalstar, Mobile Satellite ...
spacejournal.ohio.edu/issue10/PDF/Final_Version_White_Paper.pdf
GPS water level measurements for Indonesia's
Tsunami Early ...
... severe tsunami was generated by a strong earthquake in Northern Sumatra ... waves, nor a system to disseminate tsunami warnings ... The first attempts to use GPS buoys for tsunami detection .... different communication antennas (BGAN, Iridium, PASTI). The ... (e.g., ground truthing of satellite measurements) a fiber optic ...
www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/11/741/2011/nhess-11-741-2011.pdf
Communication architecture of an early warning
system
phenomena of earthquakes and possible tsunamis are spread over very large ranges, the ... livering sensor data to a central alert or warning center. A more detailed .... tant work on using sirens for alarming the general public has been carried out by GTZ ..... The Iridium system uses these inter-satellite links to route traffic ...
www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/10/2215/2010/nhess-10-2215-2010.pdf
The GITEWS ocean bottom sensor packages
ing System (GITEWS) aims at reducing the risks posed by events such as the ... To minimize the lead time for tsunami alerts, to avoid false alarms, and to ... every tsunami caused by an earthquake. ..... not using satellite bandwidth from sensors located out of rel- ..... caused by a timeout of the Iridium modem rather than a fail- ...
www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/10/1759/2010/nhess-10-1759-2010.pdf
Summary
Report of the Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Steering
Group ...
will be a clarification of procedures and better coordination of warnings. Dick Hagemeyer ... We have made some success on the earthquake side since this item was opened. We now have .... communication using the Iridium satellite system.
nthmp-history.pmel.noaa.gov/nov02summary.pdf
Tsunami: scientific frontiers, mitigation,
forecasting and policy ...
Jun 26, 2006 ... systems and design guidance for tsunami-resilient communities. Information on ... earthquakes through 26 Feb 2005. 4.0–4.9 .... formed the Intergovernmental Coordinating Group for Tsunami Warnings in the ... Advances in satellite .... iridium satellite. Tsunami. Warning. Center iridium &. GPS antennas ...
rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1845/1989.full.pdf
Iridium Communications
was eventually bought for around $25 Million, forming Iridium Satellite LLC, despite the total cost of the. Stock Data. Price (52 .... hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunami‟s ... Beyond that, they are developing a product for ship security, which alerts crews in cases of ..... Use of satellite system to provide services to customers. 3.
uoinvestmentgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/IRDM.pdf
Proceedings
of ATEM'11
country-wide tsunami alert in Japan after Chilean event of February 27, 2010. The expected wave ... This is one of the largest earthquakes that Japan has ... Center (TWC) using the Iridium commercial satellite communications system. The two- ...
ccfit.nsu.ru/arom/data/abstracts/atem2011.pdf
PUBLIC SAFETY
Tribal, state and local governments use outdated alerting sys- tems to inform the ... Broadband can also make 911 and emergency alert systems ...... the earthquake and tsunami, the early .... Plan NOI, filed July 21, 2009, at 3; Iridium Satellite ...
download.broadband.gov/.../national-broadband-plan-chapter-16-public-
Operational Performance of the Second Generation fo the Deep
...
part of NOAA's Tsunami Program, which is part of a cooperative effort to save lives and protect property ... (BPR) using the commercial Iridium satellite communications system. .... 2006, 15:27 UTC, a 7.8 Magnitude earthquake occurred at 19.9S and 174.2W (Earthquake ... array in support of tsunami warnings are the DART ...
www.sealevelstations.org/.../DART II Performance Oceans_2007_
Risk and
avoidance
Data based on satellite measurements using the. United States Defense ..... A watch may also be initiated for regional tsunami earthquakes ... wave detection in the open ocean to land-based stations via Iridium satellites. Seven ... Weather Radio All Hazards system and the Emergency Alert System to provide tsunami ...
www.springerlink.com/index/p167h7181g7m82v8.pdf
Anatomy of
Historical Tsunamis: Lessons Learned for
Tsunami ...
to establish tsunami warning systems to protect life and property ... accuracy, and more reliable warnings, but limitations still exist in ... the last two decades through international tsunami science surveys ... December 26, 2004 great earthquake and catastrophic ...... University through satellite and telephone links, and ...
www.springerlink.com/index/625345r84022g301.pdf
Extraction
of tsunami source coefficients via inversion of
DART buoy ...
Dec 8, 2010 ... mation by making use of data from Deep-ocean Assessment and ... of two Tsunami Warning Centers responsible for providing warnings to .... communicates with tsunami warning centers via the Iridium Satellite System. ... a multiple of 60 since the earthquake can occur anywhere within the 15-min reporting ...
www.springerlink.com/index/f277028052329104.pdf
Title
“How Public & Satellite Sector Collaboration. Can Be ... Katrina, Tsunami, Earthquakes… ... Iridium handset. Thuraya handset. The Satcom Tools: GMPCS. Inmarsat ... using web and email to send ... Amber Alert System for Abducted Children ...
www.itu.int/ITU-D/emergencytelecoms/events/.../Doc57-GVF.pdf
ICT and Disaster Management
Mar 16, 2011 ... The Great East Japan Earthquake (2) tsunami. 5 ... 13 Iridium satellite phones. •. 62 Inmarsat Broadband Global ... Simultaneous Warnings Transmission to Mobile Phones. 14 ... corporations, prefectures, and municipalities through radio communication system to transmit information among administrative ...
www.itu.int/ITU-D/asp/CMS/Events/2011/disastercomm/S4A-Japan.pdf
REQUEST FOR COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT OUTLINE FOR THE
...
the recently published Guidelines on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) which .... Hurricanes in the United States (Iridium Satellite) . ..... ITU-R Recommendation S.1001 Use of systems in the fixed-satellite service in the ..... Specific applications include: hazard and risk modeling of tsunami earthquakes, storms, diseases, ...
www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-d/opb/.../D-STG-SG02.22-2010-01-PDF-E.pdf
スライド 1
Aug 3, 2010 ... Megathrust Earthquakes and Tsunamis. - Cabled ... seafloor by using underwater ... Satellite systems are very important to support to data transfer systems14 .... Doubled iridium communication ... alert of seismic intensity and ...
https://sentinel.tksc.jaxa.jp/announce/2010/08/03/.../110712_JPTMa.pdf
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