Disaster management and mitigation: the telecommunications infrastructure
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Disaster management and mitigation: the telecommunications infrastructure.
Among the most typical consequences of disasters is the near or complete collapse of terrestrial telecommunications infrastructures (especially the distribution network--the 'last mile') and their concomitant unavailability to the rescuers and the higher echelons of mitigation teams. Even when such damage does not take place, the communications overload/congestion resulting from significantly e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Disasters
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0361-3666
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2008.01060.x