Early Warning Systems

CAP Workshop 2016 Flyer

The 2016 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop will be 23-24 August, in Bangkok, Thailand. The hosts of the 2016 CAP Implementation Workshop are the Asian Institute of Technology and the Sahana Software Foundation. At the Workshop, CAP implementers and associated organizations typically discuss common issues and how best to expand adoption of CAP. Persons

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CAP Workshop 2016

The 2016 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop was 23-24 August, in Bangkok, Thailand. The hosts of this Workshop were the Asian Institute of Technology and the Sahana Software Foundation. CAP Implementation Workshops focus on emergency alerting as enabled by the CAP standard, ITU-T Recommendation X.1303. At the Workshops, implementors of CAP and associated organizations

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Tsunami detection using commercial cargo ships

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) have begun equipping commercial cargo ships with low-cost tsunami sensors to provide real-time early detection data as they move through the North Pacific. The researchers, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are partnering with Matson, Maersk Line and the World

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Universal App: Identifying High Priority Public Warnings

This Guide describes the technique for identifying “high priority public warnings” that is used by the Universal App Program based on official alerts published using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard. “High priority” refers to situations in which people need to act immediately or within the next hour, in response to an extraordinary or significant

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