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Publication date
27 Apr 2004
REMSAT (Real-time Emergency Management via Satellites) has demonstrated how satellite data concerning forest fires can be successfully accessed through a hand-held user terminal at the actual scene of a forest blaze in British Columbia, Canada. One future area of research is developing a transportable, user-friendly and rugged transportable satellite telecommunications system intended to replace local telecommunications damaged during a disaster situation.