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.