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Satellite Services For Disaster Management And Security Applications, Otto Koudelka, Peter Schrotter

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Satellites can be a vital communications element in case of emergencies or natural disasters. This is not only true for developing countries, but also for highly developed regions. As the example of the floods in Central Europe in 2002 have shown, even basic telecommunications services can become unavailable. During natural or man-made disasters, access to data from meteorological and remote sensing satellites is extremely important for assessing the situation.

Issue 14: From The Guest Editor, Rafael Obregon

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Introduction from Rafael Obregon, Associate Professor, School of Media Arts and Studies and Director, Communications and Development Studies Program at Ohio University.

The Possible Use Of Telemedicine In Developing Countries, R. Wootton

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Since the place of telemedicine in the industrialized world is by no means properly worked out yet, it might seem premature to consider its use in developing countries. Nonetheless, there is interest in the possible use of telemedicine in developing countries, from at least two organizations:

1. The Midjan group, an impromptu committee that was formed following the African Regional Telecommunications Development Conference in Abidjan in March 19963. This European telemedicine collaboration group aims to explore the use of telemedicine in developing countries. At present, the group includes representatives from 22 telecommunication and medical informatics suppliers, telecommunication operators, universities, hospitals and …

Organizing Committee: Reach To Space Conference On Space Commercialization: A Celebration Of 50 Years In Space, D. Flournoy

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Michael Beavin, Department of Commerce

Robert Bell, SSPI

Tamara Bond, SSPI

David Bross, Hannover Fairs Corporartion

Dean Henry Burdg, Auburn University

David Cavossa, Arrowhead Global Solutions

Scott Chase, Access Intelligence

Leonard David, Space.com

Kenneth Davidian, NASA

Don Flournoy, Ohio University

Tara Giunta, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLC

Ray Hamilton, Auburn University

Douglas Heydon, Consultant

Susan Irwin, Irwin Communications

Hussein Jirdah, Universities Space Research Association

Randy Johnson, Auburn University

David Logsdon, US Chamber of Commerce, Space Enterprise Project

Andrea Maleter, Futron Corporation

Ted Mallory, Astar Air Cargo

Joseph Pelton, George Washington University

Art Poland, George Mason University

Lon Rains, Space …

Sponsors: Reach To Space Conference On Space Commercialization: A Celebration Of 50 Years In Space, D. Flournoy

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Sponsors of the Reach to Space Conference on Space Commercialization: A Celebration of 50 Years in Space

Speaker Biographies: Reach To Space Conference On Space Commercialization: A Celebration Of 50 Years In Space, D. Flournoy

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Speaker Biographies: Reach to Space Conference on Space Commercialization: A Celebration of 50 Years in Space

Edward D. Horowitz

Phillip Spector

John Mattingly

Robert Bell

Joseph N. Pelton

Courtney Stadd

Gregg Maryniak

J. Steven Newman

Lon Rains

Don M. Flournoy

John Ordway

Conference Program, D. Flournoy

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CONFERENCE ON SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION

CELEBRATION OF 50 YEARS IN SPACE

AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Monday, November 12, 2007

Viability And Application Of Mounting Personal Pid Voc Sensors To Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Cheri Marcham

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Small Unmanned Aerial Systems in Emergency Response

Current sUAS Uses

• Search and rescue
• Thermal imaging
• Evaluating structural stability
• Spread of wildfires
• Storm damage

Issue 12: Contributors, Don Flournoy

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Biographical information on the Issue 12 contributors.

Usdla: An Instructional Media Selection Guide For Distance Learning, Jolly T. Holden, Philip Westfall

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Purpose and Use of the Media Selection Guide

Increasingly, educators and trainers are challenged within their respective
organizations to provide for the efficient distribution of instructional con-
tent using instructional media. The appropriate selection of instructional
media to support distance learning is not intuitive and does not occur as a
matter of personal preference. On the contrary, instructional media selec-
tion is a systematic sequence of qualitative processes based on sound in-
structional design principles. Although media selection is often mentioned
when studying the discipline of instructional technology or Instructional
Systems Design (ISD), it is sometimes overlooked when applying the …

U.S. Government Education And Training Network, Philip Westfall

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The U.S. Government Education and Training Network is a network of networks operated by a consortium of 17 federal agencies. With over 10,000 scheduled hours of broadcasting each year (4,500 from ATN alone), from 15 uplinks reaching out to over 1,500 receive sites, GETN offers high-quality, low-cost ITV with virtually limitless distribution capability within the US today and overseas.

A Critical Perspective On The Indian Experience, K. P. Madhu

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Growth in the use of satellites for education has been phenomenal in India. Beginning in the 1970s with the SITE project (Satellite Instructional Television Experiment) using a borrowed US satellite, then in the 1980s having its own indigenous INSAT satellite for educational TV, to having a full fledged educational channel on national TV in the 1990s, to the potential of 72 educational channels on EDUSAT at the beginning of the 21st century, shows long-term interest and commitment to this sector.

Distance Education Projects In Kyrgyzstan, Aida Aidakyeva

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Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, one of the former Soviet Union republics, endowed with few natural resources, but it has a tremendously advantageous location on the major crossroads between Asia and Europe. Under the Soviet system the educational level of the population used to be very high in Kyrgyzstan. Recently the quality of education has started to worsen due to the continuous migration of the nation's specialists to more economically developed countries.

Distance Education Via Satellite: An Early Case Study Of The Indonesian Distance Education Satellite System, Willard D. Shaw

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In 1980, the U.S. Agency for International Development initiated the AID Rural Satellite Program (RSP) to explore the potential of telecommunications as a means of extending scarce expert resources and expanding educational opportunities to remote and rural areas. Building on simple, interactive, and inexpensive telephone-based technologies, the Program developed teleconferencing systems for use as a development tool. Three pilot projects-in Indonesia, the West Indies, and Peru-were implemented to test and demonstrate that audioteleconferencing could reliably and affordably support development activities in education, health and agriculture.

The abstract of this paper is available in Bahasa Indonesia. See supplemental files below.

Telesecundaria Of Mexico, Jose Calderoni

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A perspective by one who has spent many years working in a distance education program that is successful…

Mexico's Educational Satellite Program

Satellite Technology Applications In Education: Examples From Greece, Yioryos Nardis

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In ancient Greece, there was a mechanism for processing space information from the earth. The Antikythera has since been referred to as the world's first (mechanical) computer. In Greece, the Antikythera mechanism was used to fabricate calendars and schedules for seasons of harvesting and for organizing religious festivals. More than two millennia later, the descendants of these early scholars and technicians are still using outer space to educate themselves, but now the mechanism is electronic and digital using software and spaced-based satellites.

Worldspace Satellite Radio, S. Rangarajan

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There are significant challenges to the delivery of quality education to less-developed nations. The primary obstacle is the lack of available and affordable connectivity solutions. Broadcast satellites can play an important role to fill this void. Particularly, digital broadcast satellites can provide audio and multimedia contents to multiple locations simultaneously. WorldSpace, with its extensive reach and low-cost terminals, offers a viable solution to increase the access to global educational resources. This solution includes audio formats, asynchronous multimedia delivery and creation of virtual classrooms with instructor-led, synchronous delivery of audio-visual presentations. These help enhance the quality of education delivery across Africa …

The Broadband Satellite System "Ipstar": Applications In Asia-Pacific Region, Masudul Biswas

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The increasing trend of data traffic has turned the world into an information society. Even so, a significant portion of the areas and populations of the world have remained outside the flow of data traffic keeping them information-poor. That is why the issue of "digital divide" has popped up. But it is the cost-effectiveness factor of delivering systems that has guided the changes taking place in information and communication technologies that will ultimately benefit the end users.

Satellite-Based Distance Education In India, Sanjay Jasola, Ramesh Sharma

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EduSat is the first satellite of India designed specifically to serve the educational sector. It was put into geo-stationary orbit by the GSLV-3 launch vehicle (on September 20, 2004) by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

Ipstar And Education In Thailand, Taksin Uppalakom

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The satellite communication project called IPSTAR was first developed in 1997 by Shin Satellite of Thailand. The project's aim was to deliver an inexpensive broadband satellite better suited to consumer markets. This project included a broadband satellite with more advanced ground system capabilities. The model for the IPSTAR ground system was first field deployed in the year 2000 using IPSTAR first generation services on conventional satellites. These first generation services are still available in various countries on Thaicom, INSAT, APSTAR and ST-1 satellites.