Information and communication technology in the service of disaster mitigation and humanitarian relief

APCC 2003 - 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, in conjunction with 6th Malaysia International Conference on Communications, MICC 2003, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 730-734

  Oh, Ei Sun ^a  

^a Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Arm; Artificial satellites; Cities and towns; Communications technology; Earthquakes; Humans; Mobile communication; Modems; Sun; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY SERVICES; MODEMS; SATELLITES; SUN; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ARM; CITIES AND TOWNS; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

DISASTERS;

EID: 35148823889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APCC.2003.1274454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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