Aerospace communications for emergency applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1922-1938

  Berioli, Matteo ^a   Molinaro, Antonella ^b   Morosi, Simone ^c   Scalise, Sandro ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Dipartimento Patrimonio Architettonico e Urbanistico (PAU)   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assisted localization; cooperative communications; emergency services; relay networks; satellite backhauling; satellite communications

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; EMERGENCY SERVICES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AEROSPACE COMMUNICATION; ASSISTED LOCALIZATION; DATA CONNECTION; EMERGENCY RELIEF; EMERGENCY RESCUE; RELAY NETWORK; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80054969587     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2161737     Document Type: Article

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