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Telecommunication Support Systems in Complex Humanitarian Emergency Situations

Based on the suggestions of Tampera Conference all countries have to ensure telecommunication support during all kind of emergency situations, catastrophes and other disasters caused by human actions or natural forces. This obligation refers to the state and its organizational levels as well as to corporations and organizations that perform, or are the part of, telecommunication services of the country. Furthermore, obligation relates to the planning, preparedness, acting, and quick relief of telecommunication system in emergency situations, at the same time having the objective of coordination, introduction and acceptation of regulations and protocols, as well as legal regulations. Convention suggestion emphasized usage of public mobile telecommunication network for early alert and informing in emergency situations, as well as defining the operative procedures of telecommunication support. This paper describes the model entitled “ Telecommunication Support Systems (TSS) in Complex Humanitarian Emergency Situations” that is applied in the one of the Croatian counties as an example of Urban Emergency Planning and Response concept. System contains several subsystems which perform their function via mobile phone network: sending SMS (Short Messages Services) to the mobile phone of the users located on the area exposed to the danger, locating lost or endangered persons by their mobile phone, etc. All these TSS functions are connected to the local emergency centre and in interaction with GIS support the number of inhabitants integrated in the system can be determined. As it is previously described, such system is based on mobile phone network and its development thus facing the Realities of the Third Millennium.

disaster management ; emergency telecommunications ; GIS

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