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Chapter 19
1. PURPOSE
The ITU-D SG2 Q14 Rapporteur’s Meeting for
Telemedicine hosted by the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications of Japan was held
at the Kokusai Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo on July
3–4, 2008. This meeting featured active discus-
sions on the Statement of Appeal on an Integrated
Information and Communications Network for
Avian Influenza (commonly known as the State-
ment of Appeal on Avian Influenza), which was
finally adopted after incorporating a wide range
of suggestions and after repeated revisions. This
report introduces a background of the events
Isao Nakajima
Tokai University School of Medicine, Japan
Toshihiko Kitano
Tokai University School of Medicine, Japan
Masaaki Katayama
Nagoya University, Japan
Leonid Androuchko
International University in Geneva, Switzerland
Expected Communications
Technology to Track Avian
Infuenza and Related
the Statement of Appeal
by ITU-D SG2 Q14
ABSTRACT
This paper points out some problems of telemetry for wild birds and future technical expectations to pre-
vent Avian Infuenza. For medium to large migratory birds, the data collection system aboard the NOAA
meteorological satellites (the ARGOS system) has been able to map their migratory routes. However,
recommended C/No for Doppler shift will be 54dBHz, while calculated required C/No for 400 bps data
uplink is 36dBHz. The gap between navigation function and data communication will be almost 18 dB.
The bird has to pay this overload. The authors provide a summary of the Statement that was adopted
at the Rapporteurs meeting of the ITU-D SG2 Q14 (telecommunications for eHealth) in July 2008 and
an account of anticipated developments in telecommunication technologies (satellite and RFID) based
on meeting discussions, and strongly recommend the space agency to consider the importance of the
advanced data collection satellite to track small birds.
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2794-9.ch019