Global Aerospace Monitoring and Disaster Management [Paperback]

In this book, space systems are situated in the global processes of the 21st centurys information society and the role that space information systems could play in risk management is determined; methods of detecting and forecasting of both natural disasters and technogenic catastrophes and existing global and regional monitoring systems are described; and the IGMASS is introduced with its architecture and design concept and social and economic aspects and estimates of its creation, development, and utilization. Finally, results of the international symposium held in Limassol, Cyprus, in November 2009 in preparation of the IGMASS projects submission to the United Nations are discussed.This book explores the potential role of space-based systems in global risk and disaster management. The text introduces the proposed international global natural and industrial emergency aerospace monitoring system (IGMASS), its architecture and function.Preface.- I Natural Calamities and its Forecasts.- II Technogenic Emergencies: Can They Be Reliably Predicted?.- III Global Risks and Threats to the Humanity from Outer Space: Prospects of Warning and Parrying.- IV The Conception of the International Global Monitoring Aerospace System (IGMASS).- V The Role of the Space Exploration in the deal of Information Field of the Security formation - a new paradigm of the sustainable development of the Humanity.- Conclusion.In this book, space systems are situated in the global processes of the 21st centurys information society and the role that space information systems could play in risk management is determined; methods of detecting and forecasting of both natural disasters and technogenic catastrophes and existing global and regional monitoring systems are described; and the IGMASS is introduced with its architecture and design concept and social and economic aspects and estimates of its creation, development, and utilization. Finally, results of the international symposium held in Limalc›