Satellites helping to fight Epidemic Disease Spread / ESA TV Exchanges / 08-09-2006

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

08-Sep-06 09:15 – 09:30 GMT

Satellites helping to fight Epidemic Disease Spread

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay2:

8 Sep 15:00-15:15 GMT

9 September 10:30-10:45 GMT

Africa continues to be blighted by epidemics. ESA’s Epidemio Project has brought a new weapon in the battle against such diseases: Satellite observation which gives a detailed picture of their spread and connected conditions.

See also http://www.epidemio.info

Today’s Programme features how this actually works, and the first results of the project, including soundbites by ESA’s Project Leader, Simon Pinnock.

The shot list is posted under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS47433.pdf

A WMV preview file is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/epidemics_28-06-06.wmv

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.esa.int/esaCP/SEM5FINVGJE_index_0.html.

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.