Disaster Management / ESA TV Exchanges / 07-03-2003

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

07-Mar-03 09:45 – 10:00 GMT

Disaster Management

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1: 07 March, 19:45-20:00 GMT

Replay 2: 08 March, 10:15-10:30 GMT

Satellites can play an important role in the management of natural and man-made disasters. An international symposium will be held in Brussels on 16 March 2003 and bring togehther the various actors to review the results of the charter on risk management signed by major space agencies, two years ago. This ESA TV Exchange provides an overview of the possibilities space technology offers for disaster mananagement, and recent examples of how it was put at work. These include inter alia the Prestige tanker break-up, Australian forest fires and volcanic eruptions.

The programme comprises of a 7 minute A-roll with split audio (English commentary/international sound) and is complimented by a B-Roll with clean international sound.

The script will be available on the day of transmission as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS28534.pdf.

This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) Service. You can find the complete transmission shcedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Website at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/index

More background information can be found on .

Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13 degrees 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.