ESA TV Schedule 20 Dec 2005
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
20-Dec-05 16:00 – 16:15 GMT
Spot-5 Monitoring the 2004 Tsunami
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 21 December 10:15-10:30 GMT
Replay II: 24 December 11:30-11:45 GMT
Nobody can predict when an Earthquake will strike. The only thing left is disaster mitigation and disaster management, to reduce the number of victims and to help the rescue teams. For both, satellites can contribute a lot, from identifying risk areas to assessing the extent of damage.
This TV Exchange documents how imagery from the French Spot-5 Eartyh observation satellite was used in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami, to establish damage assessments and subsequently direct humanitarian aid to those places in Thailand where it was most urgently needed.
The script will be online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS43129.pdf
A pre-view video clip can be downloaded from http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/space23_tsunami_04112005_wmplow.wmv (Media Player, 3.7 MB) or http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mp4/space23_tsunami_04112005_mpg4.mov (Quicktime 19.1 MB)
This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm
More background information can be found on http://www.spotimage.fr/html/_167_240_241_781_.php.
Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2)
Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite)
SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4
For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.
