national Search and Rescue (SAR) system

Meteorological satellites were also used to carry instruments for search and rescue purposes.

The SAR Convention was aimed at facilitating the development of an international SAR plan, so that, no matter where an accident occurs, the rescue of persons in distress at sea will be coordinated by a SAR organization and, when necessary, by cooperation between neighbouring SAR organizations.

Amendments to the SAR Convention

The International Satellite System For Search and Rescue (COSPAS SARSAT) has provided alerts that have assisted in the rescue of over 17,000 persons in distress in about 5,000 search and rescue events since 1982.

Earthquake response exercises

INSAT is a multi purpose satellite system for telecommunication, television broadcasting, meteorology, disaster management and search and rescue.

Furthermore, the GMS 5 has been newly equipped with search and rescue instrumentation for relay of distress signals on an experimental basis.

The COSPAS SARSAT programme is aimed at satellite assistance in search and rescue of ships, aircraft and land vehicles, anywhere on the globe.

COSPAS SARSAT International Search and Rescue Satellite System

As a result, the development of SAR plans in the 13 areas of the world s oceans, as required by the SAR Convention, has been relatively slow and by 1995 10 years after its entry into force provisional SAR plans had only been drawn up for nine regions.

213. The SAR Convention provides that the delimitation of a search and rescue region is not related to and shall not prejudice the delimitation of any boundary between States.

COSPAS SARSAT International Search and Rescue Satellite System

First United Nations Workshop on the International Search and Rescue Satellite System (COSPAS SARSAT) for African search and rescue points of contact (SPOCS) and the Spanish Mission Control Centre

Second United Nations Workshop on the International Search and Rescue Satellite System for African search and rescue points of contact and the Spanish Mission Control Centre

Other purposes include coastal patrol, medical evacuation and search and rescue operations.

Additionally, there is the possibility of including scientific and search and rescue packages as a payload option.

Guidelines of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group

(b) Enhancing international cooperation in satellite based search and rescue systems, including development of common standards for ship and aircraft locator beacons

212. Work is nearly completed on the establishment of a global SAR plan.

You know the spot and can lead the party to it.

Since teams are provided on the basis of bilateral agreements between affected and responding Governments, it is recommended that responding Governments follow the advice given by the INSARAG secretariat.

C. Regional disaster response preparedness activities

Also for search and rescue applications as well.

(j) Development of COSPAS SARSAT (the Nadezhda satellite).

What it does is it searches to find the hottest spot, it searches again a half an hour later, it searches again a day later, it searches again a month later.

One of the major challenges facing the INSARAG community is to develop a system whereby responding Governments, on the basis of the advice of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team on site and the INSARAG secretariat, stop the deployment of additional international search and rescue teams when they are not required.

(f) Development of COSPAS SARSAT, the international tracking and rescue system

57 150. Strengthening the effectiveness and coordination of international urban search and rescue assistance

This programme is intended to aid research and rescue all over the world.

Stopping the deployment of excess international search and rescue teams

Provisions for the emergency locator transmitter, based on the International Search and Rescue Satellite System (COSPAS SARSAT) programme are being reviewed, and amended SARPs are expected to be completed in the year 2000.

In a totally different area, NOAA announced at the beginning of the calendar year that two new ground stations had been added to the network of satellite search and rescue facilities throughout the United States. Located in Guam and Puerto Rico, they were the final of six new, fully automated installations designed to upgrade the satellite search and rescue system, which helps to bring emergency assistance to mariners, ground based users, and pilots in distress.

1. Stresses the need to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the provision of international urban search and rescue assistance, with the aim of contributing towards saving more human lives

The Nadezhda satellite continued operating within the COSPAS SARSAT international system for tracking and rescuing sea vessels and aircraft in distress.

The Nadezhda satellites continued operating within the COSPAS SARSAT international system for tracking and rescuing sea vessels and aircraft in distress.

209. Another important instrument is the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (the SAR Convention), which was adopted in 1979 to address the lack of uniformity in national organizational plans and the lack of agreed and standardized procedures on a worldwide basis.

Seek Forward

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These will assist national authorities and the international community in improving the quality and timeliness of international urban search and rescue assistance.

Welcoming the efforts of Member States, with facilitation by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and in cooperation with the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group, to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the provision of international urban search and rescue assistance, and in this context noting its resolution 57 150 of 16 December 2002 entitled Strengthening the effectiveness and coordination of international urban search and rescue assistance ,

(g) First United Nations Workshop on International Search and Rescue Satellite System (COSPAS SARSAT) for African Search and Rescue Points of Contact (SPOCs) of the Spanish Mission Control Centre (SPMCC), organized in cooperation with SPMCC of the Government of Spain and ESA

The stations and four others installed in the United States over the preceding year and a half are part of an international satellite search and rescue system known as COSPAS SARSAT (from a Russian acronym meaning Space System for Search of Vessels in Distress and an English one for Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking System).

ICAO continues to coordinate closely with the International Satellite System for Search and Rescue (COSPAS SARSAT) in matters relating to the carriage by aircraft of emergency locator transmitters (ELTs).