REMSAT II Fire and medical (CND)

The objectives of the REMSAT II program are to develop and implement a cost effective end to end system to provide a range of services for emergency management in the fire and flood domains. A secondary objective is to design the system so that it is adaptable to other emergency domains, such as search and rescue, earthquakes and others.

- The key areas being addressed are the portability of the system, the use of earth observation products and an advanced hand held unit. The IMT is being designed as a modular system that can be rapidly deployed by air while providing the functionality of the original system by taking advantage of new technologies developed since the original system was designed. In addition, an emergency telemedicine component is being implemented that will utilize the REMSAT communications infrastructure to provide on-scene personnel with medical consultative expertise from centrally located emergency trauma staff.