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John Crowley recently has posted the results of last month's field experiments at Camp Roberts in central California (See his blog post and the attached file http://star-tides.net/files/RELIEF%2010-01%20AAR%20STARTIDES%20v3.pdf).

The November activities continued a most productive partnership with Dr. Ray Buettner and his team that conduct the quarterly RELIEF (Research and Experimentation for Local and Emergency First Responders) events. Since August, John, Ray, and a coalition of participants from the business, NGO (non-governmental organization), PVO (private volunteer organization), academic and defense communities have made tangible progress in areas such as:

- Processing satellite imagery distributed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Conference Participation

STAR-TIDES participated in the AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association) Joint Warfighting conference in Virginia Beach from May 12-14th. The display included representatives from each of the infrastructure sets (photos posted separately), and introduced new concepts for rapidly accessible situational awareness, including precision imagery support to agriculture, that could have significant value to stressed populations.

The past several months have been a time of exceptional activity for STAR-TIDES. We’ve had demonstrations at conferences and exercises in the US, Central
America and Europe, supported real world contingencies ranging from the
Canadian Arctic to Myanmar, completed six months of exposure testing
for some types of shelters and increased emphasis on analyses of
different infrastructures, communications equipment and “sense-making”
approaches. Most importantly, the STAR-TIDES network now has grown to over 400 members.