Emergency and Disaster relief – ITU-R Special Supplement
Table of contents
Foreword
The Tampere Convention
Introduction
1. Background
2. Radiocommunication Study Group activities
2.1 Study Group 4 (Fixed-satellite service)
2.2 Study Group 6 (Broadcasting services)
2.3 Study Group 7 (Science services)
2.4 Study Group 8 (Mobile, radiodetermination, amateur and related satellite services)
2.5 Study Group 9 (Fixed service)
3. Other activities in BR
3.1 ITU-R website on the role of radiocommunications in disaster mitigation and relief operations
3.2 Additional information of the Radiocommunication Sector
3.2.1 Maritime mobile Access and Retrieval System (MARS)
3.2.2 Regionally harmonized bands
4. Other activities in ITU
4.1 General Secretariat ITU
4.2 ITU-T
4.3 ITU-D
Annex 1 – ITU-R texts concerning radiocommunications for emergency and disaster relief
Section I – Radio Regulations texts
ARTICLE 30 General provisions
Section I – Introduction
Section II – Maritime provisions
Section III – Aeronautical provisions
Section IV – Land mobile provisions
ARTICLE 31 Frequencies for the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS)
Section I – General
Section II – Survival craft stations
Section III – Watchkeeping
ARTICLE 32 Operational procedures for distress and safety communications in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS)
Section I – General
Section II – Distress alerting
Section III – Distress traffic
ARTICLE 33 Operational procedures for urgency and safety communications in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS)
Section I – General
Section II – Urgency communications
Section III – Medical transports
Section IV – Safety communications
Section V – Transmission of maritime safety information
Section VI – Intership navigation safety communications
Section VII – Use of other frequencies for distress and safety
Section VIII – Medical advice
ARTICLE 34 Alerting signals in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS)
Section I – Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) and satellite EPIRB signals
Section II – Digital selective calling
RESOLUTION 646 (WRC-03)
Section II – ITU-R Recommendations and Reports
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.693
Annex 1 Minimum technical characteristics of DSC VHF EPIRBs
1. General
2. Alerting transmissions
3. DSC message format and transmission sequence
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.830-1
Scope
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R S.1001
ANNEX 1
1 Introduction
2 Basic considerations
2.1 Required services and associated channel capability
2.2 Circuit quality
2.3 Selection of frequency band
2.4 Associated earth station
3 Preferred modulation methods
4 Characteristics of the transportable earth station
4.1 System G/T ratio
4.2 Earth station e.i.r.p.
5 Configuration of the transportable earth station
5.1 Weight and size
5.2 Antenna
5.3 Power amplifier
5.4 Low-noise receiver
6 Examples of transportable earth station realizations and system implementation
6.1 Small transportable earth stations
6.1.1 An example of a small transportable earth station for operation at 6/4 GHz
6.1.2 Examples of air transportable and vehicle equipped small earth stations in the 14/12 GHz band
6.1.3 Examples of small transportable earth stations for operation at 30/20 GHz
6.2 Example of an emergency network and associated earth stations in the 14/12.5 GHz band
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1042-2
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R F.1105-1
ANNEX 1
1 Equipment characteristics
2 Engineering principles
2.1 Low-capacity links (equipment Type A)
2.2 Local radio networks (equipment Type B)
2.3 Links up to 30 channels (equipment Type C)
2.4 Trans-horizon (equipment Type D)
2.5 High capacity links (equipment Type E)
3 Transmission quality
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1467
ANNEX 1 Prediction of A2 and NAVTEX ranges
1 Overview
2 Prediction of A2 and NAVTEX ranges
2.1 IMO performance criteria
2.2 Achieving the required quality of signal
2.2.1 The effect of received noise
2.2.2 C/N required for single sideband (SSB) radiotelephony
2.2.3 C/N required for NAVTEX broadcasts
2.3 Accounting for ships topside noise
2.4 Determination of external noise factor, , for the required availability
2.5 Accounting for propagation by groundwave
2.5.1 Introduction
2.5.2 Proof of performance tests
2.5.3 Determination of extent of A2 service area
2.5.3.1 Determination of shore-based receive range
2.5.3.2 Determination of shore-based transmit power required
2.5.4 Determination of the range achieved using NAVTEX operation
3 Protection of A2 watch frequency
3.1 Impact of site separation on system performance
3.2 Estimating the level of the interference field
3.3 Required adjacent channel selectivity
3.4 Protection from adjacent channel interference
3.5 Protection from transmitter sideband noise
3.6 Co-site operation
4 Software requirements
4.1 Noise calculation
4.2 Intermodulation
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1637
REPORT ITU-R M.2033
1 Scope
2 Background
3 Harmonization of spectrum
4 Aspects of frequency bands for PPDR
5 Summary
Annex 1 Radiocommunication objectives for public protection and disaster relief
1 General objectives
2 Technical objectives
3 Operational objectives
Annex 2 Radiocommunication requirements for public protection and disaster relief
1 Terminology
1.1 Public protection and disaster relief (PPDR)
1.2 Applicability of voice, data, graphics and video to global/regional PPDR
1.3 Consideration of advantages with future technologies
1.4 Narrowband, wideband, broadband
1.4.1 Narrowband (NB)
1.4.2 Wideband (WB)
1.4.3 Broadband (BB)
2 Radio operating environments for PPDR
2.1 Day-to-day operations
2.2 Large emergency and/or public events
2.3 Disasters
3 Requirements
3.1 Applications
3.1.1 General
3.1.2 Application accessibility requirements
3.1.3 Envisioned applications
3.2 User requirements
3.2.1 System requirements
3.2.1.1 Support of multiple applications
3.2.1.2 Simultaneous use of multiple applications
3.2.1.3 Priority access
3.2.1.4 Grade of service (GoS) requirements
3.2.1.5 Coverage
3.2.1.6 Capabilities
3.2.2 Security related requirements
3.2.3 Cost related requirements
3.2.4 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements
3.2.5 Operational requirements
3.2.5.1 Scenario
3.2.5.2 Interoperability
3.2.6 Spectrum usage and management
3.2.7 Regulatory compliance
3.2.8 Planning
Annex 3 Narrowband frequencies for inter-agency coordination and safety and security communications in international humanitarian assistance presently in use
Annex 4 Spectrum requirements for public protection and disaster relief
1 Introduction
2 Methods of projecting spectrum requirements
2.1 Description of the methodology
2.2 Required input data
2.3 Validity of the methodology
2.3.1 Discussion
2.3.2 Validity study
2.4 Critical parameters
2.5 Extrapolated upper limit
3 Results
3.1 Results of estimates of amount of spectrum required by the year 2010 for PPDR
3.2 Discussion of results
Appendix 1 to Annex 4 Methodology for the calculation of public protection and disaster relief terrestrial spectrum requirements
1 Introduction
2 Advanced services
A Spectrum prediction model
B Geographical area
C Operational environments versus service environments
D PPDR population
E Penetration rates
F Traffic parameters
G PPDR quality of service functions
H Calculate total traffic
I Net system capacity
J Spectrum calculations
Examples
Conclusion
Attachment A of Appendix 1 to Annex 4 Comparison of proposed methodology for the calculation of PPDR spectrum requirements to IMT-2000 methodology
Attachment B of Appendix 1 to Annex 4 PPDR Spectrum Requirements Flowchart
Attachment C to Appendix 1 to Annex 4 System capacity calculation examples
1 IMT-2000 net system capacity calculation methodology
Attachment D of Appendix 1 to Annex 4 Example: Public safety and disaster relief population density data
Attachment E of Appendix 1 to Annex 4 Example calculation
Attachment F of Appendix 1 to Annex 4 Example narrowband and wideband calculation summaries
Appendix 2 to Annex 4 PPDR spectrum calculation based on generic city analysis (demographic population)
1 Generic City Approach
2 PPDR categories
3 Spectrum requirements
Annex 5 Existing and emerging solutions to support interoperability for public protection and disaster relief
1 Introduction
2 Existing solutions
2.1 Cross-band repeaters
2.2 Radio reprogramming
2.3 Radio exchange
2.4 Multi-band, multi-mode radios
2.5 Commercial services
2.6 Interface/interconnect systems
3 Emerging technology solutions for PPDR
3.1 Adaptive antenna systems
3.2 Cross-banding
3.3 SDR