Disaster information collection and transmission experiments using Ka-band aeronautical satellite communications

A real time system for disaster information collection and transmission using ka-band aeronautical satellite communications has been developed. This system is composed of three subsystems: a Ka-band aeronautical satellite communication (KASC) subsystem, a position-estimation and data-processing (PEDP) subsystem, and an information-distributing Internet application subsystem. Experiments to examine the performance of the overall system have been carried out. In this paper, we´ll outline the overall experimental system and present some experiment results.